Erkan in the Army now...: The standing man. Yet another form of civic action...
17 June 2013. This young man is standing in front of Atatürk Cultural Center in Taksim Square since 20:30. It is now 23:40… Related posts: the 3rd day begins in Turkish style Occupy Act at the Gezi...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: The 22nd Day in #OccupyTurkey. Gov’t planning to...
update: Standing Men and Women in Taksim Square are also being detained at the moment…. Governement working on draft to restrict social media in Turkey The Turkish government launched yesterday a...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: A video: Undercovers trying to make sense of...
Standing people in Kanyon Mall, Levent, İstanbul, 18 June 2013 13:00 Related posts: Video: 11 June 2013 evening. Pepper gas thrown at protesters in Taksim Square. #OccupyTurkey Lawyers attacked in...
View Articletabsir.net: British Dominion in India
Robert Clive and Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey, 1757, by Francis Hayman In 1894, as Queen Victoria smiled upon the empire upon which the sun never was allowed to set, the British literary...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: Greece deprived of its public...
Greece deprived of its public broadcasting service: More than a bad soap opera Flawed it may have been, but ERT, Greece’s public broadcaster, was one of the few things holding the country together...
View ArticleEthnography.com: More on Scientific Reductionism–this time from a...
David Brooks, the center-right columnist at the New York Times today published a column about the limitations on neuron research. He’s not against neural research, just the hubris that tends to...
View ArticleLanguage Log: A new mixed language in the news
Lately we've seen a number of hair-tearing Language Log posts (including a couple of mine) about bad linguistic pseudo-hemi-demi-quasi-science getting into major science journals and the popular...
View ArticleGlossographia: Light Warlpiri: not a new mixed language
Today the science news outlets are abuzz with the claim that a newly identified mixed language has been identified in Australia, Light Warlpiri, based on a press release from the Linguistic Society of...
View ArticleDisparate: Confessions of an App Buyer
When it comes to apps, I’m clearly a tire kicker. After deleting a few from the US App Store (now that I live in Canada), I have 943 .ipa files in my “Mobile Applications” folder. Most of them were...
View Articlehawgblawg: Cheikha Rimitti, Charrak Gataa‘
I previously posted on this song (usually translated as "Tear, Cut" or "Tear, Lacerate,") recorded in 1954, arguing that the claim that the song was an unambiguous call on young Algerian women to...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Resistance evolves along civic lines, PM Erdoğan...
Turkey’s ’standing people’ protest spreads amid Erdoğan’s crackdown Protesters turn to passive resistance after four people die in Erdoğan’s brutal response to Taksim Square demonstration Lunchtime in...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Turkey confident about Istanbul 2020 Olympics...
English: The bidding cities for the 2020 Olympic Games (Baku, Doha, Istanbul, Madrid, Rome and Tokyo) are represented by red dots, and their respective countries (Azerbaijan, Qatar, Turkey, Spain,...
View ArticleLoomnie: Links I Find Interesting
1. George Bush, Nicholas Kristof and the Hunger Games 2. On the rich symbolism and ribald comic vitality of Pedro Almodovar’s I’m So Excited 3. Transnational Gender Vertigo (deserves a post all to...
View Articletabsir.net: Pork Barrel Islamophobia
The biblical prophet Isaiah talked about turning swords into plowshares. Leave it to a bunch of Idahoites to turn bullets into bullshit. In the online world of chickenhawkers of nonsense, you are now...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Turkish ‘walking woman’ keeps on walking to protest...
Turkish ‘walking woman’ keeps on walking Aylin Kotil’s walk to protest the election threshold reached its fourth day on July 11, with the Republican People’s Party deputy arriving in the northwestern...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Four-quark matter and linguistic insights
Back in June, Sally Thomason noted that Carmel O'Shannessy's paper in the June issue of Language, "The role of multiple sources in the formation of an innovative auxiliary category in Light Warlpiri,...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: July 2013: Ethnography in Education
Welcome to this month’s theme on ethnography in education research! From the promise of radio learning nearly a century ago, to the recent hype around One Laptop Per Child, to the current excitement...
View ArticleACCESS DENIED: News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey deported a comatose 69-year-old undocumented immigrant to Poland without securing his consent or informing the Polish diplomats...
View Articletrinketization: Diological highlights from Sweet Smell of Success
the good folk at IMDB typed up the best bits (erm Spoiler Alert, sort of – the plot is jumbled here, but you wanna see the movie first anyways): J.J. Hunsecker: Mr. Falco, let it be said at once, is...
View Articletrinketization: Miller and 'The Reason of Metaphor'
Reblogged from Into Ruins: 10.07.13 Which voice today, Reader, my apologies, which voice am I on? The Reason of Metaphor: A study in Politics by Donald F Miller. What's here? "To him, the play of...
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