Sunday Reading
...campaigns teach China's new ghost city-dwellers how to behave ReclaimUC: The state funding sleight-of-hand Unionizing solidarity with Palestine Ask not what your country can do for you but what Coursera...
Kenyan Somali, Somali in Kenya, Kenya in Somalia
...those framed as creating or, in this case, bearing terror in their very identities, histories, cultures, and relationships. To be Somali in Kenya now is to be a terrorist, to...
Specimen Days: Human Zoos at the 1904 World’s Fair
...fair’s Department of Physical Culture, Sullivan had a leading role in the creation of the 1904 Olympics, which were taking place in St. Louis, and was himself a former athlete....
Feminist Anthropology Part II
...understandings of human culture, anthropologists have avoided imposing ethical standards on ethnographic communities. Notions of morality are not universal and often depend upon the religious, social, and cultural milieu of...
You'll Never See The Northern Lights
...culture that—however latent it may be—a dystopian neo-noir still has to presume the off-world adventures of the real future, where Wagon Train can continue in space. And where does Deckard...
Sunday Reading
...to SUCCESS that a single punk rocker in Pittsburgh could teach a CEO (This dude was responsible for my first forays into anti-capitalism) Spring Breakers and Anti-human Communism ReclaimUC: On...
Sunday Reading
...The strange death of Yasser Arafat David Bromwich on Barack Obama ReclaimUC: Probably, if I was them, I'd have thought: yeah, I'd do it again, and probably get away with...
Sunday Reading
...Of Cholera 'A Censor Is Sitting Inside Me Now' Clothes and Daggers / Racism, Pure and Simple ReclaimUC: The NLRB Columbia decision and the future of academic labor struggles After...
Sunday Reading
...province of Kobani shares with Turkey.” The Most Pointless Ferry in Maryland Theology of Ferguson ReclaimUC: "UC Ventures is off to Vegas to play the slots" Carceral educations A specter...
Sunday Reading
...Malayalam to be given the status of a classical language The photography of Newsha Tavakolian ReclaimUC This week's must read on higher ed: on university endowments, financial managers, and failing...
Sunday Reading
...they feel on the body" ReclaimUC Must-read piece on Fisher v. Texas: How diversity came to replace anti-racism. Also interesting, At the Supreme Court, a timid defense of affirmative action....
Dicks Mixtape
...city. The best mixes are childish and hopeful. Runways, runaways. They’ll reach for you in the middle of the night. Bernadette Mayer writes “So what who cares songs of one...
Sunday Reading
...a check when they get caught, they’re never going to stop.'" ReclaimUC: Los Angeles police fired their weapons in 63 incidents last year, a total which marked a roughly 50%...
Sunday Reading
...a Hundred Years The Unbearable Wrongness of Koushal vs Naz Readings for the 7th Anniversary of the al-Mutanabbi Street Bombing ReclaimUC: "Cops off every campus, and out of every neighbourhood!"...
Sunday Reading
...in show of protest Diamonds Are Bullshit ReclaimUC: The skills gap is bullshit, Wisconsin edition Financialization killed Sweet Briar The school-to-deportation pipeline "We knew that increased police presence [at the...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.1.12
...feminization of The New Aesthetic is a must-read if you're interested in visual culture even in the slightest. "The New Aesthetic is about being looked at by humans and by...