Sunday Reading

nathan jurgenson

• "There is a revival of left-wing intellectual thinking on a level unseen since the 1960s"
• "The relevant experience was not fighting a war—the essence of the Soldier—but waiting to die"
• "Richard Cohen's unfortunate career is the proper context to understand his column today and the wide outrage that's greeted it"
• "force schools to stop awarding credit for work experience that violates the Fair Labor Standards Act"
• "By making rap music and its most visible participants the lightening rod for America’s social ills Allen acquits institutional patriarchy"
• "sites that rely heavily on simple voting have much higher percentages of male users"
• "an ideology that sees every person as a potential threat & every communication as potentially worth surveilling"
• "How does someone that with an obvious resentment for the social sciences, also make a joke about how we were always already alienated?"
• "ViralNova does not exist. Those who speak of ViralNova miss the point of ViralNova"
• "the NSA had played a key role in nearly every major geopolitical and military event of the Cold War, with almost no public scrutiny"
• "for now, there's a really tidy profit to be made showing web pages to robots"
• "Haraway’s theoretical misappropriations in the relationships between cyborgs and women of color"
• "what happened to the internet after it stopped being a possibility"
• "It’s a good time to start asking what civil inattention looks like on the internet"
• "Twitter bots represent an open-access laboratory for creative programming"
• "these thinkpieces discuss the social and political implications of these pieces without talking about the actual music"

Kitabet:

• 26 Women Share Their Abortion Stories
• “Before I put down my phone, I took a picture of my son. I worried that if I didn’t I would never believe he had existed.”
• Between the Earthquakes and the War
• ?erê Giran: Being a Kurd in the Turkish Prison
• “The severity of the punishments against those who didn’t wear hats must have scared citizens, who started queuing outside shops from the wee hours of the day.”
• J. Alfred Prufrock, in comic-book form
• “Before Hitler, German anatomists had complained to the government for decades about the lack of supply.”
• “We in the Philippines consider ourselves natural-disaster veterans.”
• Messages To and From Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan
• “We need to banish the word “looting” from the English language. It incites madness and obscures realities.”
• James C. Scott on Jared Diamond
• Love Between Giant Hams: Branagh, Whedon, and Much Ado About Nothing
• “Over the next two years, my old man read everything I put in front of him.”
• The Death of Hana Williams, and “an epidemic of failed adoptions.”
• The Impossible Refugee Boatlift to Christmas Island
• Kshama Sawant: "The eyes of the left, nationally and internationally, are on Seattle."
• How to Hide in the 21st Century

 

Nathan Deuel:

• 'I'm sitting on a rusty park bench in Lincoln, Illinois.'
• 'It was Tuesday and Mike Tyson was comparing himself to Machiavelli.' 
• 'In New York, a security guard told him to take the service elevator on account of his appearance.' 
• 'On Nov. 22, 1983, I brought a wounded, comatose [Marine] into the busy Bethesda Naval Hospital emergency room' 
• 'They were no longer toys..We could reach the thermosphere.'
• 'You’ll probably need a license and undergo a background check to fly a drone commercially
• Tina Brown sees potential in live conferences, or "theatrical journalism".
• Google Street View takes on Venice. 

Kerim Friedman:

• The Rise and Fall of the Working Families Party
• Made in China: Notes from the CIA Gift Shop
• James C. Scott reviews 'The World until Yesterday' by Jared Diamond
• For de Blasio, Contract Talks Offer Problem
• Switzerland's Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive
• Which India Matters? by Pankaj Mishra
• The Global Empire
• The neoliberal turn in philanthropy
• Wal-Mart: An economic cancer on our cities

Bint Battuta:

• Nurafkan, an unpublished English manuscript from Lorestan, Iran
• Practising Fractal Shi'i Identities through Muharram Rituals in Mumbai
• "Without Imam Ali, there would be no Najaf"
• Why Arab Iraq survives
• How Iranian pistachio trees were introduced to California
• Baptist missionaries and the formation of Naga political identity
• On baseball in Manipur
• On cricket in China
• China's "good" and "bad" Muslims
• The story of Masaaki Suzuki's Bach cantata cycle
• The experience of Filipina migrants in Japan
• Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds
• The history of Lebanon's Armenian community
• Photos of the Armenian refugee camp in Aleppo, 1922-1936
• A look at the Turkish Red Crescent archives in Ankara
• Gandhi Before India
• Islam’s Bengali avatar
• Cochin Jews celebrate Onam in Israel
• Jewish Sufi Dervishes
• Sundays at Banganga Tank

 

Reclaim UC:

• The real rot at the University of California
• A "historic moment" for campus solidarity
• Hidden hunger: Some students are scrimping, skipping meals to afford a Cal degree
• Smelling opportunity, colleges dabble in fragrances
• On "country club" campuses
• In public education, edge still goes to the rich
• The Arabs of Coachella Valley High School
• Standing for racial justice: Public statement from the organizers of the protest against Ray Kelly at Brown University
• School shootings spark $5 billion security spending
• Universities are colluding with companies to exploit their students and violate labor laws
• "Try not to think too deeply about it"
• Student debt and Wall Street by the numbers
• The pedagogy of negating the institution