Sunday Reading

Horse_ebooks:

• How to Conquer Pain Once and For All by Attacking the Source and Do It
• to sign documents that you don t understand, and these are no exception
• Why women sometimes
• and Dalton have long ago shown the coexistence of these two-fold crossing currents of air, even through
• You don t need to spend big money at a restaurant to enjoy mouth
• I never craved fast food and actually even thinking about it
• I was terrified! I spent 3 days at the library trying to figure out what I was expected to say! The challenge is that in
• That s how I am able to bring you this priceless offer of original Claude

Kerim Friedman:

• The conflict hinged on a single word: “gravy.”
• “The word “riot” is so dull, it doesn’t really explain what happened does it?”
• “male mortality mostly improved or stayed the same… but female mortality increased in 43 percent”
• Scared little baby elephant.
• “This is the second time workers at fast-food restaurants around the city have walked off the job in the past six months.”
• “Roger Ebert Hails Human Existence As ‘A Triumph’”
• McDonald’s job listing (for a cashier) demands a BA degree and two years experience…
• “Complexity, as it turns out, is not particularly viral.”
• Are China’s Colleges Too Easy?
• Supreme Court declines to hear Ward Churchill’s appeal.
• “At times Kant could not find the street where he lived because he was so inebriated.”
• Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosawa
• “the carbon reduction achieved during the Obama administration-supported natural gas boom may be a Pyrrhic victory”
• Childhood in New York
• “An octopus -a fairly big octopus- making its way back to sea by squeezing through a tiny hole.”
• “Imagine for a moment if a loved one found themselves in legal jeopardy in some foreign country that had a 99% conviction rate.”
• Appendix Isn’t Useless At All: It’s A Safe House For Good Bacteria
• “But if these colleges are truly committed to diversity, they have to start paying attention to the rural poor.”
• “examples of the clumsy wielding of real power, which is organized with precision by the standardized test format”
• Diversity not “just a kind of dutiful exercise… It created tangible…rewards.”

T.F. Charlton:

• What Kind of African Doesn't Speak Any African Languages? Me.
• Joan Walsh vs. Roger Ebert: White Folks Writing About White Folks
• Booker DeWitt and the Case of the Young White Lady Feels: a Bioshock Infinite review
• Can Africans have multiple subcultures? A response to “Exorcising Afropolitanism”
• Sexual Assault and Disability
• Asian Americans and the Color of Christ
• Black Unemployment Driven by White America's Favors For Friends

All things sports:

• Kevin Ware T-shirt debacle another example of why NCAA's business model is under attack
• The fear and loathing behind the Brittney Griner NBA tryout backlash [and more on Griner]
• Jack Johnson and the Politics of a Presidential Pardon
• "In locker rooms, insubordination is a worse crime than abuse of authority." On Mike Rice and coach abuse, by YT.
• Further context from the NYT: Rutgers Officials Long Knew of Coach's Actions
• And John Amaechi on sports' bully culture
• From the Let's Talk About Names series (disclaimer: edited by yours truly and Jessica Luther):
• Dying with no name, the Nomen Nescio of Europe
• "Our 'real names' (our birth names) reflect cultural notions of gender themselves…"

Reclaim UC:

• UCLA, LAPD, and predictive policing
• The no-faculty, all-administrative university
• How university administrators lie to students
• What's it like living with six figures of student debt?
• The high-tuition/high-aid funding model, favored by privatizers everywhere, doesn't work
• DC students use "guerrilla photography" to combat school security
• "Bullies are real but they are also mythical."
• "Don't go to grad school!" screeds ignores race and reality not to mention student organizing, agitating, and resistance
• Four dispatches from the anti-privatization struggle at Sussex University
• "I hear a lot of people asking why there isn't more resistance going on. Well, here's why. There was resistance, and it was brutally and systematically put down."
• "From paywalls to jargon to a tacit moratorium on social media, academics build careers through public disengagement."
• "Students in [Kyron] Birdine's year were, in other words, being used as a data source to help calibrate the new test."
• Real college classes have writing assignments and required reading
• Imagining non-work

Bint Battuta:

• On East-West Dialogue
• The Greek history of Odessa
• Sikhs in Shanghai
• Ezyara: A Journey to Jewish Iraqi-Kurdistan
• The Many Arabics of Politics
• Where Is the Caucasus?
• Ottoman Go-Betweens: An Armenian Merchant from Poland Visits Safavid Iran [podcast]
• The experience of Emiratis who have a foreign mother
• British Pathé footage of Palestine
• The history of segregation in cities
• 1966 film depicting the life of prostitutes in Tehran's brothel district
• Impact of Transnational Experiences: The Case of Yemeni Artists in the Soviet Union
• Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition
• Easter Celebrations at the Mughal Court
• Viral Occupation: Cameras and Networked Human Rights in the West Bank
• The Trans-Border Traffic of Afghan Modernism: Afghanistan and the Indian Urdusphere
• Looking at words for "sand" in Arabic
• Remembering A Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography
• On songs by an indentured labourer in British Guiana, published in 1916
• The story of the Arab Comics website
• Laying Claim to Beirut: Urban Narrative & Spatial Identity in the Age of Solidere
• "This moment marked the beginning of environmentalism, entangled from its naissance with the interests of empire"
• The Banality of Brutality: British Armed Forces and the Repression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-39 [pdf]
• When Arab stock photos go terribly wrong

nathan jurgenson

• "There's a strong, specifically technocratic conflation between efficiency and good in Silicon Valley"
• "Drones date online, but drones don’t think about it the way that humans do"
• "The Work of Art in the Age of the Internet"
• "We have a billion folks using our services now, and we want to get to 3 or 5 billion one day"
• "Throughout Zuckerberg's talk, people and Facebook friends were used interchangeably"
• "there is general, assumed agreement on what social media is even as there is significant doubt as to whether society exists"
• "There’s a stereotypical Pinterest user and I can’t escape the feeling that it is what I have become"
• "The Like button tears aside this veil to reveal the cloying, pathetic, Willy Lomanesque need of marketers to have their brands be well-liked"
• "It’s impossible to think of the performance of femininity without considering the ways that the performance is an exercise in stigma management. And it’s impossible to think of the ways women manage the stigma of their bodies without looking at fashion and beauty"
• "Human life as a competitor to work is the threat here, and it must be captured for corporate use, much in the way that Facebook treats users’ personal activities as a series of opportunities to fill out the Facebook-owned social graph"
• "Unwanted pregnancy feels like womanhood at its most hateful and cowlike—the broodmare inside the bombshell. You are yourself, full of wit and dreams and adventure. But biology is conspiring against you, to sicken and trap you. Nature cares nothing for individuals"

Frank Pasquale:

Why every penny you've allocated to NPR should go to The New Inquiry edition:

• 8 former Commissioners of the Social Security Administration discuss "the dangers of mischaracterizing the disability programs via sensational, anecdote-based media accounts" from NPR.
• Facile extrapolation at NPR; fun for the whole Joffe-Walt Family.
• Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities rebuts NPR.
• Respected Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law says: "Tell NPR to Retracted its Startlingly Distorted Series on Disability Programs."
• NPR is getting the disability story "incredibly, tragically wrong."
• The disability "program is also a lot more stringent than" NPR would have you believe.
• Breitbart celebrates NPR; new CNN-style alliance possible?

And now back to regular programming:

• "A cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts."
• SpyKids, for profitz.
• Dem deregulator rebrands laissez-faire.
• The miracle of the loaven fishes.
• "In a physical classroom I learn new things from my students every day"
• Jean ValPepperSpray protects the subway; Officer Friendly threatens a broken arm.
• Criminalizing reporting at the Arkansas sacrifice zone.
• 140K?--"To me you are basically a billionaire;" 250K?--"that’s to me like people who hit the lottery;” & JW Mason puts it all in perspective.
• Dodd-Frank's death by a thousand lobbyists.
• Technology magnifies power for Kafka's HR.
• Former SEC chair joins Promontory despite exposes blasting firm.
• Governing Algorithms: a conference.

Jacob Remes:

• "Urban sharecropping" and "panhandling on wheels" (Series)
• Fukushima cleanup workers making $10 a day.
• The uncanny mascot of Okazaki City.
• The decline of the Hollywood sex scene.
• "A visit to an abortion clinic is often a middle class girl's only brush with the brusque, painful care that is the lot of America's poor."

L.E. Long:

• Stitchin' not Snitchin'
• Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy
• "White supremacy is an aspirational politics."
• The Microhistorian
• "#1 “Fuck the Police” is Pretty Much his Definition of Politics"
• Ghosts are real
• Women who can cry at work
• "I never attacked anyone weak."
• a methodical interpretation of the first two chapters of A Thousand Plateaus
• The shadowy story of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
• dys4ia: a game about gender
• YOLO :) and its No Future implications
• Creation under Capitalism
• Bodies That Matter: The African History of Naked Protest, FEMEN Aside
• OOO: A subject with a great past
• "Duran and Olejnik are keenly aware that they are lucky compared to their fellow prisoners"
• Predator alert for OkCupid
• "patrol the peace" is a particularly impressive construction
• "What's also notable about the Communications Management Units is who is sent there."
• (The above article resulted in its author's arrest)
• Restorative justice in Jamaica and the white savior complex
• An Hourglass Figure: On Photographer Francesca Woodman, by Ariana Reines
• Landscape Values: How a painting influenced land use
• my child worries about the future