Sunday Reading

Mark Healey:

Starting points

• George Ciccarello-Maher: #LaSalida? Venezuela at a Crossroads
• David Smilde:  Q-and-A About Venezuelan Crisis
• In the business of death: a Venezuelan photo essay

 

Bolivarian Twitterpolitics

• Borrowed Images
• The Revolution Will Be Tweeted (the inevitable lede)

 

Musical Militancy

• Carta de Rubén Blades a Nicolás Maduro
• Nicolás Maduro responde a Ruben Bladés (y muestra su camiseta de Lenin)
• Jorge Drexler publica carta de su prima venezolana

 

Social Geographies of Protest

• Francisco Toro: Spoiler Alert
• Las protestas vistas desde los barrios pobres (y chavistas)
• Anticiudadano: Sobre el 23 de enero, bastión del chavismo
• Margarita López Maya: Los días en que la calle pisoteó el carisma
• Luis Vicente León: Los días que vienen

Kerim Friedman:

• Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.
• NSF Report Flawed; Americans Do Not Believe Astrology is Scientific
• A cartographic history of why North, not East or South, is up
• Hegemony begins in the workplace
• I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society
• Online Archive of a Human Zoos
• Debunking the myth of Kitty Genovese

Kitabet:

• “Last Breath is described as a series of ‘unofficial pre-demolition celebrations.’”
• Doing Anthropology in Public
• The War on Bread
• “I want to consider what is missing from accounts of Cavafy and cosmopolitanism that focus on public history, rather than the more private experience of reading poems.”
• Who’s Afraid of Ruins?
• Architectural Fictions: Renderings, Rats, and the Virtualization of Urban Space [pdf]
• “The most evocative images in #SANDY disrupt a central convention of disaster photography.”
• Impossible Cities
• A Dictator’s Guide to Urban Design
• “I live in a set in an Oxford college and have a low tightrope strung across my study.”
• What’s Happening in Turkey?
• Bathing in the Bosphorus
• “Two articles discuss the writing of Afrikaans in Arabic script, which – hard as it may seem to believe – predates its writing in Latin script.”
• David Harvey’s “Reading Marx’s Capital” in 38 Languages
• How Hard Has Your Zip Code Shaken?
• “What we know, in this post-Robert Moses era, is that no matter how many roads you build, they always reach their maximum capacity.”
• Moral Panics, Sex Panics, and the Production of a Lebanese Nation
• Rights of Return: Spain, Jews, and the Palestinians
• “What does it mean to come to the Maidan?”

Reclaim UC:

• UC endowment has worst investment returns among largest US college funds
• Academic freedom with violence
• Securitization and the university
• What comes after the public university?
• The dark power of fraternities
• Upton Sinclair on college presidents
• Contextualizing the UIC strike
• "Through workplace reappropriation I was able to pay a year’s worth of university tuition fees…"
• The academic writing thing
• The awfulness of Pablo Neruda
• "Another dubious first for America: We now employ as many private security guards as high school teachers."
• Nice unions finish last
• "[P]ower doesn’t come from friendly campaigns and negotiating with management."
• The testing ground for the new surveillance: Oakland, CA
• Disaster communism

Frank Pasquale:

• Jobs of the future: guard labor and grooming labor.
• For every dollar of investment it directs, the financial sector costs forty-five cents.
• Who will control geoengineering?
• Bond kingpin calls China "mystery meat."
  Banks cash in on mass poverty.
• Market freedom: boss watches you all the time.
• Libertarians acknowledge merits of Canadian banking system.
• Author gets $12K; app'er gets $6,500,000,000
• Google is the new Exxon, quite figuratively.
• What financialization means.
• The 1% took 68% of all personal income growth between 1993 and 2012.
• Drone-cop on the way.

Bint Battuta:

• Qatif and the Gulf on maps from the Renaissance to the Cold War
• Bombay Place-Names and Street-Names (1917)
• A visit to the Imamwada Road in Mumbai
• The 2002 Gujarat riots from a Jewish Indian’s perspective
• A legend about Kerala's monsoons
• 1770 recipe "To make a currey the Indian way"
• A 17th-century Bengal colcha commissioned by the Portuguese
• Some digital resources for Ottoman and Turkish history
• Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s trip to Israel in 1964
• Preserving the Syriac language in Iraq
• A Farewell to ?: Living Language Reform in Turkey
• 1918 Yiddish book for learning Palestinian Arabic
• The various words used for "fear" in the Qur'an
• The English expressions coined in WW1
• Indian Faces of the Great War
• US Propaganda in Post-WW2 Bahrain
• Britain's first black community
• Religion in European migration studies
• Soviet orientalism and politics in Central Asia

Nathan Deuel:

• "She picked me up in a taxi on Rue Jacob ..'Literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death.' " 
• "If this had happened in Washington, the whole place would have been closed." 
• "The next morning my aunt called a doctor. A bit pointless, I thought, I will kill myself soon."
• "Putting on an awkward rhinoceros horn is more comfortable than risking losing everything in the name of freedom."
• "Dean does believe, however, that she could be responsible for the murder of perhaps one other person."
• "No one comes here anymore for coffee because they are afraid."
• "Anyone hawking that sort of revolution has never seen what socialism produced in the suburbs of Moscow."
• "It was only after that decree that many people in Lebanon realized they had athletes competing at the Winter Games." 
• “Packs of Chihuahuas running loose in Phoenix.”

Karen Gregory:

• MTA Suspends Plan to Sweep Out Homeless / NYPD still need monitoring
• “Vacated” is a walking tour of the changing urban landscape during the Bloomberg administration.
• "Black struggles for freedom created an epistemological crisis for the whole country" 
• Remembering Stuart Hall 
• "I pointed out recently on Facebook that all the speakers for a Gender Studies conference were white."
• "What are you left with, then, when you walk away from the work?"
• Who should get promoted? 
• Keep Calm and Do Anthropology
• Spatial Feminism
• Revisiting the voice in media and as medium
• "My current research looks at the epistemological transformation of the poltergeist phenomenon that took place after the Second World War"
• Living Labor: Marxism and Performance 
• "We are all threatened by the prospect of our imminent obsolescence."
• "New Deal dreams did not immediately yield sprawling democratically-minded institutions."
• "Lost amid the current worries over the future of public sector bargaining is what’s already gone missing"
• Anatomy of the Deep State

Jacob Remes:

• 18,520 ghost stories
• Observantly Jewish and anti-Israel
• A Venezuela protest primer
• Looking for fascists in Kyiv
• Canada's new election bill
• Radical credit
• A Piven and Cloward Strategy for the Labor Movement?
• An executive pay cap for a college
• Comparing massive wealth over the longue duree
• "The job of a professor is not the same as 'being smart.'"
• From Ellen DeGeneres to Ellen Page, or why celebrity comings-out still matter
• Moses Asch: A Stubborn Man 

Linda Rodriguez:

• "Forty-five years later, we have yet to fully grasp the idea that African American Studies is central, not peripheral, to our mission as knowledge producers."
• La economía cubana sin Venezuela
• Nació el afro-feminismo queer cubano
• Toward a nuanced, feminist discussion on Venezuela