Sunday Reading

/kaw·re?d?/:

• Tapada limeña: Theories of the origin of la Saya y el Manto
• Soda as Politick
• "can the postcolonial EAT, BLOG, LOVE?"
• Toni Morrison: can we find paradise on Earth?
• Echo-Chamber of Freedom: The Muslim Woman and The Pretext of Agency
• Too brown to be heard: The Brunei brouhaha
• The Empty Promise of State-Sponsored Feminism in the Arabian Peninsula
• Post-Racial Ironies and Counterfactual Histories: a commentary on hipsters
• On the Continuing Significance of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to Postcolonial Theorizing by Asian Women

Kerim Friedman:

• How A Troublesome Inheritance gets human genetics wrong
• Piketty’s Fair-Weather Friends
• The Price of a Sex-Slave Rescue Fantasy
• Slavoj Žižek comments on Thomas Piketty
• It is Impossible to Believe How Mindblowing These Amazing New Jobs Are
• Mad Men and the Persistence of the Old Regime
• Clever Birds Have Figured out How to Use an Automatic Door in a Bike Parking Garage
• Trafficked Teachers: Neoliberalism’s Latest Labor Source
• David Harvey: Afterthoughts on Piketty’s Capital
• Mexican rebel leader Marcos retires, says 'no longer exists'
• The Skull

Frank Pasquale:

• Climate change is killing the baby puffins.
• Micro-entrepreneur for nano-pay.
• Transparency as Potemkin regulation.
• Massive drug shortages, but let's cut health care.
• "Life will be good in 50 years time."
• Recursive realities in imagined worlds.
• The logic of market accumulation + drone militarism = grow or die.
• One company holds 700 billion data points on 1.3 billion people.
• Privatization of profit, socialization of risk.
• The Matrix of Electricity Auctions.
• Beyond the legacy parties.
• Musical chairs in the medico-industrial complex.
• Mr. Free Speech (as long as it's not about him).
• Oppose tech's tax breaks or privileges? You're their target, even if they have your pension money.
• NYU Abu Dhabi.
• One filter to rule them all.
• Wall Street's splitting of the Democratic Party.

Bint Battuta:

• Louis Menand on To the Finland Station
• Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe
• The Culpability of Exile: Arabs in Nazi Germany
• Reading Mao’s Little Red Book in Divided Germany
• Iranian converts to Christianity in Germany - & Turkey
• Our Kitchen in 1940s Baghdad
• "If you never get the chance to leave Palestine, other Arabs only exist on TV or in virtual space"
• Housing Shortages in Bombay in the 1860s
• Paupa Braminy, overlooked 18th-century historian
• Indians born on 15 August 1947 interviewed in 1967
• How "God" was included in the Indian oath of office
• Gramophones in India & the Seethaphone Company
• The Kerala boatyard building dhows for Qatar
• The politics of mourning Queen Victoria in the Gulf
• The Macroeconomics of the Gulf
• The Paradoxes of Kamal Junblat
• Ali Mazrui's 1979 Reith Lectures
• Dutch colonial atrocities

Reclaim UC:

• Misogynist extremism
• On Elliot Rodger(s)
• The unbearable invisibility of white masculinity
• "the migration of rage massacres from the workplace (in the 80s) to the school (during the 1990s)…followed the generalization of neoliberal principles into the US education system"
• Notes on understanding the UCSB killings
• "the mounting tension, aggression, and sexual violence simmering throughout the campus and Isla Vista…"
• No lesson plan: Notes on a shooting
• "if you’re Asian, a single look at his picture is all you need to realize that Rodger was not white."
• "Gay or Asian?" Race, masculinity, and the UCSB shooting
• Taking Elliot Rodger seriously
• "Rodger’s extensive written and spoken warnings were not enough. They, somehow, were not read as 'extreme.'"
• "No way to prevent this," says only nation where this regularly happens
• A forgotten and critical feminist history at UCSB
• NYU crisis in Abu Dhabi stretches to Wall Street
• "[F]ive decades of social science research shows that education reproduces inequality"
• Borrowing against the future: The hidden costs of financing US higher education
• "This history of crop dusting also intersected with that of the United States’ burgeoning military industrial complex"
• Adiós, Subcomandante

Nathan Deuel:

• "McConlogue once asked Grand what the worst part of being homeless was. The answer? 'It's lonely.'"
• "Before he was found face down in a puddle and dead late Weds..friends say they urged Jim Syster to quit drinking."
• "He seemed the loneliest person in the world."
• "Not a single person among the scores interviewed said they had voted for anyone other than Mr. Assad"
• “You [should] come visit again in a month or a year. It doesn't matter. We’re old. It all feels the same.”
• A wedding report written by George Saunders
• "Google's autonomous cars, meanwhile, have never even seen snow."
• "Landlords..wait until the buildings collapse, or the tenants, along with their families, migrate or die.”
• "There is no way for a child to wrap their head around the fact that they are a cog in this machine."
• "Being drunk can be quite fun—until you wet the bed or start murdering people."

Jacob Remes:

• ‘A Government Of Thugs’: How Canada Treats Environmental Journalists
• Three of five local labour council presidents in Nova Scotia are under 35.
• The long history of misogynist terrorism
• The Supreme Court isn't polarized; it's wrong.

Kitabet:

• Soma: Lifting the Lid on the “New Turkey”
• Radio on the Reservation
• The Dream-Time of the World Cup
• “It is difficult to describe the graffiti and street art scene in the Saudi kingdom, a country with large urban spaces far away and detached from one another.”
• Forensic Architecture
• One Hurricane is Enough To Ruin Your Year
• The Case for Repair: Part One, Part Two
• “Garrett, a geographer at the University of Oxford, went on trial earlier this month for alleged crimes surrounding his research into urban exploration.”
• Your Princess Is in Another Castle: Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds
• The Great American Chain Gang
• Notallmen/Yesallwomen, Secondary Trauma, and Relearning Everything For the Sake of Not Killing Each Other
• Translating ‘Frozen’ Into Arabic
• "As the former head gardener of Gezi Park for 20 years, Cemal Özay, 68, knows every inch by heart and remembers every tree he planted."
• One Year Since Gezi: A Timeline