Sunday Reading

Kerim Friedman:

• R.I.P. Dennis O’Rourke
• “Karl Marx Arrested”
• No One is Innocent
• A Himalayan tragedy
• “My number-one enemy in Brazil is the Globo media conglomerate”
• Print your photos as laté artwork.
• It’s expensive to be poor.
• Northern India could experience the deadliest encephalitis outbreak in almost a decade.
• “he believed other international airlines would eventually start charging by weight”
• Japanese considering removing Bataille from the middle school curriculum.
• Perry Anderson Skateboard
• Movements against mining-based over-industrialisation in India’s tribal heartland.
• “What are the rest of us? Chopped liver?”
• “The truth is that there are two very different education stories in America.”
• “liberals today are arguing that 300 years of immoral policy can be undone by changing the subject”
• “The fact that one of the agents was named Bloom filled me with foreboding.”

ReclaimUC:

• UC Berkeley scrambling to cover stadium bill . . . and interest payments
• Berkeley and the FBI
• The last mystery of the financial crisis: bond raters (the same ones that give the UC its marching orders)
• NYU gives top administrators massive loans to buy vacation homes
• Massive Open Online Administrations (MOOAs)
• "the kind of liberalism that contemporary professors espouse . . . goes hand-in-hand with neoliberal policies"
• "even playing by the rules will destroy you in a prestige economy"
• The price of silence (on Salinas v. Texas)
• Resisting tear gas together
• "At last, we are alive": contextualizing the Brazil protests
• PRISM, surplus sociality, and the crisis of semio-capitalism

nathan jurgenson

• “Now that my father fit into a desktop-size box — my computer screen — the proportions seemed manageable”
• “The chilling disciplinary effect taking place in the digital age affects everyone”
• “street art is “so transitory” and ephemeral that without social media, “a lot of it would fall by the wayside””
• “The term “cyberutopian” tends to be used only in the context of critique”
• “passionate game fans are willfully blind to the communication gap between the games industry and everyone else”
• “#Standingman is good activism for the same reasons it makes for a good meme”
• “drone fiction denies the presence of human operators; it renders drones autonomous”
• “Uber meets AirBnB for Helicopter Transport”
• “In the nineties, tapping the Web, if not impossible, was certainly a pain”
• “we are open-source-extremists, the feminist virus infecting your thoughts“
• "a bitter and contentious academic war over the status and nature of porn research"
• "The NSA is making it about race/religion/ethnicity [through] the conceptual category of “Muslim Terrorists""
• "people being cited in our four journals are, overwhelmingly, white men"
• "Austra's Katie Stelmanis is happy to put feminism centre-stage"
• "We don’t give other people credit for the same interior complexity we take for granted in ourselves"

Bint Battuta:

• On mountaineering and the Enlightenment
• Representation of the Intellectual, Edward Said's 1993 Reith Lectures
• Orientalism: A Black Perspective (1981)
• Memories of Emiratis sent to study in the UK in the 1970s
• The Black Sphere of Varanasi
• Lebanese Railways: Searching for a Locomotive
• Italians and the Invention of Race: The Poetics and Politics of Difference in the Struggle over Libya
• Vasu Deva Sharma, who studied at London's Royal College of Art in the 1920s
• A Potential Renaissance for Arabic Translation
• The past and present of Indian environmentalism
• Hasidic music
• "If being a writer is to endure loneliness then being a writer of color in America is to suffer banishment"
• Syrian soap opera recreates Damascus in Abu Dhabi
• A visit to the Kalakshetra dance academy in Chennai
• How to count above a trillion in Urdu
• Doresh tov le-'amo, a Judeo-Arabic serial issued in Bombay from 1856 to 1866
• Travel accounts of Ottoman Salonica
• Bhojpuri folk songs on migration
• Gaza's Gypsies
• Tracing prehistory in Qatar
• The policing of Bangalore's nightlife
• The Women I Have Destroyed

Jacob Remes:

• Michael Hastings (1980-2013) (longer obit; remembrance as a friend)
• "Jewish death care radicals"
• What's at stake in Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl (radio 37:00)
• The conservative free-speech agenda
• Administeria
• The real question we should be asking about the future of the labor movement
• The Charbonneau Commission takes its summer holiday.
• A quarter of Alberta's museums are in the flood zone.
• Wage theft, poverty, and Japan's "black companies"

 

L.E. Long:

• Headless Fatties, Our Modern Folk Devils
• The Drugs Don’t Work
• Tarkovsky's polaroids
• The empty eyes of Big Data