Jamie Roberts

Feb 2, 2025 | scroll.in | Jamie Roberts

Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961) is a satirical antiwar novel about an American bomber squadron stationed in Italy in the Second World War. It exposes the horrors of war, but, even more, it is about the inept and immoral military bureaucracy and the grim relationships between men and women within the war. Its barbs still strike home, even in times of relative peace. This is because Heller was not just writing against war.

Jan 16, 2025 | theconversation.com | Jamie Roberts

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literatureJoseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961) is a satirical antiwar novel about an American bomber squadron stationed in Italy in the second world war. It exposes the horrors of war, but, even more, it is about the inept and immoral military bureaucracy and the grim relationships between men and women within the war. Its barbs still strike home, even in times of relative peace. This is because Heller was not just writing against war.

Jul 4, 2024 | thetimes.com.au | Jamie Roberts

World Written by Jamie Q Roberts, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Sydney Quoting The Art of War, an ancient Chinese war manual dating from the 5th century BCE, has become a cliché. It is, alas, the hallmark of teen edgelords[1], management gurus[2] and, as one of my students informed me, pseudo-intellectual boyfriends. Because of all this, the book has become part of the endless layers of irony that are the bedrock of internet culture. Various memes both...

Jan 23, 2024 | routledge.com | Jamie Roberts

Table of Contents Book DescriptionCritics' Reviews1st EditionBy Jamie Q RobertsCopyright 2024218 Pages4 B/W IllustrationsbyRoutledge218 Pages4 B/W IllustrationsbyRoutledge Roberts presents a rigorous and accessible assessment of the Intellectual Dark Web’s origins, shared philosophy, cultural importance, and limitations. Since the mid-2010s, the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) has been an unprecedented cultural and intellectual phenomenon.