Sunday Reading

Kitabet:

• The Decay of Digital Things
• Cavity Searches in International Relations
• “What interests me most is that this same word — “pass” — signifies identity trouble and a moving through or around; it’s no wonder we use it as a euphemism for dying.”
• Access Main Computer File: a visual archive of fake UI 
• Succeeding in Graduate School Despite Poverty
• The Sciences Sing a Lullaby
• “Those residents saw how laws meant to protect Turks and their cities—laws about earthquake preparedness and historical preservation—had been employed to strip them of property rights.”
• Architectural Renderings for a Riot
• Be Not Afraid
• “Never will I ask for this hospitality again, because the right for a young parent to enter the university library with his or her baby should not be left to hospitality…”
• A 1968 Esquire interview with James Baldwin
• Of Shifting Rivers, Shipwrecked Colonialists, and Calcutta
• The Allure of the Map
• “But for years, I’ve watched from inside and out while the place I grew up in, the place where many people I love still live, got sold out and scorched and plowed under and poisoned and filled with smoke.
• Raags to Riches: Globalism and Vernacular in Contemporary Pakistani Rap
•  A History of Inwood’s 215th Street Incinerator Smokestacks

Reclaim UC:

• The Napolitano files
• Demographic data and "student prospecting"
• Tenured bosses and disposable teachers
• "I am a thief—I stole this time from my students’ essays."
• Campus police forces increasingly expand reach
• "The role of the professor now is part party host, part traffic cop, full-time enabler."
• "…a snakepit of personal venom, religious bigotry and thinly disguised calls for violence."
• Think being an adjunct professor is hard? Try being a black adjunct professor.
• The race problem in America's school discipline
• How nonviolent was the civil rights movement?
• Restoring King
• In defense of militant anti-Google protests

Kerim Friedman:

• "Every time I see an article advocating marriage as a solution to poverty…"
• The Truths Behind 'Dr. Strangelove'
• Carthaginians sacrificed own children
• Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath
• Simply offering apartments to those who lack a home…
• The Pronunciation of 'Smaug'
• Why are Muslims in Ahmedabad's largest ghetto angry?
• Why 'NYT' Spiked Famous MLK, Jr. Piece
• The [academic job] market’s always been bad? Not so fast…
• A reader’s guide to the “ontological turn”
• The US Is Still the Only Industrialized Nation Without Maternity Leave
• The four cutest ways to photograph yourself hugging third-world children
• In the Name of Love
• Overuse and Abuse of Adjuncts Threaten Academic Values
• We Didn’t Eat the Marshmallow. The Marshmallow Ate Us.
• ‘Humanitarianism is as culpable as war’
• Australia, we're not racist but...

Linda Rodriguez:

• “Tener ‘la teta asustada,’ significa ‘tener la leche materna con rabia, sufrimiento, tristeza.’” 
• "En su fase neoliberal, el capitalismo implementa, como nunca en su historia, la mercantilizacion de todos los espacios sociales.”
• “Ernesto se ha dedicado a recorrer la isla de punta a punta, buscando aparatos electrónicos o cualquier elemento que refleje la destreza manual y la creatividad de los cubanos en esos años, pues asegura que ‘mientras más severa es la crisis, más poderosa es la creatividad de las personas.’”
• “Dado este contexto, decidí crear The Other Market (El Otro Mercado). The Other Market es una plataforma, materializada en una red de carretas y puestos, para intercambiar productos y servicios sin dinero, utilizando el diálogo como moneda.”
• Autodefensas: en México hemos tocado fondo
• Why I’m Not an Afropolitan
• Are Mexico’s Armed Citizens “Vigilantes”?
• “‘Of course, I’m thrilled,’ Weems said, several days before the show opened. ‘I’m the first African-American woman to have a retrospective at the Guggenheim. Not to sound pretentious, but I should be having a show there. By now, it should be a moot point for a black artist—but it’s not.’”
• “Soul Train’s devotees seized every moment, kicking their platform shoes and spinning in bell-bottoms like visitors from a funkier dimension, enlightened beings who came to earth to inspire feats like the “moonwalk,” a dance that Michael Jackson mastered by observing Soul Train veterans like Jeffery Daniel.”
• Those African Olmecs: or the Case of Pro-fitting the Pre-Columbian Past with Our Politics
• Is the United States a “Racial Democracy”?

Jacob Remes:

• Against an easy, domesticated Martin Luther King
• "UNB seems to have adopted the fashionable ideology of accumulating wealth and placing it at the disposal of a narrow circle of decideurs, while generously sharing manufactured debt." [pdf]
• A war on women's knowledge
• Trans Pacific Putsch
• Against the outrage machine
• Read the comments
• Folk cartography
• An Illustrated Account of The Great Maple Syrup Heist

Bint Battuta:

• The Soviet collectivization of bathhouses and the mass production of hygiene
• Of shifting rivers, shipwrecked colonialists, and Calcutta
• Bandel Cheese: The Taste of Portugal in Bengal
• The Hindu temple in Bandar Abbas, Iran
• Two Indic loanwords in medieval Judaeo-Arabic
• Byron, student of Armenian
• Vicipædia (Latin Wikipedia) reaches more than 100,000 articles
• Otto Koenigsberger and Tata & Sons: architecture and industry in 1940s India
• Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept
• On animals in the Qur'an
• The history of the "Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran" digital archive
• Shanghai family looks after Jewish refugee's books for 70 years
• The Royal Enfield Bullet, and India’s leisure motorcycling boom
• Queen Elizabeth II in Bangalore in 1961
• London's Algerian Coffee Stores
• Verdi's Requiem conducted by Claudio Abbado, 1970