Sunday Reading

Karen Gregory:

• A City Is More Than Just a Sum of its Behaviors
• Is Crowdsourcing Bad for Workers?
• Microworking the Crowd
• The Age of Rentier Capitalism
• Slight Return: Cultural Work, Law, Ontology
• To Much Magic, Too Little Social Friction
• Unmournable Bodies
• Do Black LIves Matter: Robin DG Kelley & Fred Moten in Conversation (video)

Kitabet:

• "Before I leave home, I come up with a title for the Armenian Heritage Trip to Turkey: Twenty Armenians on a Bus, or The Thirty Handkerchief Tour"
• Ghost Ships
• The False Friends of Kobanê
• Enemy Aliens: the forgotten history of World War I internment camps
• On Hisham Aidi’s new book Rebel Music
• Mosque & Memory
• “For New Yorkers who value fair policing...the slowdown is an occasion to celebrate”
• Disavowal Politics
• "Nothing is quick, nothing is easy. No solidarity is secure."
• Moral Clarity
• Is Solidarity without Identity Possible?
• Unmournable Bodies
• “a variety of historical and poetic texts largely produced in Turkish and Persian spheres—both Sunni and Shiite—include beautiful depictions of the Prophet Muhammad”
• A Matriarch in Exile
• Unpacking Ethnographic Narrative
• The Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island
• Dogs and Humans and What Earth Can Be: Filaments of Muslim Ecological Thought

Bint Battuta:

Jacob Remes:

• Nine thoughts about the Charlie Hebdo massacre
• A view of Charlie Hebdo from the French Left
• Integration and discrimination in France
• Suburban poverty, pedestrians, and which lives matter
• On Black Canadian Thought
• Who will teach at free community colleges?
• Four of 2014's best maps

Kerim Friedman:

• The False Friends of Kobanê
• Why Most Calorie Counts Are Wrong
• In France, Prisons Filled With Muslims
• Joe Sacco: On Satire
• We’re Asking All the Wrong Questions
• Life Without Police
• Get the Muslim iCondemn App!
• Contingent Faculty and Free Community College
• No, Voltaire Didn’t Say That
• Let’s not sacralize Charlie Hebdo
• Yoga was created 5,000 years ago, right?
• Casta Paintings

Nathan Deuel:

• "Can I buy your son?"
• “It’s totally scary to have people shooting in town,” she said. 
• "We are slowly dying here, no one is coming to help us and we have nothing."  
• "The lettering you see on the West Coast is different from the look on the East Coast" 
• “Foie gras is legal in California and will be on my menu tonight.” 
• "He said he strangled a second cat because he thought it was having a seizure so he put it out of his misery." 
• "When you’re in your forties and you spend your winters in the south, all of a sudden you’re a snowbird. Soon: Death"
• "She asks if I want to throw up with her and is shocked to learn that I don’t know how." 
• "If a nuclear bomb goes off in the U.S., scientists hope to determine the size of the detonation within hours" 
• "Cities use 'Code Blue as the designation for emergency services to reach the homeless during times of extreme cold."
• A couple's pine coffins biz aims to "help families reclaim the power of caring for our own dead." 
• "When they got out of the pool, I'd look at their footprints as they dried in the concrete." 
• Naked L.A. woman stuck in chimney, attempting to see kids she's allegedly not allowed to visit