Sunday Reading
...A Very Still Life ReclaimUC: Mapping student debt "[M]uch of the meal plan cost does not go for an individual’s food. Colleges use the money to shore up their balance...
Sunday Reading
...of Steven Salaita Queer Black Studies Now Big Data and the‘Physics’ of Social Harmony ReclaimUC: Video: tear gas attack at UC Berkeley (1969) The hunger crisis in America's universities L.A....
Sunday Reading
...Arabic maqams and Persian dastgahs Indian rock bands of the 1960s T.E. Lawrence's visit to Kerala ReclaimUC: The UC Berkeley scientist who took on a leading herbicide manufacturer The grad...
Circle of Presence
...Altered photograph of Murray Kempton, via On a recent Sunday, I opened up my Twitter feed to find Sherry Turkle getting pummeled for an opinion piece in the...
Breakfast in Bedlam
...to feed lunatics anything to break their nightly fast. They were allowed only supper (called lunch today) and dinner. And these meals had to be bland and meager so as...
Chestnut Economics
...family of five could look forward to three hours of such work -- and this simply to prepare enough to feed themselves. The drudgery of the chestnut harvest nonetheless failed...
Free to Choose A or B
...with us and turns them into an entertainment product meant to make Facebook money. Facebook's excuse for filtering our feed is that users can't handle the unfiltered flow of all...
All Our Little Lives
...banalities because they don’t know yet that people won’t. Your Twitter feed isn’t complete until you follow a teen, and you aren’t entertaining until you start acting like one....
The Virtual Watchers
...including a bar in Australia that kept a 24-hour feed for its customers. However, the most astonishing discovery was a Facebook group that gathered some of the volunteering citizens that...
The Algorithm and the Watchtower
...teach them (because we were taught) to behave as if visual surveillance is inescapable. We do so regardless of the degree to which actual watchers actually see and the extent...
Reform School
...he’s hearing from a child. Schools don’t teach these kind of skills. His command of knowledge was colored by a sense of immediate responsibility, not just for himself but for...
Not this. More that!
...Lorde, as I keep learning, is deeply pedagogical, deeply interested in how we learn from experience, and, especially, how doing and feeling teach us to know. “Uses of the Erotic”...
Epistemology Kills
...the absence of urgent emotion. The title of this book suggests that urgent emotion is at its center—that the novel has something to teach us about what it’s like to...
Sunday Reading
...their jobs, but Teach for America is expanding "Yik Yak felt different. It wasn’t just a new tool for the school’s bullies; it was also an equalizer." Prison labor in...
Sunday Reading
...and the Afropolitan Debate Jacob Remes: Photographing a family torn apart by the tsunami Has Japan Learned Anything from the 2011 Disaster? Fukushima evacuees in their own words, five years...
Sunday Reading
...Jacob Remes: Context for Japan's snap election today "Racism, in this construct, is the result of ignorance rather than malice or structural inequalities." The inside/outside game in New...