Sunday Reading

Kitabet:

• The Summer I Tried to Save Memphis
•  “the technology and grammar of cinema and photography have been centered on the unspoken assumption that their rightful subjects would be white.”
• An International Mud-Smuggling Racket in Seventeenth-Century Ka??thane
•  “The Streets Are Hollow”: On the Job With an Archaeologist in NYC
• Scale of Destruction in ?stanbul Forests Increasingly Visible
• The Cold War Dam Gamp
• “Without a doubt, Omar Souleyman is the most popular Syrian wedding singer in the Western world.”
•  Public Spaces and Spatial Practices: Claims from Beirut
• Wounds of Waziristan: The Story of Drones By The People Who Live Under Them
• The Epic Art of the Haida Mythtellers
•  “[The Screwtape Letters]’ appeal, I think, comes from Lewis’s success in writing a theodicy of the everyday.”
• Charles Darwin’s Son Draws Cute Pictures on the Manuscript of On the Origin of Species
• On the carved marble Ottoman inscription inside the Washington Monument
• “When you look closely at it now, a year later, in the midst of another Atlantic hurricane season, you see all the ways in which the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New York City Transit failed and triumphed.”
• Sexy Halloween

Frank Pasquale:

• 5 arguments for single payer: technical, financial, moral, practical, Konczal.
• Distress is a bank's best friend.
• "The wealth of the wicked is stored for the righteous;" time to liquidate.
• Living la vida libertarian, looking for smokes.
• TL;DR: "8,000-word report on the likelihood of imminent human extinction.”
• Apple's a platform for the new speech.
• Robo-Conference.
• Hedging the pension.
• Anti-communism, Indonesian style.
• For whom the commenter trolls.

Jacob Remes:

• Mapping historical data on US religion
• The value of 12 Years a Slave
• Secular-Catholic hospital mergers threaten access to birth control, sterilization and abortion, fertility treatments, genetic testing, and assisted suicide.
• How can Japanese youths learn intimacy? (But see Hiroko Tabuchi for important caveats.)
• Trouble in Fukushima
• Saving Wikipedia from itself
• Allende's socialist proto-internet for democratic industrial coordination
• Indigenous protest and the "rule of law"
• "We simply cannot build a new relationship with Canada until we can talk openly about sharing the land."

Kerim Friedman:

• Mayor Bloomberg grants Metropolitan Museum of Art right to charge mandatory entrance fee
• The Lust Beneath Japan's Sex Drought
• CDC official: we've reached the 'end of antibiotics'
• The truth is that technology magnifies power in general, but rates of adoption are different.
• data are good, but not if they're used to dodge the core issues
• Traditional Chinese medicine origins: Mao invented it but didn't believe in it.
• Diebold Charged With Bribery, Falsifying Docs, 'Worldwide Pattern of Criminal Conduct'
• Rotimatic- One touch for fresh rotis!
• How to protest in the age of austerity
• Three centuries of women's dress fashions: a quantitative analysis
• The semantics of migration
• how we fell into the trap of reporting Japan's eyeball-licking craze as fact
• The new skull from Dmanisi
• Global apartheid: Are you expat or immigrant?

Bint Battuta:

• A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia
• Stories My Country Told Me: Eqbal Ahmad on the Grand Trunk Road (1996)
• The Activist of Andalusia: Ibn Hazm of Cordoba
• Imperialism and the Dilemma of Slavery in Eastern Arabia and the Gulf, 1873-1939
• Culture and Identity in the Work of an Historian of Ottoman Basra
• The Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman World
• The Ottoman contribution to the Washington Monument
• On neo-Ottomanism
• Turkish Language and Literature in Medieval and Early Modern India
• Memories of Karachi's Jewish community and the "Yahoodi Masjid"
• The Last Jews of Kolkata
• The Persian communities of Bombay (1989)
• Emigration of Iranian Elites to India during the 16-18th centuries
• The history of Asian business elites in East Africa
• The history of the Yemeni community in north east England
• Syrian Jewry in Transition 1840-1880
• Saints, Rebels, and Booksellers: Sufis in the Cosmopolitan Western Indian Ocean
• Coastal Contacts: Oman in the Indian Imagination
• Come On, Baby, Be My Tiger: Inventing India on the German Screen
• The Indus Civilisation and its material culture
• Algerian rock and roll
• Algerian manga
• "Babar is not an unconscious expression of the French colonial imagination; it is a self-conscious comedy about it"
• A Curmudgeon’s Guide to Praise

ReclaimUC:

nathan jurgenson:

• "Men over 50 have been socialized out of astrology, but men in their 20s and 30s love it"
• "let’s say “nondivorced” rather than “married”"
• "an Occupy Party looks slightly less likely than an Occupy-branded energy drink"
• "a feminism that is easily definable, that can be categorized in an encyclopedia or fit on a t-shirt, is often the most incomplete"
• "snorting lines of lesbian separatist theory from copies of the Scum Manifesto"
• “The drone is a sonic paradigm grounded in neoliberal values and conventions”
• “Blurring the lines between machine and organic humanity, Haraway-like, shows that those lines are in fact blurrable”
• “Replicants are obsessed with photographs”
• “the visual regime of the drone, its will to omniscience and precision”
• “A Predator drone stays aloft for 18 hours & the pilots were pushed to be as tireless as the technology they controlled”
• “Soft Culture is hard for some to look at”
• “the question of whether or not something is digital is no longer really important”
• “Apple announcements are the opposite of a guilty pleasure; they are a burden that I take on with pride”

Nathan Deuel:

• Her arms and hands start moving..as she appears to be talking to someone, something..or nothing at all. 
• Not only are surveillance cameras prevalent they don’t appear to be very good.'The NYPD has sold us a bill of goods.'
• "Bussy is a commuter suburb, people don't see each other much." How a corpse in Paris went unnoticed for 8 years 
• On Maryville: 'Power and polite hypocrisies [only] get interrupted when a good-looking rebel decides he’s had enough' 
• Talking to Beirut's only fisherwoman
• The bears here in SoCal are “pigs in fur coats.”