Sunday Reading

Kitabet:

• Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence
• “Judging by how audiences regard it, Game of Thrones is a Turkish show that happened to have been funded by an American company.”
• Lifecycles and Makerspaces in an “Electronics Graveyard”: Agbogbloshie
• Dorothea Lange’s Photographs of Japanese-American Interment
• “When people mourn the decline of Istanbul, they mourn the willful transformation of the city into an image that is more profitable than the thing itself.”
• Abhorrent Bodies: Burying Evil
• Safety Rope
• “The crackdown on government scientists in Canada began in 2006, after Stephen Harper of the Conservative Party was elected prime minister.”
• Before Bowie Or Prince, There Was Zeki Müren—Turkey's Gender-Bending Rock Star
• "Placing blame on animals is part of the balm we apply to our uneasy consciences about extinction.”
• Scientific Consent, Data, and Doubling Down on the Internet

AlJavieera:

• A critique of contemporary 'pre-critical' asceticism in architectural design, by Douglas Spencer (2015)
• "on the topic of logistics and its role in the making of military, capitalist, and imperial relations"
• "If we need to wean the world from coal, why would Oakland build a dock to export it?"
• Shad
• The Puerto Rican debt narrative
• "New York City officials hinged economic success on harassing, hiding, and shaming homeless people."

Zack Fair:

• 1979 Revolution and the Politics of Choice
• 1979 Revolution: an Interview with Navid Khonsari, Part 1
• Part 2
• You're Crunching. So Now What?
• Ghost in the Shell and anime's troubled history with representation
• Meet the Woman Who Invented Cosplay
• 4 Ways You Are Being 'Aged Out' By the Gaming Industry
• Videogames and Legitimacy
• In Defence of De-Persons
• Gun Modelling for FPP Games
• Meet the Smash Sisters

Kerim Friedman:

• Canada officially adopts UN declaration on rights of Indigenous Peoples
• BDS Co-Founder Omar Barghouti: Banned by Israel From Traveling
• Burying the White Working Class
• Americans Don’t Miss Manufacturing — They Miss Unions
• How racism explains Republicans’ rise in the South
• Still Trying To Make Sense Of The MOVE Bombing
• Lavatory and Liberty: The Secret History of the Bathroom Break
• The Inside Story of How Bill Clinton Sacrificed Prisoners’ Rights for Political Gain
• The Unregulated Chinese Hospitals That Make Men Impotent
• How Roy Cohn became Donald Trump’s mentor
• Mental illness is a result of misery, yet still we stigmatise it

Reclaim UC:

• Fash the campus: Identity Europa, millennial recruitment, and the Berkeley alt right safe space
• The academics who are treated as "less than janitors"
• How hedge funds are bankrupting higher education
• "Universities now rely…on parents, particularly those with money, time, and connections, to meet their basic needs."
• The lie of liberal intolerance on campus
• Blame it on higher ed
• The entrepreneurship racket
• "Schools, too, can strip away agency."
• Is commodifying diversity a viable option for school integration?
• Unfunded mandate: Columbia College, Arts and Sciences, and the Bollinger era
• No confidence in the UW administration / Setting the record straight
• Study and struggle

Actually Aisha:

• The Revenant, Mad Max, and the Nexus of Cinematic Language
• The Politics of Marvel's Black Panther / Why the stakes are so high for the Black Panther
• African Poetry: Introduction / The Novelty of African Poetry
• The 2015 SF Count / Sci-fi media coverage dominated by men, survey shows
• The Unhealthy Truth Behind 'Wellness' and Clean Eating
• 'Sweetie, no!': The Heartbreak of 'You're not fat'
• Putting Black faces on our money won't paper over systemic racism
• 'Lemonade' is About Black Women Healing Themselves and Each Other
• Paul Gilroy in search of a not necessarily safe starting point ...
• The Necessity of Spaces for Black Vulnerability

zunguzungu:

• Reading Lina Meruane's Seeing Red While Disabled
• We Need To Talk About ‘Lah-gos’ In Captain America: Civil War
• Border Cantos
• The Challenge of Genderless Characters
• Against Narcoliterature (by Juan Pablo Villalobos)
• World-Building With Few Words in 'The Transmigration of Bodies' and Baby Girl, The Mennonite, The Unruly, The Dolphin