Sunday Reading

Kitabet:

• After the Ceasefire: Searching for Accountability
• “The patients’ case files read like a people’s history of Iraq.”
• Farmyard Geomorphology
• What Can Forensic Architecture Reveal About the Conflict in Gaza?
• “Djerba’s promising fight against irresponsible garbage disposal brings to the table several environmental issues that the Tunisian government has been ignoring for years.”
• Mountaintop Rescue (on the archaeology of a coal miners’ uprising)
• “I’m a writer. I’ve got cancer. Am I going to write about it?”
• Abounaddara’s Take on Images in the Syrian Revolution
• “Politics is a vey bad investment in Egypt.”
• Seismology on the High Seas
• “a different genealogy of the entanglement between architecture standards and statistical methods of measuring the social body”
• The Locations of Homophobia
• The Yellowstone Volcano Goes Viral
•  “tear gases are not merely irritants: they are nerve gases that activate pain-sensing nerves, particularly in the eyes.”
• Antiblackness is a Theory
• “Settlement through excavation is the same as settlement through building.”
• Policing Civility
• “Like buses, some small earthquakes show regularity in their occurrence.” 
• Septemvriana: The ?stanbul Pogrom of September 6-7, 1955

Kerim Friedman:

• "Race Reconciled" Re-Debunks Race
• Ebola “Fear Mongering” Critiqued by Medical Anthropologist
• Policing Empire
• "The Economics of the Colonial Cringe"
• Leviathan
• A Journey Into The Mind of Watts
• The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson
• Why Vandana Shiva is so right and yet so wrong
• How Memorizing “$19.05” Can Help You Outsmart the MTA
• Nassim "Black Swan" Taleb Busted For Exaggerating Returns
• A Dog Dressed Up as a Giant Mutant Spider Terrifies People, Causing Them To Run for Their Lives
• American Anthropological Association Calls For Repair of Hiring Practices At U Illinois
• Map: U.S. schools remain "highly segregated"
• The Potential Condescension of “Informed Consent”
• Palestinians Live What Israelis Fear

ReclaimUC:

• Interview with Robert Meister on the UC system and public higher education
• "…feminist currents in the student uprisings at the University of California…"
• Students at the barricades
• Policing civility, from the Free Speech Movement to the Salaita Affair
• Reading the Salaita papers
• The white supremacist professor at University of Illinois
• Where Zionism meets neoliberalism at US universities
• Education professor shows standardized tests are bullshit, standardized test company that funds his department retaliates
• Lacrosse as a proxy for rich, white, male students who can pay full tuition
• Yale's tax-exempt New Haven property worth $2.5 billion
• Investors cash in on off-campus housing
• The new brutalism in higher education
• "Penn’s structural function, like those of all educational institutions, is to transform students into precisely the kind of subject…needed to keep the exploitative gears of class society turning"
• #FergusonSyllabus: talking and teaching about police violence
• The politics workers' inquiry

Nathan Deuel:

• "The two countries have been in a formal state of war since Israel was created in 1948.”
• "A casual exhalation can send water shooting 30 feet high from out of a blue whale's blowhole, and their hearts weigh as much as a car.”
• “The Islamic State is coming” has been spray-painted on the walls of two churches in north Lebanon
• The other officer, holding a flashlight on Amarel, asks his name.  “I don’t have to tell you that.”
• “I am very disturbed,” Brewer said. “I don’t think there is anything positive about finding a monocled cobra.”
• "Local residents were advised to keep a close watch on their pets and small children indoors.”
• "Once ISIS crosses the borders, I will be taking the first plane to Istanbul. Everybody will try to leave.”
• "Eunice Berman calls all her peacocks Jackie.” 
• "It's not always easy to live in a place that’s trying to be paradise.”
• "Sometimes in a restaurant I’ll see my waiter’s face reflected on the backside of a soup spoon.”