Sunday Reading

kitabet:

• “Oh, Uncle Adrian, I’m in the reservation of my mind.”
• bell hooks, Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In
• New York Underground: “a mantle of many layers, often hundreds of feet deep, through which the city extends its vital roots in an exuberant confusion of private and public needs.”
• Salt Water in the Golden Horn Leads to Unintended Consequences
• “This animated thematic map narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire.”
• Syrian Tears in Istanbul
• “Each tree and farm, street and courthouse of my home county rests on shallow-buried stories of slavery and Civil War”
• Forensic Topology: Los Angeles, the bank robbery capitol

Bint Battuta:

• The Orderly Pleasures (and Displeasures) of Oil Urbanism
• How land reclamation has changed Bahrain's coastline
• Dismantling the narrative of the decline of Islamic rationalism
• On Muslim detectives in crime fiction
• Sufism in Turkish Crime Fiction
• The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
• Marie Paris Pishmish, Turkish-Armenian astronomer in Mexico
• A Persian Sufi in British India: The Travels of M?rz? ?asan ?af? ?Al? Sh?h
• The Politics of Protection: Iberian Missionaries in Safavid Iran under Sh?h ?Abb?s I
• The language of anti-Shiism
• The history of bookselling and publishing in Lahore's Kashmiri Bazaar
• Marvellous Histories: Reading the Sh?hn?mah in India
• The Mughal Book of War: A Persian Translation of the Sanskrit Mahabharata
• Wrestling in Maharashtra - and the champions from Pakistan and Iran
• Yemen in the (Anti-)Imperial Indian Ocean: Toward a Spatial History of Modern Arabia
• Sanjay Subrahmanyam on V.S. Naipaul
• Ramachandra Guha on Rabindranath Tagore
• Interview with M.G. Vassanji: "Swearing in Swahili, living in Canada, rediscovering India"
• Photos of Jewish life and heritage in Mumbai and Maharashtra
• Hadramis in Singapore
• The Muslims of Medieval Italy
• The Emergence of the Indo-Iranians: The Indo-Iranian Languages
• Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions
• On mouneh, Lebanese pickles and preserves

Kerim Friedman:

• Secret 'Free Trade' Negotiations Will Gut Regulations, Further Enrich Multinationals and Big Financial Firms
• CHARTS: The Hidden Benefits of Food Stamps
• Chinese land reform: A world to turn upside down
• The Failure of American Governance in 1 Depressing Chart
• Marshall Sahlins on how Chinese language programs 'restrain the free exchange of ideas'
• 'Scientific humanties': a MOOC by Bruno Latour
• The limits of investigative journalism
• The Smell of the Stasi
• Scholars respond to racist NY Times story about Roma
• 'I'll Be Your Mirror': Lou Reed and the New York School of Poetry
• Poop Train
• The Gladwell pivot

ReclaimUC:

• UCLA + LAPD = "Predictive Policing"
• Racial discrimination, administrative toleration, and retaliation at UCLA
• UC Irvine has an actual Nazi working there as a public safety officer, but thinks it's fine because of "free speech"
• Trying to make it on $17,000 a year: Bargaining testimony from a UCSC student-worker
• No dialogue with racists: On walking out at Duke
• NYC public school suspensions follow stop-and-frisk patterns
• Trojan horses: Private donations and university construction projects
• "Coursera is joining forces with the State Department's MOOC Camp Initiative"
• The STEM crisis is a myth
• By the numbers: Sexual assault on campus
• Endnotes 3: Gender, race, class and other misfortunes
• University life comes to a standstill across Britain as academic staff go on strike
• Failure of the 2010 UK student movement: A diagnosis
• The logic of stupid poor people

Jacob Remes:

• The Lost Cow Tunnels of New York City
• Earthquakes at the end of time
• Japanese baseball rhetoric

Frank Pasquale:

• PPACA Big Lie Busted. 500 more to go; 499; ad nauseam.
• The government has outsourced its brain.
• Between 2003 and 2010, the vice chair of the University of Phoenix collected $574.3 million.
• For-profit education spending breakdown: 17.4% on teaching, 20% profit, >20% on marketing & recruitment.
• If anyone tells you elite law schools are left-wing, ask Dan Tarullo about being denied tenure at Harvard on political grounds.
• Still no Wall Street executives criminally charged.
• Breathless & burdened.
• Childish ethics; duckupy retail.
• From HERMIT to HealthCare.gov.
• CEOclassical Economics.
• Over the hungercliff, as the real hunger games begin.
• The risible Mankiw.
• DARPA funds on the brain.
• Tea Party says: get off my lawn!
• The ontology of agnotology.

Nathan Deuel:

• Syria's last KFC is now closed.
• Istanbul's "museum of underwater archeology" will feature fourth-century port of Theodosius and some boats
• 'A bear boarded a subway car packed with New Yorkers and tourists.'
• 'News of Lou Reed’s death arrived on the Bowery via push notification.'
• 'So many people died outdoors or vanished [in Nome] that the FBI searched for signs of a serial killer.'
• Los Angeles jury awarded $150M to girl who saw family die in fiery freeway crash
• California woman who killed pimp at age 16 set to be freed
• Hubbart, 62, admitted to raping 38 women in California between 1971 and 1982, often placing pillowcases over the heads of his victims to quiet their screams.

nathan jurgenson:

• "[Sandberg] ignores concrete systemic obstacles most women face inside the workforce"
• "the ability to lose yourself in the game, that’s what you need to do—to not be conscious of being conscious"
• “Franzen’s 6,400-word piece in The Guardian may be the last cry of the last dinosaur going down for the last time in the tar pit”
• “the Internet is where we live. It’s not a place we go to anymore; it’s a layer over everything”
• “Unsolved Mysteries injected a sense of the enchanted in an otherwise mundane suburban landscape”
• “the tools used to make film, the science of it, are not racially neutral”
• “why must a photo of my face be justified when a photo of my bookshelf is not?”
• “selfies suggest the world we observe through social media is more interesting when people insert themselves into it”
• “Week 5: Feedback: Bruno Latour comments on your blogs”
• “The problem with the relentless “search for meaning” is that it extinguishes all meaning in favour of pure emotion”
• “the Internet is producing more extreme forms of modernism than modernism ever dreamed of”