Sunday Reading

L.D. Burnett:

• "I’m here, at a small 'university,' watching a purge of the work of thousands of intellects."
• Every number of Partisan Review digitized, online, and free
• This Old Man
• "An astonishing historical achievement really matters."
• Twelve Fixed, Eternal Commandments for Academic Job Candidates
• I Was Born For This: Breaking My Silence on Black Colleges
• The Medical Community's Hidden Abortion-Training War
• Behind the Music: Jimmy Thudpucker's Greatest Hits

Kerim Friedman:

• China in ‘House of Cards’
• House of Cards: Frank's Wife
• "It's almost two hundred years later and I'm still retreating from Moscow."
• Chomsky On Academic Labor
• The Doctor and the Saint (Roy on Gandhi and Ambedkar)
• Polynesian seafarers discovered America long before Europeans, says DNA study (of sweet potatoes)
• Where Time Comes From
• The Public Voice of Women
• On Full Communism
• Is Venezuela Burning?
• Eight Myths about Culture and Caste
• Yasukuni and the Enshrinement of War Criminals

Bint Battuta:

• Arabic encyclopaedism in the 14th century
• The earliest Arabic translations of the Bible
• A brief history of globes
• The creation of Egypt's Belle Époque
• Nostalgia for Algeria's Belle Époque
• The "appropriation" of yoga in the United States
• The politics of "Jerusalem: A Cookbook"
• The Portuguese influence on Indian cuisine
• The African influence on Khaleeji music
• A Greek village with African roots
• Indo-Danish Cultural Encounters in Tranquebar
• The first Sikh temple in Dubai
• Popular Islam and Shared Devotion in South India
• A Bangalore dargah where Hindus and Muslims worship
• The portrayal of Muslim women as victims
• Lahore's bodybuilders
• Wanted posters in Mumbai
• On Malayalam and Melancholia
• On Mata Hari and Malabar
• Ottoman Poland
• Yanukovich, lover of books
• The career of Charles Dalrymple Belgrave in Bahrain
• The death of John Gordon Lorimer in Bushehr
• What Russians and Ukrainians call each other

Karen Gregory:

• How can we account for the current crisis and condition of indebtedness in which we live?
• Contract and Contagion is particularly helpful as we come to see ourselves as new laboring subjects/entities in a shifting political economy
• Algorithms and Future Crimes
• Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing
• Ann Landers on Google Glass
• When forecasts are not really forecasts
• Obfuscation-- strategies whereby ‘individuals, groups or communities hide, protect themselves, protest or enact civil disobedience, especially in the context of monitoring, aggregated analysis, and profiling in (digital) space’
• South Carolina House of Representatives has withdrawn $52,000 from the College of Charleston for including Alison Bechdel’s brilliant, celebrated memoir Fun Home in its summer reading program
• True Detective and the Dead Woman's Photograph
• Hundreds of Fake Papers Flooding Academia
• Remembering Chokwe Lumumba  
• Carole Vance Fired at Columbia

Nathan Deuel:

• “It’s quite normal,” he said. “But he was unlucky.”
• “Californians haven’t seen rain and wind this powerful in 3 years."
• "The star of films such as 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' stressed..the vital contribution being made by Lebanon."
• "I didn’t know any playwrights, and the idea of being one seemed obscure."
• "Nobody’s fully successful, and no one’s fully a failure." 
• “There’s no future here. Maybe I need to go away and live peacefully.”
• "We have 33 koi fish imported from Japan, and they all have names." 
• She found him smelling one of their pillows. He started crying that he “just wanted to feel alive again.”
• "He was like the campfire that we all gathered around for light and warmth and knowledge."
• "He's going on 85 and he's on a roll. He's not fixing anything around the house anymore, he just wants to read."
• "As long as these letters don’t turn into vigilante efforts… then it makes sense.” 
• "There's already gonna be a thing that makes a sound...why not make it the nice sound?"
• "Every meal shouldn’t be a flask of scotch."

Jacob Remes:

• "My grandmother...had to be taught to speak of 'us' as Jews and 'them' as Arabs."
• “I’m not going to pretend that Jeremiah is only speaking metaphorically when he says a society that fails to care for the poor is doomed.”
• "We don’t need to wear a turban, a kippa or a hijab to know that the Charter is an attack on all minorities."
• "Improving lifestyles is more about improving inequality within a society, and less about criticizing people for poor choices."
• “People have gone through dramatic changes of their environment. As a result, people who would not have died are dying.”
• How metrics created a fake-paper crisis in the sciences
• "Be chill and don’t be a downer, act like a dude but look like a supermodel."
• "What Are Straight While Male Feminists Worrying About?"

Frank Pasquale:

• American workers need skills to achieve subsistence.
• Race to the top as dehumanizing repetition.
• Caring about the earth = terrorism.
• For the CBO, the working poor, the uninsured, and students are nonpersons. And society is better off with "euthanasia by budget."
• Unreproducible digitization; irreproducible result?
• Deep state feudalism, and it's only getting worse.
• Split the payment system utility from banks' gambling.

ReclaimUC:

• Real placement rates for Ph.D. programs in German, 2007-2013
• "[W]hat parents and educators so often labeled as peer pressure was actually the disease-like spread of ideas"
• Unionize college football
• "[W]riting for popular audiences is not solely an internal passion, but has actually become an external demand of young scholars, another metric by which their job application or tenure-file is evaluated"
• "Flanagan’s 15,000-word essay attacks building codes and binge drinking instead of taking a closer look at the real 'dark' side of Greek life: institutional class privilege, racism and sexism"
• SIC—International Journal for Communisation, Issue 2
• Not survival only
• How slavery made the modern world
• "At the end of 2009, the year from which these three dances issue, the unemployment rate for black youth rose to 50%. . . . The dance in this sense is a conversation with Detroit and Athens, Madrid and Dhaka, with the favelas of São Paulo."

Kitabet:

• “Nowhereisland: the name itself is a challenge to what we expect from a nation, a country, an island." 
• The Bowl, the Ram, and the Folded Map: Navigating the Complicated World
• The Edward W. Said Reading Room Tumblr
• White-Washing the Water Cannon: Salesmen, Scientific Experts, and Human Rights Abuses
• Jerusalem: a Study in Purpose, Pleasure, Politics and Perspective
• "Someone – or a lot of someones – appears to be compiling a surreptitious oral history of Turkish society, starting with the very top."
• Zoologic Darwinism and the Origins of World War One: The Mussaver Tarif-i Hayvanat
• Pretty Much Every Dangerous Material You Can Think of Is Being Shipped Through the Bosphorus
• "Amazon’s system of employee monitoring is the most oppressive I have ever come across." 
• Are Model Railways a Form of Fanfic?
• "one of the gravest threats the FBI saw in the Black Panther movement was their Free Children’s Breakfast Program." 
• Happy Fifty Years, Gentrification!
• Treasure Island Cleanup Exposes Navy’s Mishandling of its Nuclear Past
• "Brief as they are, such hints suggest a surprisingly rich hidden narrative for black people in Elizabethan England."
• 18 might-have-been cover designs for The Time Regulation Institute
• The Pepys Diary Erasure Project

Mark Healey:

• Letras latinoamericanas en NYC: Centro del deseo, centro-espejo, centro que nunca duerme
• Sobre el mito Bolaño
• Narco 1: El manantial masacrado
• Narco 2: El pueblo del Chapo Guzmán
• Narco 3: La narco máquina ya no necesita Chapos
• Chile 1:  Avaricia e ingenio de la derecha: Centro de Estudios para la Democracia Popular
• Chile 2:  La ola maldita: A cuatro años del terremoto

 

Violencias

• Entrevista a Juancho Montoya: Visión política de los colectivos chavistas
• Fue una encerrona: masacres del 12-F

 

Caracazo

• Margarita López Maya: A 25 años del Caracazo
• Juan Nagel, 25 Years of Hatred

 

Protestas

• Lisette González: Trancar o no trancar, he aquí el dilema
• Luigini Bracci:  La Guardia Nacional y Geraldine Moreno
• Rebecca Hanson: Venezuelan Protests Viewed From Western Caracas