Sunday Reading

Frank Pasquale:

• Low-bandwidth nation.
• Expropriators on the run.
• Special treat: a trip to WalMart, to help pay Waltons $1.5 million per hour.
• The failure of Skocpolian generalization.
• Accountable systems.
• Strip & flip.
• Wall Streeter whistling Dixie.
• Modern wealth, measured in milliseconds, a form of cheating, inspires obfuscation all 'round.
• Kafka, redacted.
• Citizen Zuckerberg drives the news.
• Computer-assisted reporting conference in Baltimore & urban big data conference in NYC.

Bint Battuta:

• Simone's Funeral: Egyptian Lives, Jewish Deaths in 21st-Century Cairo
• A requiem for the Jaffna Library
• The future of Hagia Sophia - museum, mosque or church?
• How drunkenness among European troops in 19th-century India led to the expansion of military control
• The tradition of Communist-inspired names in Kerala
• Yaadhum, a film about Tamil Muslim history and identity
• On "pirates", trade, and imperial maritime violence
• The Ottoman Scramble for Africa
• The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World
• Mecca, Mahomet and Cairo in America
• The History of Cartography (University of Chicago Press) in PDF format
• The history of National Geographic's cartographic typefaces
• On designing an Arabic/Persian typeface
• A comparison of Arabic maqams and Persian dastgahs
• Indian rock bands of the 1960s
• T.E. Lawrence's visit to Kerala

ReclaimUC:

• The UC Berkeley scientist who took on a leading herbicide manufacturer
• The grad student union's long history of organizing at NYU
• Fed up with the violence at University of Michigan
• Faculty salaries aren't what's causing tuition hikes
• As tuition increases, so do college bureaucracies
• The Taylorization of the historian's workplace
• On university administrations' collusion with the surveillance state
• Academics in children's books are mostly old, white males
• Nobody likes Obama's college ratings plan
• No-fault evictions, 1997-2013
• "The victims of ETA and Islamic extremism can be remembered, but not the victims of the Spanish government."
• Hate sinks

Mark Healey:

• Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States: a review
• De la fé en las pruebas al elogio de la ciencia lenta
• Casa para Presidente se busca en Chile
• El grotesco papelón del literato, según el novelista Javier Cercas 
• El periodismo según Monsanto
• Un pueblo que nunca fue peronista

Jacob Remes:

• Can a court adjudicate the truth of a religious claim?
• Wildly Popular Accounts Like @HistoryInPics Are Bad for History, Bad for Twitter, and Bad for You.
• The New York State anti-boycott bill is back, and it's spreading to Maryland, Illinois, and Congress.
• Male, Mad and Muddleheaded: Academics in Children's Picture Books
• The problem with recommendation letter inflation
• What going on strike taught one professor about his job and the nature of the university
• Academic pets on strike

Kerim Friedman:

• Half of Sexual Abuse Claims in American Prisons Involve Guards
• Nearly 10 percent of inmates suffer sexual abuse
• The Fascism Lurking Under the Winter Games
• Higher Profits Explain Why There Are More People of Color in Private Prisons
• Man connected to 'Sopranos' strip club takes plea deal in real-life crime drama
• The Torture That Flourishes From Gitmo to an American Supermax
• Supermen of Malegaon
• Ma's Taiwan: Year of the Lame Horse
• If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious
• Reality Denial: Steven Pinker’s Apologetics for Western-Imperial Violence
• Woman in Korea earns over $9K/month eating food in front of her webcam

 

Kitabet:

• Brainwashing Woody
•  “Pete Seeger, who died yesterday, at ninety-four, lived into his posterity.”
• Mourning Tongues: How Auden Was Modified in the Guts of the Living
• Land Art of the Anthropocene
•  “The implication is that every shot of Los Angeles prior to the LED turnover will soon be a valuable historic document, capturing the city in a light that will now be lost forever, its electrical signature seen in the color schemes of every old film and photograph.”
• No Arab Avant-Garde: Popular music in the Arab world
• Islam and the Black Freedom Struggle: An Interview with the After Malcolm Project
• Rhizomes: Graffiti Issue
•  Ideology and Humor in Dark Times: Notes From Syria
• Ghost Towns of Turkey
•  “a group of students and teachers from nearby Public School 48 may have discovered another piece of New York City history…an African slave burial ground.”
• The Torturable Class
• Haiti’s Declaration of Independence: Digging for Lost Documents in the Archives of the Atlantic World
• "Next year in the sky we'll see the bridge; instead of the birds we'll hear the traffic.” 
• Love and Other Secondhand Emotions
•  “For Turkish journalists who have faced government repression, censorship, unemployment or jail time as a result of their work in traditional news media, the Internet has been a lifeline.”
• Once You’re On the No-Fly List, It’s Hard to Get Off
• Simulating Iraq