Sunday Reading

Kerim Friedman's Sunday Reading contribution morphed into a full-length blog post about the Sunflower Student Movement, currently occupying the Taiwanese legislature. In his place Falahan has rounded up the best articles and blog posts from Taiwan (in Chinese):

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Kitabet:

• “For a fire historian the idea of the Anthropocene is both easy and awkward to accept.”
• The Cities We Lost
• Bracing For The Next Big Quake With L.A.’s New City Seismologist
• Bourj Hammoud: Seeing The City’s Urban Textures and Layered Pasts
• A Broken Silhouette
• How To Read The Syrian Body: Lebanese Racist Ideologies and Politics of Difference
• Weaponized Design: The Water Cannon as a Weapon and Marker
• “Indeed, on the night of Nymphomaniac’s final screening, the hundreds who dodged barricades, water canons, and tear gas to watch made clear that the festival was far from alone.”
• Kongo Versus the Earthquake
• Westerners Gone Wild: Major and Minor Offenses by Foreigners in the Ottoman Empire
• Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: The Egyptian Uprising and a Sufi Khidma
• Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synasthesia
• In Jail With Nazim Hikmet
• The Day The Turkish Government Banned Itself From Twitter

Bint Battuta:

• Unani: Medicine’s Greco-Islamic Synthesis
• Mechanical turks, mammet tricks and messianic time
• Offences committed by foreigners in the Ottoman Empire
• Xenophobia in 17th-century India
• North-south tourism in medieval India
• How WW1 affected Indian Hajj pilgrims
• 19th-century Indian women at a Pennsylvania medical school
• Introduction to Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa
• Little Bangalore
• The politics of the Telugu film industry
• Art of the Islamic World: A Resource for Educators
• Cyrenaica, and Libya’s ancient borders
• Language varieties in Morocco
• The history of Tatar rule in Crimea
• Celebrating Norooz as an Armenian
• The history of British steamships in the Gulf
• Dubaï, capitale économique de l’Iran
• 1953 American film about Iran
• Jean-Paul Sartre on the launch of Libération, 1973
• "We think of our future selves like we think of others: in the third person"
• Returning to Orientalism
• How not to be white on the internet

Nathan Deuel:

• "The sadness smells strong, and it smells like cat food."
• "Parker took the dog to an alley in Hawthorne, ran over it and left it to die." 
• "I'm not worried anymore; give me some cocaine."
• “Essentially it's life support and keeps them going until the nectar flow returns."
• "The waters would be 8-feet deep in San Jose within three hours, potentially killing thousands."
• "We cannot understand their presence, only their absence."
• "The Crimea was the perfect place to finish that book about Russia."
• "It says on here, 'hush, grandma has a flesh-colored bathing suit'" 
• "But the family assured Animal Planet they were going to keep the cat and agreed to therapy with Galaxy."
• "Four seconds: to instruct elevators to open at the nearest floor and alert surgeons to remove scalpels from patients"
• "That was a very scary earthquake. Barkley won’t come out from under the bed :("
• “No one cared about things like religion..We had too many parties to think about.”
• “There’s no such thing as Muslim or Christian cuisine.”
  

Reclaim UC:

Frank Pasquale:

• Rise of the nightmare jobs, coming to a STEM grad near you.
• Computer is computing may be getting Cyc of it.
• The ourobouros of guard labor.
• Milton Friedman as Scrooge McDuck.
• Big data, big deal.
• Modern wealth.
• Behind every fortune...
• Graft in India.
• Psychological and legal perspectives on privacy.
• In the drone colony: "Bug splat!"