- Hip Hop from ’48 Palestine: Youth, Music, and the Present/Absent
- The Boring Russians of Dubai
- Bengali Harlem
- "In one of the darkest moments in Palestinian lived history, a 'dream-world' has somehow emerged in the West Bank"
- Persian Underground: Garage Rock, Beat and Psychedelic Sounds from the Iranian 60s & 70s Scene
- Why I left Berlin for Karachi
- The Coldscape, "this vast, distributed artificial winter that has reshaped our entire food system"
- Bil?d al-Welsh (Land of the Welsh): Muslims in Cardiff, South Wales
- Uncertified Copies: On Samizdat
- Why Israel Desires to be Hated by Palestinians
- Sultan Mahmud II's love of European music
- Oops, Your Jahiliyya Is Showing: Exposing the Convert Party Girl
- The Iconography of A Camel Fight
- Taking a Trip Through Ethnic Lane - Cultural and Racial Voyeurism and The White Gaze
- Trap Streets
- The Tunnels of Gaza
- Catastrophism: Steven Shapin reviews "The Pseudoscience Wars"
- Hurricane Sandy Hits Little Syria: Worrying about Buildings and Brothers
- After the Flood: Old New York Catches Up With The Anthropocene
- Netting the Sublime
- Twilight People: Subways are For Sleeping
- Popular Science: on the seductive promise of phrenology and its progeny
- Maqwa, Ahweh: An Etude in Café
- Kushinagar: Joe Sacco reports on Dalit struggles in Uttar Pradesh
- Turkey's Anti-Evolutionist Showgirls
- Soviet Tourism Posters of the 1930s
- Stop posting that meaningless garbage about property rights to your Facebook (or just delete your account, already)
- "School to prison pipeline goes both ways, I guess."
- The same paper publishing thoughtful pieces on how pre-trial incarceration can ruin lives also (among others) broadly published the names and faces of twenty people who have yet to be convicted of anything
- How to cook for between 10 and 250, after a disaster and/or over the holidays
- "American freedom" and racism against Asians in Red Dawn
- A history lesson from 1976 on falling off the fiscal cliff: Developing and underdeveloping New York: The 'fiscal crisis' and the imposition of austerity
- Hating Chris Brown isn't racist until you make it racist
- Computer security experts go hard against Weev's conviction and its implications
- In my neighborhood, gentrification and gang-injunctions go hand-in-hand
- How do we count the bodies?
- "Economic arguments matter at the margins, but at its core, the debate over the death penalty is never really about dollars and cents—rather, it turns on our idea of what it means to be a human being." - Why did the death penalty repeal fail in California?
- Goldman Calls. Is Oakland Bluffing?
- We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community!
- On History and Irony
- Be A Computer Literate, 1977
- Queer Eyes, Full Hearts: Reading Ryan Murphy through Susan Sontag
- When Kids (Literally) Played With Fire
- The Google A/B tester bible; what regulation might look like.
- The Sark Lark that didn't bark.
- The four types of oligarchies.
- Diagnosing in the dark; conflicted authors.
- Blindness & IP law.
- Granny pods; the next steps.
- Kidney for iPhone & iPad; $40,000 price floor proposed.
- Arbitrary droning & Pentagon's remedies.
- On financiers' motivation.
- High speed on the hog.
- “Why is it that we can’t find any money for more faculty, but there seems to be an almost unlimited budget for administrators?”
- Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois on the commodification of education, socialism, the Quebec national project, and his future.
- Is a central banker more like a CEO or more like a politician?
- Climate change will make storm surges worse (and on top of already higher sea levels and already eroded shores)
- Even so, we don't need to worry about climate change-related storms as much as we need worry about climate change-related droughts.
- Life in the Katrina Diaspora
- “I have promised myself that one day, I will again eat my own rice grown on my ancestral farm.”
- Shepard Fairey: “disconnecting images of important struggles from their roots” since 1989.
- Guerrilla urbanists paint their own sidewalks, cross walks, and bike lanes in Mexico City.
- Immigrant Farm Workers, the Hidden Part of New York's Local Food Movement
- From Chilean socialist cybernetics to David Cameron’s iPad
- The politics of algorithms
- 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
- “Space Shuttle” or “Space Clipper”?
- Is Gaza Outside Israel?
- School desks against mass incarceration
- Judge sentencing entrapped Cleveland “terrorists” calls sentencing guidelines “grotesque”
- Charles Simic on NYC and memory
- On the Slovenian Damien Hirst
- Jacobin piece on ecstatic festivals
- The little-recounted state of Bedoins in the Sinai
- "The Specter of Non-Obvious Warfare", from RAND
- The rise of radical nationalism in Poland
- Middleclass attention on NYC public housing
- James Bridle on the color green (four different ones)
- 3D Printing vs. Mass Production
- A book review of a history of alchemy
- The Role of Social Media in Political Protest (an actual academic study!)
Me:
- The Moral Map of the United States, 1854
- What matters and what doesn't: open thoughts on academia
- Everyone Gets Popped
- The Salman Rushdie Case
- The Dead Heart of the Living Tree: Lincoln, Pragmatism, and Liberal Democracy
- Fake a Gerhard Richter Painting
- Why Stephen Greenblatt is Wrong — and Why It Matters
- Quick Thoughts on the Significance of the November 2012 Palestine UN Bid
- Cliff Notes
- Bradley Manning: how keeping himself sane was taken as proof of madness
- Hey, Bartender: Dissertation Actualities and Atrocity Stories
- The Invisible Occupation
- Chinua Achebe At 82: “We Remember Differently”
- UC administrators apparently believe it was "good design" and not the massive student uprising and occupation movement of 2009-2010 that led the state to restore $848 million in funding to the UC in 2010. How much money did they dump into designing this awful new logo?
- How to legally buy a public official: UC Berkeley's new chancellor, Nicholas Dirks, will make $50,000 a year more than his predecessor, paid for by private donors. On the day of his confirmation, students occupied Eshleman Hall in defense of multicultural student spaces.
- California community college administrators remove critical student government president from office
- The troubling dean-to-professor ratio
- Education, skills, and the servant economy
- Escalating delinquency rates make student loans look like the next subprime; Student debt bubble officially pops as 90+ day delinquency rates goes parabolic
- California school districts face huge debt on risky bonds
- Sketchy for-profit universities getting into the great scam of NCAA Division I athletics
- Housing speculation, student debt, fees and dispossession: A 21st-century love story
- States, counties, and cities are propping up the private sector to the tune of $80 billion a year
- Austerity in uniform
- The pessimism of time and the paradoxes facing the left
- Ten theses on the U.S. racial order
- "my favorite twitters share a sense of wonder expressed as comedy of the bizarre"
- "”microfame” is a structure of feeling for coping with mandatory requirements to construct identity online"
- "Does Web 3.0 come after Web 2.0?"
- "A sociological analysis must not conceive of algorithms as abstract, technical achievements"
- “We’re gonna introduce the mapping stuff so you can stalk people"
- "I wondered whether we would all thrive in an atmosphere that so insistently merges productivity & sociability"
- "all of my digital masks are equally me and that all of my digital ghosts mean me no harm"
- "Kickstarter cultivates the illusion that when you use its fundraising tools, you are opting out of wage labor"
- "Like-addled Facebook users will share anything no matter how obviously untrue it is"
- "social media has given us many more canvases on which to paint our faux humility"
- "nobody wants to listen to the sound of somebody trying to be cool on the internet"