Sunday Reading

SECTION 1. The New Inquiry finds and declares all of the following: In recent years, the internet's public institutions have faced skyrocketing demand at a time when they lack capacity to provide readers with access to necessary for program completion and success. In the 2012-13 academic year, 85 percent reported having waiting lists for their 2012 sections, with an average of more than 7000. With rapidly developing innovation in online course delivery models, the internet's public institutions have a unique opportunity to meet critical demands by providing students with access to high-quality, alternative, online pathways to successfully complete and obtain. The internet could significantly benefit from a statutorily enacted, quality-first framework. While providing easy access, these systems could also continually assess the value and the rates in utilizing alternative online pathways.

nathan jurgenson:

• "The old Netflix Friends used people to personalize; the new Netflix with Facebook uses people to homogenize"
• "If autonomous vehicles obey traffic laws, income from traffic violations should go down"
• "It shows how necessary it is to now deconstruct, in the sense of Derrida, the theories about the virtual"
• "The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and whether we like it or not"
• "Tumblr encourages unbounded use. It allows you to experiment and play"
• "characterizations of digital or physical, virtual or material, necessarily obscure how each constitutes the other"
• "Drones as killer robots, drones as children sent off to war"
• "That isn't how rape trials ought to be discussed by professional journalists"
• "Nostalgia robs history of its ability to surprise, shock, amaze"
• "It sounds like he’s advising teens to cover their tracks better, not to prevent rapes in the first place"
• "the Tea Party’s apocalyptic yearning for closure is diametrically unlike Occupy’s quest for an eternal present"
• "'What are you doing after the orgy?' That is a question. There is no answer"
• "A man on the road is solitary. A woman on the road is alone"
• "Steubenville is rape culture's Abu Ghraib moment"
• "Anyone who thinks that women won't think twice about speaking up forcefully about this stuff is kidding themselves"

Bint Battuta:

• On café culture in Sarajevo
• Khalil Sakakini's Ottoman prison diaries
• Judith Butler: What Shall We Do Without Exile? Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish Addressing the Future [YouTube]
• Interview with Amit Chaudhuri
• Cairo University and the Orientalists
• Christianity in the Gulf during the ?rst centuries of Islam
• The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran [podcast]
• Volume control: what happened to the books abandoned by Palestinians in 1948?
• A forgotten massacre from the early years of American colonisation of the Philippines
• It’s ever so simple: a tribal map of the Middle East
• Profession, maid
• On the history of neon
• Shared Sorrows: Indians and Armenians in the prison camps of Ras al-‘Ain, 1916-18
• European Diasporas in the Ottoman Empire: Nineteenth-Century Polish Emigres [podcast]
• Ishu Patel on training with Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Transnational Feminism and Women Who Torture: Reimag(in)ing Abu Ghraib Prison Photography
• Egyptian Views of Ottoman Rule: Five Historians and Their Works, 1820-1920
• Captive Consumers? Shopping, Urban Space, and the Colonial Politics of Middle East Consumption [podcast]

Kitabet:

• Field Notes: Disaster: Part I: Provocation and Part II: Translation
• Enlightenment: It’s What’s for Dinner“Go back several hundred years and one finds that the general form of the Twinkie defense was central to medical thought and practice.”
• How to Build a Minaret
• Excuse Us While We Kiss the Sky (the urban exploration movement, and the pleasures & perils of participatory research)
• Atomic Age Artifacts: so what exactly was in all those old fallout shelters?
• Race, Class, and Disaster Gentrification (after Sandy)
• Who’s Got the Address? (Amitava Kumar on the photographs of Teju Cole)
• Star-Gazing Girls of Georgian England (an 1811 needlework sample of the solar system, and more)
• The Most Important Thing: photographs of Syrian refugees and the things they carry
• Viral Occupation: Cameras and Networked Human Rights in the West Bank
• The Istanbul That Might Have Been, and Might Still Be
• Talking Shit and Cholera on World Water Day
• Behold the Hatred, Resentment, and Mockery Aimed at Anti-Iraq War Protestors (remember “objectively-pro Saddam”?)
• What’s Missing from the Iraq Debate?“here's one surprising detail about the flood of retrospectives: They have almost exclusively been written by Americans, talking about Americans, for Americans."

