Sunday Reading

Kitabet:

• An Institutionalized Disregard for Palestinian Life
• Darwin on St. Helena and the Birth of a Volcano
• Neymar and Race in Brazil
• The Banlieue Archipelago
• Resisting Resilience
• A Brief History of the Humanities Postdoc
• Sexual Assault and the State in Egypt
• Ahmet Hamdi Tanp?nar in Translation
• The Organ Detective: A Career Spent Uncovering a Hidden Global Market in Human Flesh
• The Slow Death of Turkish Higher Education
• Gecekondu chic? Informal settlements and urban poverty as cultural commodity
• What Was Left Behind: Music of the Ottoman Empire
• Repetition and Death in the Colony: On the Israeli Attacks in Gaza

Jacqui Shine:

• Commodity feminism 
• Laughing all the way to the potato salad 
• Lattes and class
• The Weeping Time 
• Virginia Woolf and privacy 
• Anne Hollander, dead at 83 
• The unknown history of Latino lynchings 
• Kareem Abdul Jabbar in defense of YA 

Kerim Friedman:

• On the Gaza Border
• Palestine 1896
• The occupation will last forever, Netanyahu clarifies
• How Politics and Lies Triggered an Unintended War in Gaza
• Modi Aide Accused of Murders to Lead India Ruling Party
• Job security for teachers helps everyone
• China's rulers team up with notorious 'White Wolf' of Taiwan
• The N.S.A.'s Spying on Muslim-Americans
• Iraq Illusions
• How to Bring Back the Nigerian Schoolgirls, Three Months On
• Judith Butler reviews ‘The Death Penalty’ by Jacques Derrida
• Orient(al[ism]) in East Asian languages
• Taiwan busts racing pigeon kidnapping ring
• On the one hundred and thirty six colours of race in Brazil
• On the "neoliberal rhetoric of harm"

/kaw·re?d?/:

• The Moral Economy of Settler Colonialism
• The Architecture Of Abortion
• What does a city for women look like?
• Sexual assault and the Egyptian state: A history of violence
• The Military-Literary Complex
• On the right to be forgotten
• Colonising the Clouds : Infrastructure Territory and The Geopolitics of The Stacks
• Italy's underground mosques
• Why Do Vampires Speak Arabic?
• The Cruel Economy of Soccernomics: Capital, Players, and Football in the 21st Century 
• Infrastructural and Militarized Cartography of Gaza 

Jacob Remes:

• Facebook, between the postal service and television producers
• Against the employer-based welfare system
• Nobody likes to be occupied.
• "In the Jewish state, there is pity and humane feelings only for Jews....The Jewish state is only for Jews."
• Hindutva is "an attempt to standardise, essentialise, codify and systematise a vast universe of incommensurate beliefs, practices, rituals, theologies and narratives—to render Hinduism modern and modular."
• Can Francis handle the Church?
• Holding TEPCO responsible for Fukushima's suicide deaths
• Shin-Bijutsukai, a Japanese design magazine from 1902

Reclaim UC:

• Wall Street as cause and beneficiary of skyrocketing university tuition
• G.I. bill funds flow to for-profit colleges that fail state aid standards
• A brief history of the humanities postdoc
• Student housing gets swanky and investors salivate
• Survey finds 40 percent of colleges not investigating sexual assaults
• Can't stop, won't stop: campus riots, 2013-2014
• The military-literary complex
• Reportback from Murrieta
• On the "neoliberal rhetoric of harm"
• "The rockets being fired from Gaza are a form of non-violent protest"
• No, Israel does not have the right to self-defense in international law against occupied Palestinian territory
• "[S]ome lives remain abstract, Palestinian lives (but also—see Murrieta or Chicago—black and brown lives generally) remain, in the press, in some minds, invisible and without value."
• The crisis of my friends

Nathan Deuel:

• "Move over, luxury LIC high-rise condos and Brooklyn brownstones, homeless shelters have become hot commodities”
• "He can't be alone outside after dark, needs permission to walk through his neighborhood or go to a bowling alley.”
• "Some of the dead snakes were little more than skeletons.Others, only recently dead, were covered with flies & maggots”
• "My first instinct...I ran and I ran...My baby was already dead. He was dead already...dead, dead.”
• "For all his humor, and smarts, and bylines, you know exactly what he wants”
• "Most of all, we know how cheap your suit is. Ew, why so cheap?"
• "Former frontman of the Impotent Sea Snakes tried to expand hobby of raising lemurs and monkeys into a private zoo.”
• "That's my cousin. And that's a big-ass gun," says Nader. "He lives in my home town in the mountains." 
• "I don't know how long Cheap Trick can keep this up and I don't care…go see them before it's too late.”
• "We've got a rat count. We've killed hundreds of rats. We recycle stuff that otherwise would go to the dump." 
• “A woman [also] passed out on the course and woke up with dried blood on her face, but did not know where it came from" 
• "I felt the shark biting into me and I was like, 'Oh my God, this is it, I'm going to die.”

And from our friends at Brainstorm:

And Jalada: