Sunday Reading
...the perils of reasoning from lexicon to culture Light as Image and Concept in the Qur’an and other Islamic Sources Why pray? Actually Aisha: Last Words of Rohith Vemula 'we...
The Postmodernity of Big Data
...Burnham, “in an advanced technological culture the most important artist best succeeds by liquidating his position as artist vis-a-vis society.” Thus the conceptualists turned to the transmission of information as...
Muhammad Ali, We Still Love You
...Mohaiemen ([email protected]) explores borders, wars, and belonging through essays and film. His essays include “Fear of a Muslim Planet: Islamic roots of hip-hop” (Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture,...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: The sanctuary campus movement and local points of resistance A call for sanctuary Beyond sanctuary cities/campuses: stop deportations by any means A map of sanctuary campuses "It is...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: Students at UC Berkeley turn the tables on a racist professor 96 hours of action concludes with successful campus shut down Students seeking to redesignate restrooms as...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: UC's new methodology for determining the cost of education is absurd Can UC answer these 5 big questions about its spending? No confidence in the University of...
Sunday Reading
...in Gujarat schools Violence outside Paris synagogue falsely attributed to anti-Semitism How Opposite Energy Policies Turned The Fukushima Disaster Into A Loss For Japan And A Win For Germany This...
Quakes and Ale: Comparing Cultures in Catastrophe
...heartland, St. Louis has a ferociously autochthonous culture; nonnatives risk suffocation. Many St. Louisans never leave the metro area. So insular are they, in fact, that they couldn’t even be...
Cap and Trade
...temperature and rainfall and cracks in the forest and coordination between trees and fungi and supply chains coming out of Japan into Oregon. In the dominant ways of thinking about...
Bound to Black
The reemergence of chloroquine scratches a persistent imperial itch for biological race
Little Big Eater Girl
...contest,” I say. “It’s for a Japanese TV show called the Big Eaters World Championships, and it’s the final round between Team America and Team Japan.” I know this because...
This Week in Art Crime
...reach the sign. Police are thought to have identified Urakawa from the video. Abraham earlier told his Facebook followers he was in Japan over the New Year’s holidays. Osaka police...
The Dating Game: Compliments, Part III
...out: Compliments between romantic partners frequently differ from compliments given to friends. The role and intent of compliments are always contextual, and nothing provides a broader context than culture. Intimate...
Sunday Reading
...Peer Review in the Age of Adjunctification “The soldiers had just left and my grandmother’s house looked battered and bruised.” Seamus Heaney’s Last Poem ReclaimUC: After the freeze: UC...
Sunday Reading
...Alexandria villa facing demolition The difficulties faced by Pashtun singers ReclaimUC: "[T]he whiter the school, the more diversity depicted in the brochures" Dude, where's the race in your class analysis...
Reading Katehi: The Pepper Spray Chancellor
...glorified fundraiser and figurehead -- seem legitimate as sovereign authority. As ReclaimUC puts it, the problem of outsiders comes to assume an enormous amount of space in the administrative mind:...