Sunday Reading

Jacob Remes:

• A banned Studs Terkel film on the right to work that won't kill, maim, or sicken you. 
• What should we call the Civil War?
• Isabella Stewart Gardner
• The good news about Jeff Bezos buying the Post
• "If the questioning, detention, and search of Miranda was for a purpose other than to determine if he was a terrorist, then it was unlawful."
• A Hindu flies during Ramadan
• Instant ramen and the rise of industrial food
• The Dennis Side

Kitabet:

• An interview with Hermione Lee on the art of biography: “Biography has so much to do with blame. It is not a neutral zone.”
• On the mathematical simulation of phantom traffic jams
• “And yet, in many ways, the status of women in Turkey has as much to do with the patriarchal tendencies of the Turkish Republic itself.”
• Delinquent Kids, Revolutionary Mothers, Uncle Governor, and Erdo?an the Patriarch: Part One, Part Two
• In Delhi, “the urban free-roaming dog as a “keystone species”, an animal that plays a unique and crucial role in a city’s ecosystem”
• “We should be thinking about how to respond to the challenge of changes in the publishing industry, not with fear, but with ideas about how to make open access work for recent graduates.”
• Surveillance and the State (thank God for The Guardian)
• ‘The result would be a lightning farm, a titanic landscape tuned to the sky…cleansing the earth of toxic chemicals and preparing the site for future reuse.” 
• “Because as anyone familiar with the corporate press (and the American public) will tell you, nothing garners more sympathy than a recently convicted national security whistle-blower - "traitor" in the parlance of our times - coming out as transgender.”
• The Dumb White Chick vs Creepy Indian Lecher Debate
• Cairo, again: “There is no place for me in the street, or in a national conversation determined to start and end with chauvinistic nationalism.”
• Abuna Paolo is missing

nathan jurgenson

• "the women-are-mysterious trope is not an accident and nor is it free of consequences"
• "Catherine MacKinnon would ban at least 90% of contemporary trafficking campaigns"
• "Area 51 was forced to comply with environmental laws"
• "Using Indians as mascot symbols amounts to social control"
• "people’s hatred of Skyler had little to do with me and a lot to do with their own perception of women"
• "we might well ask ourselves how it ever occurred to us to imagine this is how change happens to begin"
• "a religion based around getting Facebook Likes"
• "it explicitly privileges communicative practices of speech and voice over text without justifying this gigantic assumption"
• "I am now watching Twitter become morally depopulated"
• "the only explanation for why, despite our technological capacities, we are not all working 3-4 hour days"
• "you provide such a neat explanation of technological determinism that I can’t wait to share it with my undergrads"
• "At some point, it may (may) have made sense to associate Facebook with peace. But that time is over"
• "academics have a lot of bad options and a handful of acceptable ones that zigzag across academia and industry"
• "Airbnb illustrates algorithmic living"
• "Medium wasn't building a magazine, I realized, but a magazine killer"
• "when the majority of people are telling you not to do something, that might be an indication that it’s something worth doing"
• "Funeral directors in a handful of states must tap out death certificates on a typewriter"

Shailja Patel

:

• Destroy your homes or go to jail: South Africa's war on shackdwellers
• revolutionary hope: Audre Lorde and James Baldwin in conversation
• Up and down gaza strip with Dervla Murphy
• not disposable, cardinal Dolan
• he died laughing, that's a fact: Judy Grahn’s a woman is talking to death
• from Chris Mlalazi’s new Gukurahundi novel
•  any girl can be glamorous...stand still and look stupid: the ecstasy of Hedy Lamarr
• every conversation ever about sexual harassment
• watching male team sports while female
• Sia Fiegel's songs of the fat brown woman 
• the healthy sex talk: teaching kids consent, ages 1-21

Frank Pasquale:

• The NSA love connection; will it pay for OkCupid?; Post-Snowden summary.
• TPP as coup d'etat; expect radical changes in IP law.
• 450,000 students on the waiting list to get into California community colleges.
• Throwing housing finance to the wolves; education finance parallels.
• STEM goes to war; job-seekers need  modafinil.
• A glimpse of an ugly future; can activistism prevent it?
• Dr. Nudgelove; some background.
• The economy of favors; Sorkin loves it; but cash better for many Wall Street journos.

Reclaim UC:

• The definitive piece on administrative bloat at the University of California
• African-American theses and dissertations at UC Berkeley, 1907-2002
• Against academic alibis: An interview with George Ciccariello-Maher
• The core problems with ObamaEd
• For God, for country, for college, forever
• How colleges are going to game Obama's new plan to make higher ed more affordable
• Collecting more data means hiring "more personnel or personnel with new and more expensive skill sets"
• Obama's whack-a-mole approach to higher ed
• Why does college cost so much—and why do so many pundits get it wrong?
• "No Child Left Behind for higher education"
• What I saw in my Coursera MOOC
• Some problems with Oregon's "pay it forward" tuition plan
• On bullshit jobs

Kerim Friedman:

• On the Death of Democratic Higher Education
• Language diversity in California linked to ecological diversity
• How consciousness works
• 5 Minute University
• Dongria Kondhs have shown the way
• Not A Beautiful Woman
• Gramsci Comes Home
• Why We Talk in Tongues
• Finding Nemo lied to your kids
• A map of New York City made exclusively with the NYPD 2012 Stop & Frisk data
• The lure of the epigenome
• Deregulation May Not Have Been a Boon For Airline Passengers After All
• Mussolini's Fascist Headquarters