Sunday Reading

Karen Gregory:

• Justice for "Data Janitors" 
• The Cathedral of Computation 
• "The Smart City" 
• "With Big Data Invading Campus..."
• Can Worker Cooperatives Alleviate Income Inequality?
• The Right to Be Let Alone
• More Silicon Valley Shuttle Drivers Look to Unionize
• Lost Dreams of Future America

Bint Battuta:

• Exporting Legality: The Rise and Fall of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in the Ottoman Empire and China
• Virtual Orientalism: Religion and Popular Culture in the U.S.
• Joseph Massad on the intellectual life of Edward Said
• Laleh Khalili on port cities and sha'bi cosmopolitanisms
• Offshoring the Army: Migrant Workers and the U.S. Military
• Armenian diaspora tourism in Turkey
• The politics of teaching Ottoman Turkish
• The history of the astrakhan hat
• Indian silver coins in Viking-age northern Europe & Britain
• South India's "military hotels"
• Calcutta's Hungryalist poets, who Allen Ginsberg spent time with
• The Recipe as Colonial Archive: Moroccan Qamama Chicken from a Frenchwoman in Fes
• Pomp before Disgrace: A Dutchman Commissions Two Golconda Miniatures on Eve of Mughal Conquest
• Tibetan Libraries in Present-Day China
• The history of sawt al-khaleej
• Foucault in Iran

ReclaimUC:

• Securitization, risk management, and the new university
• For black students at UC Berkeley, protests are about Ferguson—and their own lives
• University finances 101 (video)
• Free community college is nothing to celebrate
• A history of the MLA job list
• Outlook for higher education is negative
• Majority of US public school students are in poverty
• The secretary effect
• Lessons from Philadelphia's mandatory African American history classes
• 1 in 3 college men in survey say they would rape a woman if they could get away with it
• Construction and the crisis of public higher education
• Those Mexican students didn't just "disappear"

Kitabet:

• “remembering what it felt like, when the earthquake was real and we were in it”
• “The situation before the earthquake was untenable, and it still is untenable”
• Still Fissured
• The Fight for Ramlet Bulaq
• A digital archive of World War I in Africa
• “CUNY’s top five colleges have enrolled fewer and fewer black and Latino freshmen over the last decade”
• Into the Underworld
• On Lubunca, queer argot in Turkey
• “St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing”
• A Railway Pilgrimage in Pakistan
• A Turkish Hero of Our Time
• John and Bonnie Raines, of The Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI (AKA the Media FBI burglars)
• “mainstream film and TV in the U.S. is always a bad diet for black audiences, always a site of malnutrition”
• On timing the anthropocene, with the atom bomb or the archaeosphere

Jacob Remes:

• "The Board of Trustees’ refusal to admit any mistakes means that the University of Illinois will be at a severe disadvantage in recruiting faculty."
• For Whom the Muezzin Calls
• The internal politics of the New York police union [radio 4:43]
• The safety gap
• The frighteningly erudite Arthur Goldhammer
• The Spanish Civil War on Google Streetview

Kerim Friedman:

• How To Interview a Woman Writer
• Media Coverage of Charlie Hebdo and the Baga Massacre
• Equal in Paris?
• Charlie Hebdo’s Anti-Imperialist Roots
• France Is an Unequal Opportunity Offender
• Mamdani: 'Charlie Hebdo cartoons are bigoted'
• Here's How Arab Papers Reacted to the 'Charlie Hebdo' Massacre
• What we now need is a machine for fighting anxiety
• Charlie Hebdo: Not racist? If you say so...
• What "all lives matter" misses
• Do Tech Companies Really Support Free Speech?
• The state of satire in the Muslim world
• 'Not Afraid'
• Charlie Hebdo and the Limits of the Republic
• Dubout and Hebdo

Nathan Deuel:

• "A second alligator has been found in Los Angeles Thursday, abandoned in the backyard of a North Hills home." 
• "Using his skills with 3D printing, Balzer create d a computer model of his wife's skull and the tumor." 
• "I don't think they know where they are going..they're just driving, and it's getting increasingly dangerous for them 
• "[They] don’t have the scholarly background or on-the-ground experience to justify being on your network or any other."
• "At first he refused..but changed his mind when he was told his children would be removed if he did not comply."
• "I can still hear his voice. He said, 'I’ll kill that dog.' He was going to hit Tiger with a metal rake." 
• "A quick (and uncomfortable) search for 9/11 under "Historical Memorabilia" on eBay now brings up almost nothing."
• "Prisoners ganged up on me and thought they could pressure me to show them my breasts—in exchange for crystal meth."
• "Religion is all we have left. This is sacred to us. And yes, we have a hard time laughing about it."
• "There's no handbook on how to survive your young wife’s psychiatric crisis."