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
...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
...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...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: "Picture yourself as a stereotypical male" Teaching slavery to reluctant listeners The Prison University Project How Salaita was fired The University of California's perma-temp problem University of...
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...
All Our Little Lives
...least that’s how we assume it feels, from our definitively creepy position of adult voyeur. Many tweets in the #followateen feed are extremely condescending, as is Thorpe’s original tweet. 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...
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...
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...
The Deep Resentment of Having to Think About It: Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke
...more bitter and contested this expulsion can be made to be, the more effectively he plays his role as culture warrior. In fact, because it's the function of a right...
Rapture, Rainbows and Reproduction
...his own delirious repsonse to a double rainbow captures a culture-wide sense of joy at being able to experience miraculous nature and capture it too, master it, make it seemingly...
The Personal in the Professional: a 19th-Century Hangover
...identity with or without the consent of the subject. However, the culturally embedded beliefs about women’s roles affect both situations; in Western culture a woman seeking professional power must demonstrate...
Little Yellow Boy Giant, Terrorist
...shape or foster artistic breakthroughs. The accusation that the city is risk-averse and WASP-y descends from an 'age-old attitude central to the very culture of Boston itself: a city where...
Film as A Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theatre 1/31
...title. Vogel died in April of 2012, but his contributions to film criticism and New York film culture live on. His film club, Cinema 16, which ran in the sixties,...
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...