- Islam, Vodou, and the Making of the Afro-Atlantic
- Wenzhou’s Italian Uncles
- Moroccan Tape Stash
- Structural Violence as Political Experience in Palestine: An Archaeology of the Past in the Present
- Inventing Ethnicity; Imagining Agriculture: The "Tribes" of Ham and the "Primitive" Crops of Africa
- Turkish Knockoff Toothpaste, Legal Imperialism, and Racist Product Marketing in 1920s America
- Iraqi Maqam: Classical and Traditional Music of Iraq
- City, Space, Power: Lahore’s Architecture of In/Security
- The Book of Collateral Damage
- On Animism, Modernity/Colonialism, and the African Order of Knowledge: Provisional Reflections
- Looking for Revolution in Kuwait
- Fear and Forgetting: The 1962 internment of Indian-Chinese
- No Zombies in Gaza: Horror in Arabic Cinema
- Your multicultural nation is not necessarily mine
- Ani Mi Levanon: Smiling Through Hebrew Class
- “What thrill does one imagination hold, after all, when we can program a bot to voice the imagination of everyone who’s ever uploaded their words onto the web?”
- “What happened at Zuccotti Park was not wholly unlike what had happened a few months earlier on Delicious and Google Reader”
- “What happens when, as a result of social media, vigilantism takes on a new form?”
- “In event of power or Internet loss, just shout 140-character comments out window”
- “There aren’t enough terms of service to manage all the publics and space in the world, or the people who live in them”
- “When disaster strikes, make sure to bring your sandbags of skepticism to Twitter”
- “Death is denied when a Facebook activist can never prove it”
- “the [cyberspace] metaphor constrains, enables, and structures very distinct ways of imagining”
- “a dualistic offline/online worldview can depoliticise and mask very real and uneven power relationships”
- “sending photographers out to purposely shoot Instagrams is journalistic equivalent of stringing together an essay from a bunch of tweets”
- “Internet meme costumes are a cool way to share a cool joke or a story”
- “All of the clocks in lower Manhattan were stopped at 8:37”
- “It’s through such combination of humans and bots that memes emerge”
- “The conceptual leap from dogs to drones is shorter than you might think”
- “Calling Iceland’s constitutional draft “crowdsourced” is wrong. As in, not right, factually inaccurate, and untrue”
- “New Yorkers Have Found the Strength to Wait in Line for an iPad Mini”
- “the internet’s like music. I don’t like working without it”
- “The physical, dead tree “book” is the default; the “ebook” is the upstart Other that is defined by what it isn’t”
- Vulnerable seniors post-Sandy.
- Micro-fragility, macro-resilience.
- Thinking about property.
- Morozov on techno-authoritarians.
- Invisible ecosystems.
- How ordinary people promote the progress of the arts and sciences.
- The insatiable search for meaning.
- The seven demands of the Hungarian Revolution, October 1956
- Race, class, privilege, bodies, policing, education.
- Expect to Be Lied to in Japan
- What else can you do with a history PhD besides history?
- A Hurricane's Inequality
- Marianne McCune visits public housing on the Lower East Side, where there is no light, water, or elevators.
- Alex Koppleman goes to a different LES complex and finds "Sandy's Forgotten."
- Manhattan's "Zone A" evacuation zone is nearly entirely landfill.
- It's not just UC Berkeley's Chancellor Birgeneau who's gone at the end of the year -- UCPD Chief Mitch Celaya's out too. "Under his leadership, the UCPD has distinguished itself as an exceptionally cohesive and professional campus police force." That's true! But somehow the notice of Chief Celaya's departure left out a number of his accomplishments, including his officers' distinguished use of batons, exceptionally cohesive use of rubber bullets, and professional use of pepper spray on student protesters. And of course there was his distinguished commitment to transparency, his exceptionally cohesive policy toward journalists and his professional defense of free speech.
- On the props, a great indicator of what to vote against: California ballot measures draw free-spending billionaires
- A zombie is a slave forever (cf. Cal bros "lynch" zombie)
- Grad students to the barricades!
- Frankenyale
- Some data on administrative bloat: "[Since 1987] the number of tenure-track faculty per 100 students at public research universities grew by 3 percent, while the number of part-time faculty per 100 students grew by 60 percent. Meanwhile, executive and managerial staff at those institutions increased by 9 percent per 100 students and noninstructional professional staff grew by 57 percent per 100 students." And on tuition and student loans: "In-state tuition at public four-year universities . . . rose 4.8 percent from last year to the 2012-13 academic year. . . . That’s more than triple the inflation rate during the last academic year, 1.4 percent."
- Occupy's afterlife: A dispatch from New York's dark zones
- Kindergarten/Cops; "Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police"; Notes on the limits and potentials of responding to police violence