Frank Pasquale:

• The real takers, and their hot money.
• Hacking tax havens.
• Economic development is relative.
• Ag committee derivatives.
• Why finance differs from economics.
• Runaway oligarchs; is Cyprus a tax haven?.
• "Democracies will build larger, highly capitalized militaries as inequality in wealth rises."
• "The recent dramatic rise in income inequality in the United States is well documented."
• DHS buys a billion bullets.
• From Honey Boo Boo to honey laundering.
• "Lifting the Lid" in China.
• “The Supreme Court came within one vote of taking health insurance away from more than 30 million people"

ReclaimUC:

• "UC is using Coursera to get faculty to sign over their courses, intellectual property, and their IDENTITIES."
• Corporate education reform hits San Francisco Community College
• Backroom financial dealings of a top university
• How do you build the Harvard University of the for-profit college sector?
• "Most of us professors (even contingent faculty) are in a much better economic position than the machine breakers ever were. Unfortunately . . . they had us beat hands down in the class consciousness department."
• What Abigail Fisher's affirmative action case is really about. Or, the white student suing to overthrow affirmative action was too dumb to get into her chosen college.
• Some useful higher ed data... plus graphs
• US-style school "reform" hits Mexico
• Stories of sexual violence: We will not remain silent
• Life after Steubenville; Rape culture's Abu Ghraib moment
• So you're tired of hearing about rape culture?
• "How much do you know about Rohypnol?"
• Strike is a verb! From taking over space to taking over time

T. F. Charlton:

• When Did Sex Enter Black literature?
• What Brittney Griner says about us
• Awo vs. Achebe: "We Remember Differently"
• Will Be Boys: A report from both sides of the male gaze
• Uses of Black Transmale Anger
• On "Lean In" as the ultimate "good girl" myth
• Why won't women's colleges admit trans women?
• Sexual assault and rape culture are LGBTQ issues
• "[bell] hooks’ critique of naming conventions is one often lost in neoliberal conversations about women 'getting ahead,' 'breaking the glass ceiling,' and 'leaning in.'"
• Can we criticize books without bashing their readers?
• "Papal theatrics—complete with an appealing hero triumphing in the end—keep the focus on the personal and spiritual, off the political and theological."

L. E. Long:

• 100 arrests as casino workers blockade the Las Vegas strip
• Working through the allotment
• Control and becoming in the neoliberal teaching machine
• Emotion work, cognitive capitalism, and digital labor
• What Antis Can Do To Help, Part One: Aiding Those Still in the Industry *"I am a sex worker who hates the sex industry. As an anti-capitalist, I hate all industries."
• Kimani Gray, Drone Strikes and Liberal Hypocrisy
• Cops' Violent Past to Be Kept from Jury *Oakland officer who shot an unarmed man said he wanted 'to get lethal'
• What's Wrong With the Term 'Person of Color' ... or at least how it's used
• Fallout: The downward spiral of a leading physician in the wake of the AIDS crisis
• Cooking the Books: speculative fiction & food *"This is fucking Cthulhu cheese: the dread cheese that sleeps the sleep of the eons. And then comes to destroy us all."
• V&A scraps Napalm Death gig for fear decibel levels will damage the Ming vases
• The Retro Husband
• Kali's Scream *"This is the take down -- of a person -- moving -- in a leisure vector -- a partnered vector -- in the world."
• MAP: Chicago school closings vs Homicide Heat Map (2012)
• "I write to destroy the 20th century, but this is obvious."
• After 30 Years, I Finally Went To A Barry Manilow Concert
• March Madness is class war (pdf)
• Institute for Anarchist Studies Lexicon pamphlet series

Jacob Remes:

• The death of the International Herald Tribune
• Lenin's favorite instrument was the theramin.
• The United Steelworkers explores coops.
• The failure of disaster citizenship in Japan.
• Rape culture's Abu Ghraib moment.
• Everyone Wants a Piece of Kimani Gray (or, the trouble with opportunism)

Kerim Friedman:

• “The amendment places unprecedented restriction on the national research agenda by declaring the political science study of democracy and public policy out of bounds”
• “Sanjay Dutt, a well-known actor with the droopy eyes of a Mastroianni and the physique of a Stallone.”
• “to consider the digital world as something independent of the cultural realm is problematic”
• “It’s fair to say there are victims on both sides of the penis-snatching equation.”
• “priests should seek to convert the dictators and hired killers to love their neighbours and exercise self-control”
• “Supplanting the sinuous artistry of the Harlem Shake with frenetic styleless arm flailing and hip thrusting”
• “anyone who argued at the time that oil was one of the motivations for the Iraq War was ridiculed mercilessly, but since then it’s been all but obvious, right?”
• “France is reducing its nuclear power capacity faster than Germany”
• “I think the idea that freedom is a form of social cooperation in which everyone exercises relatively equal control over some process and means of work is still something that is worth fighting for”
• Baboons kidnap and raise feral dogs as pets.
• “Razib Khan is not a Marxist in a deep sense. Got it.”
• “One kilogram of the victim’s flesh was handed over to the family.”