Sunday Reading

L.E. Long:

What is yours / How to get it
"First, placing the onus on women to fix themselves up is problematic to the core."
Dear Sheryl Sandberg: "Leaning In" Doesn't Fix What's Actually Broken for Working Women
Crisis and domestic work (On self-reduction, shoplifting, and other forms of gender war) "In fact, while for the male worker, his reproduction and reintegration is always assured, the woman is the only worker for whom these moments [of reproduction and reintegration] are not assured: she must, in practice, self-reproduce as labor-power throughout her entire life, whether within the house or outside it."
"...clear instances of violent acts for private ends, the very embodiment of piracy."
“Have prisons and jails become the mass housing of our time?”
"We don't want money. We want (OPD Officer Miguel Masso, who murdered Alan Blueford) off the streets and we want the rest of them like him off the streets, who think they have the right to just shoot people down."
I Didn't Do Anything - The Fight for Alan Blueford (video)
Against Hired Guns: A six-part series on policing and violence in Oakland "In our attempts to curb police violence solely through the legal system, we give power back to the very forces that criminalize, kill, harass, corral and incarcerate people. We willingly return power to the structure responsible for the violence in the first place, replicating the system of domination that we are trying to fight."
Bird's eye view of Oakland, 1900
The Immediate Need For Emotional Justice

Kitabet:

The Biblical Pseudo-Archaeologists Pillaging the West Bank
an unsettling willingness on part of Israel's Civil Administration to grant access to fringe applicants like Price
The Plague Years, in Film and Memory
Cranking up the Volume: Music as a Tool of Torture
The Road (and Rail) to Justice (on the transportation justice movement)
Archive Fever: A Visit to the Denver Public Library with Wendel Cox
featuring a map of lost roads, and some of the marvelous Sanborn fire insurance maps
The Rape of Petty Officer Blumer
Parents Get on Board With Turkey's LGBT Movement
Landscapes of Dispossession
For northern and northern-educated transplants, and even urban southerners like me, the ruins of New Orleans, like the ramshackle town in Beasts, represented the hope of escaping capitalism’s constrains.
Parícutin: “Here Is Something New and Strange”
What Was at Stake at Brooklyn College?
Let Us Now Praise Garbage Men
on the new book by Robin Nagle, anthropologist-in-residence at the NYC Department of Sanitation
Syria: Sectarian narratives promote troubling agendas, not justice
Pfc. Bradley E. Manning's Statement for the Providence Inquiry
Anthropomics says it all, re: Napoleon Chagnon, the NAS & the NYT
It’s not that anthropology is against evolution, it’s that anthropology is against the perversion of evolution in support of idiosyncratic social theories, which recurs every generation.

Kerim Friedman:

Frank Pasquale:

Sponsored content without end, amen.
Spamiversity welcomes all.
Ideas have consequences: an interview with Adam Curtis.
Bunuel's gateless gate (via Interfluidity).
Academic freedom in the US and Singapore.
"Federal court filings show some LSU officials were determined to curb LSU professor Ivor van Heerden’s public criticisms of federal engineers’ design and construction of New Orleans levees that collapsed and drowned hundreds more than seven years ago."

Bint Battuta:

Jacob Remes:

ReclaimUC: