- It Is About the Park: A Struggle for Turkey's Cities
- The Turkish Media's Darkest Hour
- Who is in Taksim Solidarity/Taksim Dayan??mas?
- Contours of a New Republic and Signals From the Past: How to Understand Taksim Square
- "Officers in Istanbul's Gezi Park and elsewhere have been on duty for weeks without rest, yet face major hurdles in unionising."
- #resistankara: Notes of a Woman Resisting
- Elif Batuman's wonderful 2011 essay on Çar??, the football fan group that has played a key role in the ?stanbul protests [pdf]
- Is Everywhere Taksim? Public Space and Possible Publics
- Lost in Taksim Square
- "if we are going to fight with each other as a people, then we will all lose."
- Shailja Patel on Disposable Girls
- Shailja Patel on "Mutula Kilonzo and Disposable Girls"
- Shailja Patel on "A Brief History of Micro-Aggression"
- Sitawa Namwalie on "Let's Speak A Simple Truth"
- Kerubo Abuya on Violence and Voice
- Phyllis Muthoni on public cultures of contempt for women in Business Daily, one and two
- Wambui Mwangi on Rape Culture.
- “In a lot of cases in China, urbanization is the process of local government driving farmers into buildings while grabbing their land”
- India to send world’s last telegram. Stop.
- Lost medieval city found in Cambodia
- “consultants who consultant with consultants and advisers who advise advisers”
- Is the U.S. Actively Trying to Prolong the Syrian Civil War?
- Occupy Mato Grosso, the Protest of Brazilian Indigenous Peoples
- “the difference between cDNA and natural DNA is a purely technical matter”
- “The promise of data mining is compelling, and convinces many. But it’s wrong.”
- “Dear NSA, let me fix your slide show.”
- How does mercury get in tuna? It’s in the air you breath.
- David Brooks: The last Stalinist
- Using Metadata to find Paul Revere
- “FBI surveillance, disinformation, and other monkey business during the student revolts that roiled the University of California at Berkeley in the 1960s.”
- “we have allowed our prisons to become medieval places of unspeakable cruelty… far beyond constitutional norms”
- “Look at that British girl who lived off of chicken nuggets for almost eighteen years”
- “This kind of information processing, which blocks subjects’ knowledge and involvement, is a kind of due-process problem.”
- Edward Tufte on the NSA's sins
- Massively Open Online Police State
- Doktorgeschwister
- A history of liberal anti-unionism
- The baby in "Salt of the Earth" ended up working at Walmart.
- "Nuclear power is fine, or at least meh, with me."
- In the battle of men against the sea, men have been winning for a long time. [radio 59:00]
- Six Fairy Tales for Modern Women
- Sartre and the Arabs: a footnote
- Italo Calvino on Palestine (1968)
- "The Sayyida Zainab shrine lies at the heart of a strategic relationship between the Assad regime, Iran, and Arab Shia groups"
- The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains
- UrCrowdsource: help transcribe documentation of 1922-1934 excavation of Ur in Mesopotamia
- The story of Yusra, expert excavator of Mount Carmel
- The Influence of Orientalism on US Buddhism
- Mapping words for "book"
- A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica
- VHS Kahloucha
- How some Bombay-ites read their newspapers
- An Anglo-Indian insurance policy
- The Forgotten Apogee of Lebanese Rocketry
- A look into the construction site archives of Le Corbusier's Gymnasium in Baghdad
- The jinn of the Emirates
- How Bollywood pushes Indian regional cinema to the sidelines
- Haiti: History, Voice, Empowerment - interview with Edwidge Danticat from 2004
- The demise of cinema-going in Mosul
- 1956 BBC report on the political situation in Bahrain
- Diary entries from Philippine history
- Regarding India: Conversations with Artists
- Invest in green energy or a $34 million rug?
- Welcome to Liberty, NY.
- How could a cute elephant logo lead to bad things?
- Lookism.
- Finance Crime Watch: 1) Forex; 2) BofA Snafu.
- Player Piano, discussed.
- Civil liberties will never be popular, but Silicon Valley fundraisers will be.
- State & tech firms merge; "a company executive, known as a 'committing officer,' is given documents that guarantee immunity from civil actions resulting from the transfer of data"
- Some background on "get-out-of-jail-free cards for future illegal acts."
- Welcome to the matrix of digital resume filtering.
- Known unknowns; unknown knowns; and a handy guide to tell the difference.
- The Information Dominance Corps & media-weaponization militia.
- MOOCs are overhyped.
- Even the 77th richest man in the world can have a troubled home life.
- Let's put people's lives at risk so drivers can text LOL.
- “it’s no surprise to see an app tracking your ability to disconnect”
- “It’s no accident that both Manning and Snowden are former soldiers who served in Iraq”
- “Should the government know less than Google?”
- “7. Realize, w/ horror, that your boyfriend, unbeknownst to you, has had unprecedented access to all of your emails”
- ““Oh, don’t be such a digital dualist, Raymond,” Isobel quipped”
- “In his egregious professional misstep, he inadvertently handed Fat Activists a microphone and a spotlight”
- “Every wave of positivism eventually comes undone, when its central contradiction emerges”
- “the digital beatdown he’d help deliver over Steubenville came back to haunt him”
- “Steve Jobs Time Capsule. Buried at a conference in Aspen in 1983, but remains lost”
- “anti-government forces are deliberately buying up basics like toilet paper to destabilise the country”
- “To invoke the boundless informant is to call attention to the way powerful actors nonconsensually extract data from populations through the design of everyday life”
- “that’s the funny thing about how data is used by our current government. It’s used to create suspicion, not to confirm innocence”
- “What Pussy Riot give us is a new, viral-ready model for the digital age– proof that, like feminism & punk rock, the protest song is alive”
- "As an idea, “purity” is as stupid as it is insidious, conservative, and common"
- "Success decreed by institutions means nothing when institutions are rotting"
- "I had my viewpoint, and it was based on solid experience, and it…was…fucking…wrong"
- "the eyeball could well be an erogenous zone"
- "But liking the fact that a woman wants to have sex doesn’t translate to actually liking the woman herself"
- "I sprinted to the bathroom and undressed, determined to take at least one honey-coated selfie in the few minutes before my sitting"
- On the ongoing failure of the UC administration to confront racism on campus
- Public universities as tax shelters
- Revolutionary study against and beyond the university
- The lessons of the megalomaniac university president
- Massively Open Online Police State
- Just read Ian Bogost: Six axioms on MOOCs / MOOCs are not educational technologies
- Blood, MOOCs, and money
- Seeking to expose high school policing, students end up in handcuffs
- "I've gone to resist, I'll be right back"
- Sleepless in Istanbul I / and II
- An introduction to a small part of US domestic surveillance
- Booz Allen and online education
- PRISM and Bill Gates' "documented life"
- Primitive historical accumulation