Sunday Reading

Reclaim UC:

• The UC administration "appears to be constructing a narrative in which faculty and staff compensation . . . is the driver behind increases in tuition."
• Death of an adjunct
• "In other words, after learning of her difficulties and making gestures toward her, [Duquesne] university’s official response was to cut back her work and then unemploy her."
• Superman's shop floor: An inquiry into charter school labor in Philly
• The Malcolm X Liberation School at occupied Duke University (1969)
• How slavery shaped America's oldest and most elite colleges
• Urban China's segregated education system
• Dropouts tell no tales
• Working with kids
• Respectability politics and the death of Jonathan Ferrell

Kitabet:

• The Queer Art of Whistle Blowing
• An Interview with Dr. Susan Robinson, One of the Last Four Doctors in America to Openly Provide Third-Trimester Abortions
• The Accidental Syrian Victims of Morsi’s Fall
• Burning Joseph Colony
• What the atomic tests of the 1950s looked like from Los Angeles
• Word As Image: Contextualizing “Calligraffiti: 1984-2013? 
• “Now, as mayor, he is seeking to apply the tenets of the black radical tradition to the duties of running a city.”
• Photo Requests from Solitary Confinement
• A review of “Tectonic Shifts: Haiti Since the Earthquake”
• “Abdurrahman is from Aleppo. He, his wife and the couple's two young children have been sleeping in a park in ?stanbul for the past few months.”
• How To Design a City for Women

Frank Pasquale:

• 16,000 Americans make over $10 million per year.
• WaPo sad another profession persists.
• US total information dominance won't last forever.
• The reputation industry sweatshop.
• Rise of an anti-system party.
• DC, Wall Street, & Silicon Valley cashed out; so too have Chinese UHNWIs.
• Professor of leisure studies.
• Indonesia as tobacco paradise.
• The big shell game.
• The most vulnerable.

Jacob Remes:

• What Christianity means to the Duquesne University administration
• Five years on Rikers before being acquitted
• EZPasses are tracking devices.
• "More data does not necessarily mean better information."
• US spying fractures the internet.
• “In the beginning, airplanes were used for spying, just like drones.”
• Three books on Occupy Wall Street
• "Commerce wrapped up in, and appropriating, the language of solidarity"
• What email records will future historians have?

L.E. Long:

• Trayvon Martin and the legacy of black-on-black crime
• Where have all the butches gone? (TW: Image of a white-presenting person wearing a cap with a Native mascot)
• "Every woman must decide how not to sleep with Jonathan Franzen in her own way."
• The queer art of whistle-blowing (And a good companion piece: Enigma deviations)
• A jewel that dissolves space and time (for real, though)
• Aiyana Jones matters
• The white coach's burden
• They’re stripping from the ground beneath you
• A city for women is not the city of men
• Revolutionary letters (Diane di Prima edit / audio)

Aaron:

• A University of Kansas journalism professor placed on indefinite administrative leave Friday for a tweet
• The students are tapped out, so let’s work on getting money from their friends and family
• British Empire trading cards, from 1904
• Picturing Mountains as Hills
• They had to kill the old man to save him
• What didn’t Walt Whitman have sex with, though
• County Board Bans Invisible Man because they are assholes.
• Xenohobia photobombs the conversation.
• "I'm a professor." "Oh, you mean you're a content provider to the knowledge industry."

Bint Battuta:

• Scenes of Jewish Life in Kerala, India (1937)
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina
• "Like numerous other aspects of modernity, uniforms first penetrated Turkish culture through the military"
• Criminality and Colonial Anthropology
• The 'What Are You' Game: Rules and Regulations
• Being Muslim at the Margins: Alevis and the AKP (2008)
• Why Indian saris are made with Chinese silk yarn
• Chinese fiction through an Indian lens
• The fight to preserve the history of New York's Little Syria
• "Tickling seems to contravene the everyday experience of causality"
• Exceptions to citizenship: the 'outsiders' who 'built' Dubai
• Researching Middle East history in French archives
• "The modern concept of private ownership has done a lot of damage to communities"
• Anarchists in Education: The Free Popular University in Egypt (1901)
• Footage of Bombay and Delhi in 1962
• An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
• A look at the French word "malabar"

nathan jurgenson

• "'Like’ Is Protected Speech, Appeals Court Says"
• "Since the promise of money is broken, far out of reach, young people’s currency is attention"
• "The imagined traces of my would-be scrobbling seemed like photographs for sound: scrobble, or it didn’t happen"
• "The organisms are probably not alive, but, excitingly, probably do contain DNA"
• "“Work” trains us to pay special attention to tempo, and this habit follows us into our leisure time"
• "Social media, of course, is both a mirror and an audience at once"
• "War on Instagram: Framing conflict photojournalism with mobile photography apps"
• "“somatic work”—the often taken-for-granted, if not transparent, practices of sense-making"
• "the successful subversion of an otherwise incredibly misogynistic advertising giant"
• "I study the stillbirths of the universe. We're a tiny pinprick of life in a sea of death, & it'll swallow us all"

Kerim Friedman:

• The Honey Launderers: Uncovering the Largest Food Fraud in U.S. History
• Being Chinese in the Contemporary World
• The Mooncake Economy
• Royal pillow talk
• America's Lethal Profiling of Afghan Men
• When Duke Ellington played Kabul
• Jeffrey Sachs' Failure to Eradicate Poverty in Africa
• How Slavery Shaped America's Oldest And Most Elite Colleges
• Judge Throws Out Officers' Convictions in Killings After Hurricane Katrina
• A Brief History of the Hashtag, and Other Unusual Punctuation Marks
• Hawaii tells Janice Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele to change name
• Marriage Will Never Set Us Free
• If "Breaking Bad" Had Been Set In The U.K.
• This is a complete list of Wall Street CEOs prosecuted for their role in the financial crisis