- At Home With Louise Bourgeois
- Who Among Us is Brave Enough to Speak Out Against Alice Munro?
- “By mission's close, there were some 60,000 jellies orbiting Earth.”
- The Revolution Before the Rehearsal: 13th ?stanbul Biennial
- “this buried cathedral of water-control technology at the heart of the city”
- Mapping Europe’s War on Immigration
- “What’s far more corrosive and insidious…is the framework of plausible deniability built up around racism, and how insane that plausible deniability can make a person feel when wielded”
- Women and Thrones
- “the first book you remember seeing or reading where something said helplessly inside your chest ‘Oh, that’s me. That’s us, that’s us, that’s me, thank God, that’s us.’”
- Lahori Christians: Living Under the Radar
- Avonte Oquendo: “By now, we all know his face, which is plastered all over the subway system.”
- A Field Guide to the North American Responsibility Troll
- “And while it’s true that the letter Q was outlawed for 85 years, from 1928 until last month, the reason for the ban had little to do with aesthetic bias or onomastic whim.”
- 35 Erasures
- Excerpts from an ongoing discussion of race & sexual harassment in the online science community: Academic Whores and #RipplesOfDoubt
- The Worst Part is Not
- Scar Tissue
- Mentors and Sex: Jumbled Thoughts
- Recognizing ecological limits would "undo political ones."
- Ogilvy Automata.
- Ambiguities: the tallest skyscraper and the fluffiest bunny.
- On sleep deprivation; a way of cycling through workers fast ala Teach for America?
- Why did Apple ban the game Phone Story, which explores the production chains needed for iPhones? Because it depicted "violence or abuse of children" and "excessively objectionable or crude content."
- "Remember who was there for u when u were a little guy."
- First Monday on Big Data.
- NPR/TED invite Niall Ferguson to talk inequality.
- The federal government/contractor nexus dooms HealthCare.gov; would be nice to compare NSA funding to insurance exchange funding.
- Here comes the big biometric database.
- What does judge think of efforts to save lives & stop corruption? "Arbitrary & capricious."
- Air pollution leading cause of cancer
- The Insidious Power of Not-Quite-Harassment
- Computing Power Used to Be Measured in 'Kilo-Girls'
- Arresting the Unjustly Homeless while they Learn to Code
- Shogun-ki: The Birth of the Ninja: How The West Came To Embrace Ninjer
- Tea Party Yankees
- The '??sharing economy' undermines workers' rights
- Aelita Queen of Mars
- The FBI, COINTELPRO, and the most important robbery you've never heard of
- New faculty positions versus new PhDs
- The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
- On the return of "q", "w" and "x" to Turkish
- Classical Syriac as a modern lingua franca in South India
- Interview with veteran architect and urban planner Abdulrahman Makhlouf
- In Conversation with Mahmood Mamdani
- Jael Silliman on growing up in Calcutta's Baghdadi Jewish community
- The Raj Reconsidered: British India's Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa
- Chapter one of An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon
- An unidentified Indian language in the Cairo Genizah collection
- Bombay Architecture: a tour of the city's heritage homes
- A Black Panther Guide To Algiers
- Anita Desai reads The Postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore
- India from Aden: Khutba and Muslim Urban Networks in Late 13th-Century India
- The archive dumped in a stable in Lahore
- Arabs and Persians beyond the Geopolitics of the Gulf (1996)
- Spatial and Ideological Expressions of Social Diversity In Urban Qatar
- Footage of London's first mosque opening in 1926
- Pooja Jain's photos of Jain nuns in Rajasthan
- El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba
- Joan Didion on keeping a notebook
- The Invention of Italy
- Nearly every faculty member of color at UCLA has experienced racial bias
- In Berkeley, racism never left
- Academic whores
- Do student evaluations measure teaching effectiveness?
- A revenge scenario for student loan borrowers
- Slavery and American universities
- "What they are actually testing is the ability to bullshit on demand"
- Not looking good for affirmative action at the Supreme Court (transcript of oral arguments)
- A brief history of black students' militant struggle at University of Michigan
- Sold out: On the privatization of public education in the UK
- We have something important to say
- "American health care is forging a lucrative alliance with American finance"
- The gendered circuit
- Codex Seraphinianus
- What are the boundaries of "Canadian literature?"
- How Our Entire History Was Dumped in a Horse Stable
- The perils and pleasures of recent history [pdf]
- Why did police attack Occupiers and not Tea Partiers?
- The difference between gay rights and queer politics
- The cartography of bullshit
- The myth of riot-proof buildings
- “Raw video of the quadcopter drone flight and crash on the streets of Manhattan”
- “you cannot take a picture without involving an act of selfishness”
- “the Bluetooth RoboRoach, the first cyborg to be commercially available to the general public”
- “TV has gotten a lot more intimate, more entwined with our subconscious, closer”
- “Facebook’s temporal orientation puts undue pressure on its users to conform to its system“
- “Technology has made it extremely easy to save data but it is increasingly difficult to lose things deliberately”
- “Anton Menlo not only encourages the dissolution of the work/play divide, it capitalizes on it”
- “Broad but shallow (like the social media Eggers lampoons), The Circle is dark comedy for this moment in history”
- “There’s a real brutality to the way Tinder turns people into merchandise”
- “the telephone existed both inside and outside Wever and Bray’s cat and, by extension, people”
- “The gaze of a drone is intrinsically penetrative. The gaze of a drone burrows”
- “The percentage of female Internet video viewers claiming to watch porn online has grown exponentially”