Sunday Reading

Karen Gregory:

• “Thinking I was becoming psychic, I investigated groups that helped develop psychic powers “
• "We want the best, not the followers." 
• “At stake was the right of one anonymous account to own and be credited for words”
• “What we need is the courage to put work itself at risk”
• Does finance “speak” to the individual? 
• Amazon Workers on Strike in Germany:
• Pay It Forward, Pay It Back: Matt Bruenig and Mike Konczal Debate
• “Femininity–the gender ideal and norm–is the technology”
• Marriage Will Never Set Us Free
• Somatic Capitalism: Reproduction, Futurity, and Feminist Science Fiction
• “War as a relational ontology”
• “MRWaSP is an upgrade on WASP”
• “There is a security mentality that has come through CUNY.”
• “Because the class war doesn’t show any sign of stopping soon.”
• A Higher Wage is Possible
• Striking Works Better Than Laws
• B-Grade Politics

Frank Pasquale:

• About 10 rationales for shrinking finance.
• "I hope you realize that it's the people at the bottom of the totem pole that make your life possible."
• Making a place for the poor.
• The SEC has a very happy Thanksgiving.
• Milton Friedman's long shadow.
• The stalker economy.
• Canada needs maverick internet brands.
• Google's workers are mainly Democrats, but its leaders...
• London Mayor speaks capital's mind; draws satire; called on to take IQ test.
• Today's corporate leadership is like a Pitbull/Ke$ha collabo.
• The quantified self conceives of Turkey Day as body debt.
• Wall St & Silicon Valley merge in Bitcoin.
• The quiet desperation of the TaskRabbit.

ReclaimUC:

• Your education is not more important than any other struggle
• Zombie MOOCs
• Teaching while black and blue
• The eliminative turn in education
• A ghost town with a quad
• On the institutionalization of activism on college campuses
• Pay-it-forward or pay-it-yourself?
• Gothic politics
• Police eyes
• The thick blue line
• Austerity and authoritarianism
• "[E]very time someone is released from the dungeon, we must celebrate"
• The Alcatraz proclamation, by Indians of All Tribes

Bint Battuta:

• Medicine and Modernity: The Ayurvedic Revival Movement in India, 1885-1947
• When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible
• Sanjay Subrahmanyam on world historians in the sixteenth century
• Measuring by the bushel: reweighing the Indian Ocean pepper trade
• The story of Omani sowt singer Salim Rashid Suri, the Singing Sailor
• The depiction of clandestine migration in North African rap
• The Elusive Quest for Gulf Security (1987)
• Restoring 1970s Tel al-Zaatar footage from the PLO film unit
• A Syrian version of Euripides’ The Trojan Women
• Soviet-Indian Coproductions: Alibaba as Political Allegory
• Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal
• Arabi Malayalam, Malayalam written in Arabic script
• I am Gulf: The production of cosmopolitanism among the Koyas of Kozhikode, Kerala
• The struggles of Thanjavur’s Tamil University
• Interview with Lakshmi Holmström, translator of Tamil literature
• A look at the origins and organisation of Indian scripts
• The Ethnic Composition of the "Iranian" Nobility at Akbar's Court
• Houshamadyan: a project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life
• Chips Oman sandwich, "the UAE’s culinary equivalent of a hug"
• Translating for My Mother

Aaron Bady:

• Notes On A Theory Of Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, aka MRWaSP
• Keeping Postage Public
• Settler Normativity and American Football
• Mapping the Margins
• Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In
• Glenn Greewald responds to Mark Ames
• The Good Must Associate Or Fall
• The Tyranny of Intermediaries
• The Afropolitan Must Go
• Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future
• Before They Resurrect the Noble Savage
• Femininity as a technology: some thoughts on hyperemployment

Jacob Remes:

• Symbolism in novels, as described by novelists
• For God and Hobby Lobby
• A genetic history of American metissage
• “We saw the iron fist of the Abe cabinet under its velvet glove,” domestic edition
• Abe's iron fist, foreign edition
• What should North Americans learn from Typhoon Haiyan?
• The longue duree

Kerim Friedman:

• A feast of hatred
• Sorry, neoliberals: Inequality is driven by greed, not technology
• Video of people taking the American dialect survey
• How To Sharpen Pencils, An Instructional Film on Proper Sharpening Technique
• Revealed: the bonfire of papers at the end of Empire
• China, and the soaring price of Bitcoin
• There is no STEM shortage. In fact, there’s a surplus.
• Innocent home videos are becoming Pakistani 'porn' on YouTube and destroying lives
• 'Pay It Forward' Tuition Plan: Good Step or False Move?
• Medical Myths and Healing History: Hinrichs and Barnes’s Chinese Medicine
• Portrait of Deng as Reformer in 1978 Plenum Ignores History
• How Nostalgia of Penn Station Plays Into Our Love of Buildings Old and New

Nathan Deuel:

• “There is a slang I love: 'drop dead gorgeous.' In my culture..my parents told me 'don’t use dead.'"
• "A Lebanese man, identified only by his last name as Sultan, was collecting various types of old shells, grenades and rockets from an empty lot close to the Iranian Embassy."
• "Farmers have often taken up arms to defend their crop — growers fired a rocket at an eradication team in 2012...It’s a gift from God. Can we oppose God?"
• "It was literally out of nowhere," he said. "I look at him and his eyes were dilated, and it's like, 'Uh-oh.'"
• "It's hard to have a dialogue with people screaming into a megaphone."
• "Even as my only fridge, I find its size adequate for me as a single person."

Kitabet:

• Body Snatchers of Old New York
• The Cross-Dressing Reenactors of Gettysburg
• “Yes, in Texas once a woman is vaginally hemorrhaging, it is legal for me to help her.”
• Houshamadyan: a project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life
• Beyond Open Access: understanding science’s closures
• Clandestino Rap: The Voice of Permanent Limbo
•  “While thousands of files were returned to London during the process of decolonisation, it is now clear that countless numbers of documents were destroyed.”
• The Life and Death of Juliano Mer-Khamis
• Ramachandra Guha on Eric Hobsbawm’s last book
• “Prison crews, cheap and dependable, have emerged as a solution as wildfires burn bigger, hotter and longer each year and take up a growing portion of the United States Forest Service budget.”
• Goodbye to All That: On Writing Obituaries
•  “Leiter’s best photographs lack all pretense, and are full of a productive doubt.”
• A Nuclear Blast at 30,000 Feet, 1962
• A British Teacher’s Archive of Confiscated Toys
• On ontology: “The term was not everywhere at the AAAs, but it was used consistently, ambitiously, audaciously, and almost totally unironically to offer anthropology something that it (supposedly) hasn’t had in a long time.” 
• The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday: in the belly of the online shopping beast.
• Lessons From Somewhere: “ fashioning a relational urban theory that is cognisant of the role of place.”
• 1001 Chairs in Cairo
• Out of Syria, Into a European Maze