Sunday Reading

Aaron Bady:

• Angelina Jolie Controls the Narrative
• What Does it Mean to Be a Game
• Suffering With a Smile (and a response)
• The Curious Case of Modernity and Plastic Bags
• Daphne Koller and the Problem with Coursera
• Dirty Laundry
• Fighting privatization in Chile
• Beyond a Boundary
• Al-Jazeera's Pro-Israel Censorship
• Faculty Complicity in the Sacking of Public Higher Education
• The Cartography of Bullshit
• Uncle MOOC
• Visualizing the Nakba through google maps
• Profit, HigherEd and Lessons on the Prestige Cartel
• The Lords of MOOC Creation

Frank Pasquale:

• We can't eat cultural capital, but VCs can, on Google Island.
• Finally, a useful comparison of household and national wealth.
• On the "the archaically sexist halls of new technology businesses."
• Deflationary spiral as economic dystopia; austerity's foreseeable consequences.
• Harmed borrowers as nonpersons; bank as judge, jury, and debt collector.
• Socialist hellhole: $38 internet/phone/cable in France.
• The future of automated litigation.
• Global supply chains mean the world is flat.
• The generalized resource curse.
• Targeting demons raise Hollywood profits; how to govern such algorithims?
• Manhattan parents demand "worldly snacks."
• The ultimate power; the insufferable conceit.
• The perfect Secretary of Commerce.

Kerim Friedman:

• “I’ve not been attacked, because I’m from Cambodia, but I don’t feel comfortable when people keep asking me whether I’m from the Philippines when I’m just going to buy lunch”
• “Chagnon vacillates between pity, disdain and (most often) disinterest.”
• “the drive for austerity is as an application of a sort of reverse Hippocratic oath”
• “Some cosmetics companies that were cruelty-free for many years have changed their policies on animal testing so that they may market to China where animal testing is required.”
• “In the MOOC moment, it seems to me, it’s already too late, always already too late. The world not only will change, but it has changed.”
• “Race does not need biology. Race only requires some good guys with big guns looking for a reason.”
• “how the prison industrial complex disenfranchises black men in one chart”
• “scientists have been assiduously searching for such differences for literally hundreds of years, hoping fervently to find them. They haven’t.”
• “‘For the wages of sin is death’ is a much more satisfying message than ‘Shit happens.’ We all want events to have meaning.”
• “Their only merit, in some cases, might well have been mom and dad’s bank account.”
• “Richwine’s theories originate from a long tradition of white racism”
• Why Can’t We Take Pictures in Art Museums? (Increasingly, you can.)
• Why everything you know about wolf packs is wrong.

L.E. Long:

• The lover needs to stop, and to think about the threat of a future that has nothing to do with the relationship.
• If measured by the same metrics that are used to gauge income inequality within nation states, the Bay Area’s internal divide between its rich and its poor would place San Francisco between China and the Dominican Republic...
• ...education, previously considered a public good, was commodified and repackaged...
• ...the women of Wages for Housework were demanding rights from within their imposed “terrain” – that of reproduction...
• He wears black boots, black nylon pants and a black pleather jacket... His tools are a rusty pickaxe and an ancient spade with a bent blade.
• The Agriculture Department acknowledges racial and gender discrimination against farmers.
• The thrust of his argument is that violence in colonial Kenya was not anomalous.
• You aren’t easy prey because you’re smaller but because it’s always hunting season on femininity. 
• Audre Lorde didn’t die a natural death. She died an institutionally produced one...
• This is why NYPD could claim a 50 percent drop in assaults between 1999 and 2006, even while hospital records for these same years showed a 90 percent increase in emergency room visits for assaults...
• I don't want to know who the Real Good Ones and the Real Bad Ones are. 
• The story (of Sonic Adventure) is told to varying degrees from the perspective of six characters, Rashomon-style...
• The Touring Machine: Flesh Thought Inside Out

Kitabet:

• Savage Minds interviews Sarah Kendzior:  “Ethnography is journalism that takes too long.”
• Vijay Iyer: “I am increasingly convinced that, at some level, the science of cities is equivalent to the science of music. Or, more to the point: cities are music.”
• Who Would Kill a Monk Seal?
• On the [peace?] process in Turkey
• “The curious position of queer rights in India is this: although it is opposed, it has no clear opponent.”
• “Here’s a little fairytale from Pakistan.”
• An Ear-splitting Cry: Gender, Performance, and Representations of Zaghareet in the U.S.
• South/South Cities
• Unburied: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the Lessons of Greek Tragedy
• Mother Machine: An ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the Eighteenth Century
• “It never helps historians to say too much about their working methods.”
• Where Are The Women in Translation?
• Watts, 1996: “the photo essay depicting the region’s ‘fearsome street gangs’ however, turned out more like a fashion shoot for dapper style…”
• The Newseum Dishonors Murdered Palestinian Journalists
• A Tour through the Simulated Battlefields of the U.S. National Training Center

Jacob Remes:

• What if People Told European History Like They Told Native American History?
• The danger of becoming American
• Rob Ford Incident File
• What's wrong with political polls?

• Japan's woman problem
• Replicable local news
• How spying on reporters really, truly impedes our getting news.
• Crooked Timber Eurovision research archives.

Bint Battuta:

• So You Want to Speak Hijazi?
• Recordings of Arabic dialects on Reddit
• The origins of the Shehhi dialect of Ras Al Khaimah
• Subcontinental Synth: David Tudor and the First Moog in India
• Reliving the 70s: Egypt’s Golden Age of Rock
• Photography & Power in the Colonial Philippines: Dean Worcester’s Ethnographic Images of Filipinos (1898-1912)
• Derek Gregory on the idea of the "Middle East"
• Varanasi's bhang culture
• Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear: Islamophobia in the United States and British India, 1687-1947
• Manju, Coolie No. 15 - Jaipur Junction's lady porter
• Guidelines for achieving proportional Arabic letters
• Hyderabad’s calligraphers
• Spacetime and the Muslim Journey West: Industrial Communications in the Making of the 'Muslim World'
• Le Corbusier, Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright - what happened to Baghdad's high-profile architectural projects of the 50s
• Noratus, a medieval Armenian cemetery
• The Borders of the Rechtsstaat in the Arab Autumn: Deportation and Law in West Germany, 1972/73
• Guangzhou, home to China's largest African community
• Bangladeshi maids in Hong Kong
• "Northeast India is looked at as the other. People of the region are spoken of as tribals and we're called chinki"
• Bangalore Pride
• 1983 interview with Andrei Tarkovsky

Bonus link:

• Sulabh International Museum of Toilets

Reclaim UC:

• Obama student loan policy will generate a record $51 billion profit this year
• Public university presidents cash in
• Student debt and the crushing of the American dream
• Mapping the student debt bubble
• Sketchy finances behind the Chicago school closings
• If the SAT were a key to all mythology
• "No al lucro!" Fighting privatization in Chile
• The MOOC moment and the end of reform
• Profit, higher ed, and lessons on the prestige cartel
• "[L]ike missionaries of centuries past, the presenters of MOOCs seem to be blithely unaware of the broader cultural implications of their evangelization efforts."
• A MOOC backlash?
• The walled kindergarten
• Bay Area: Capital of inequality
• On Audre Lorde's legacy and the "self" of self-care