Sunday Reading

Kitabet:

• "Unbeknownst to them, people in Eugene, Oregon, in 1965, were helping to test the aerodynamic flexibility of two buildings that had not yet been announced and that would soon come to dominate the skyline of New York City...."
• "Ngai claims that the zany, the cute, and the interesting are the categories that speak best to the constitution of “a historically specific kind of aesthetic subject: ‘us.’”
• "Welcome to the Sanaa Sheraton! It’s now officially part of an expanded US Embassy estate that some are calling Yemen’s “Green Zone"
• "if I were an Iraqi, that would be my street—that’s where my bookstore would be, this would be my cultural community."
• "They began arriving in the 1870’s from what was then the Ottoman province of Syria, most leaving behind home villages set in mountains much higher than Manhattan’s not-so-hilly terrain."
• "In Martin’s “non-Anglo” cultures, and in Orientalist literature more generally, the layers are collapsed.  The individuals don’t move within their society, rather, they are fully-formed instances of their society."
• "Many homes later, I forgot that I knew how to sew my own buttons."
• Photographs after Pessoa: "peripatetic intersections between man, ghost, and the geometric city"
• "To cast our bodies into the city like ballots, affirmative votes for our place in this city, protests against the default monopoly of men over space. This is my city, we are saying, and I am here."
• "I stood in what was a little girl’s bedroom but was now a sniper’s nest."

T. F. Charlton:

• In light of discussion of the Delhi gang rape and purity culture as rape culture, some good reflections on sexual violence and modesty/purity culture in the U.S.:

1. Modesty, Body Policing and Rape Culture: Connecting the Dots
2. A world without consent
3. US media portrays rape culture as a foreign problem. Here’s why they’re wrong
4. The privilege of purity
5. The Body I Have: On learning to love one's body and body shaming as rape culture

• A Theory of Violence: In Honor of Kasandra, CeCe, Victoria, Savita and Anonymous
• No longer anonymous: Her Name was Jyoti Singh Pandey
• Digital Dualism And The Glitch Feminism Manifesto
• Realistic Girls and Fantastic Boys? Middle Grade Fantasy, Realistic Fiction, and the Great Gender Divide
• Let's Queer the NYT 'Debate' About Women and Makeup
• Roe v. Wade and a Black Nationalist Womanist Writer
• Trickle-down Feminism
• Idle No More links and resources
• David Phan's suicide: anti-Asian racism, homophobia, and bullying

nathan jurgenson

• "the direct facial and self-valorizing imperatives of Facebook, the endless memetic re-postings of tumblr, fashion blogs, and so on"
• "We’ve become better at choreographing ourselves and showing our best sides to the screen"
• "Forget about bowling alone: In Toffler's future, we'd all be telecommuting together"
• "On Snapchat, sexual identity isn’t cemented through a series of boxes & menus"
• "I am terrified that everything I believe about photography is over because of the computer & easy manipulation"
• "Is digital labour work that transcends capitalism and/or is it subsumed to capital?"
• "On Facebook, women were still expected to expose themselves and yet to remain chaste"
• "Internet dating destroyed my sense of myself as someone I both know and understand and can also put into words"
• "Speaking and writing both survived the print revolution, and print will survive the Internet revolution"

ReclaimUC:

• Stokely Carmichael, "Black power address at UC Berkeley" (1966)
• 2012 in review: Major higher ed trends
• A moment of dreaming about higher education
• "Armed Teacher Training Program" launches in 15 states
• Even in states with no budget problems, public colleges continue to face austerity
• Spartan helotry, on austerity and higher education in Greece
• Hiring spree fattens college bureaucracy—and tuition
• Seville's squatters: No light, no water, no fear
• The pre-history of the black bloc
• What might a world without work look like?

L.E. Long:

• "Forget being inspirational, disabled femmes want to be everything." - Musings from a Queercrip Femme Man of Color
• Crunk Feminist: A theory of violence
• War in Europe?
• THE SKIN-CLOTH: Race, Fashion, Hygiene, Writing, and Embodied Movement Through Space
• A world without work
• If a rendition falls in the EU, will anyone listen?
• Fewer California inmates in solitary
• When your Facebook is subpoenaed, this is what they get
• More subpoenas for an animal rights grand jury in California (s/o to the window of the holdout!)
• "Helped me teach my son about the Imperial forces" (read the first review)
• ARE KERMIT AND CHRISTIAN BALE THE SAME PERSON?

Kerim:

• A panoptical regime of surveillance and assessment to ensure ‘the authenticity of being happy.'
• Why Are People More Scared of Facebook Violating Their Privacy than Washington?
• Trickle-Down Feminism
• America's Real Criminal Element: Lead
• China's Great Famine: the true story
• Savage Minds Annual Highlights
• Hats and Doctors
• Frustrations of an Asian American Whedonite
• Racism in 2012: Year End Review