ACCESS DENIED: News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News Migrants entering the U.S. are increasingly crossing through southern Texas, where many die trying to circumvent a Border Patrol checkpoint in Brooks County. Last year, the toll of recovered...
View Articletrinketization: Stagnation and iPhone 5c #iphone #speed #trinket
With no real movement in the austerity capital that was imposed through fear, the iPhone candy coloured stagnation dream baby is the must have trinket for go-nowhere fast slow capital. Trillions could...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: Land of lost opportunity
My latest: In America, there is little chance at a reversal of fortune for those less fortunate. Poverty is a sentence for the crime of existing. Poverty is a denial of rights sold as a character...
View Articlehawgblawg: Orient-Institut Studies 2 (2013) - Inverted Worlds: Cultural...
Volume 2 of Orient-Institut Studies (put out by the Orient-Institut Beirut and the Orient-Institut Istanbul) recently came out (the journal is published only online). It's the Proceedings of the...
View ArticleIdeas Bazaar: Mountains and Minds
I’m reading Robert Macfarlane’s Mountains of the Mind. A terrific books from which I could quote any number of passages. Here’s one nice passage: “Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: “Turkey to build 207 prisons over...
Turkey to build 207 prisons over 5 years Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin has announced plans for construction of 207 new prisons over the next five years., Prison de Riom. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Social causes has its own network now! … Google’s...
How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics To translate one language into another, find the linear transformation that maps one to the other. Simple, say a...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Character amnesia and the emergence of digraphia
David Moser saw this photograph of a child's essay via Twitter: Since David sent this essay to me about a week ago, I've seen it on many other Chinese sites. While we can't be sure of the age of the...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Yeni Anayasa gündemi: “Yeni Anayasa için umut kalmadı
Anayasa Uzlaşma Komisyonu”ndan Serzeniş Haber Yurdum CHP İzmir Milletvekili Türmen, Anayasa’nın yazımında iki yıl geçtiğini hatırlatan gazeteciye, iki yıl olmadığını söyleyerek, “Altı ay görüş...
View Articletrinketization: New Cross Review of Books – Macon on aura ‘n swagger
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View ArticleSomatosphere: Web Roundup: Faster Than a Speeding Bullet by Emily...
Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker article, “Man and Superman,” on genetics and performance in sport kicks off this month’s web roundup, where we ask the questions: Who is a superman (or superwoman)? How...
View ArticleAnthropology Now: Rouhani’s Visit to the UN
Narges Bajoghli, an anthropology PhD student at NYU, writes in The Guardian about Iranian winds of change: Students, activists, artists, and political prisoners rallied behind Rouhani just before the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Did Stalin really coin "American exceptionalism"?
The phrase "American exceptionalism" has been much in the news ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote an op/ed piece in the New York Times taking issue with President Obama's statement that...
View Articletrinketization: ‘The Advocate’ – screening and discussion [Uni of Westminster...
You are invited to the screening of ‘The Advocate’ and to participate in the discussions on the role of civil liberties movements in the context of development, resistance and repression in India and...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: handshake 302
CZC特工队 is a group organized to engage Shenzhen’s urban villages through art, theater, and social media documentary projects. Our first project is called “Handshake 302″. The concept behind Handshake...
View Articletabsir.net: T. S. Eliot’s Influence Upon Salah Abdel-Sabour, #3
Abdel Sabour By George Nicolas El-Hage, Ph.D. [For Part 1 of this essay, click here. For Part 2, click here.] 7. Sabour’s Departure from Traditional Arabic Poetry Up until now, I tried to demonstrate...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: Ethnographies from the Future: What can ethnographers...
Editor’s Note: Laura Forlano (@laura4lano) is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Design at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology and a Visiting Scholar in the Comparative...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: “France breaking own rules on...
France breaking own rules on Roma camps: ombudsman France’s official defender of citizens’ rights on Friday accused the government of flouting its own rules related to the expulsion of Roma migrants...
View Articleethnosnacker: Help needed with my masterclass
In a couple of weeks I will be running a one week design project with some of the brightest Industrial Design students in the world. In Pune, India. The thread running through the project is applied...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Misreading like a lawyer
Jill Anderson, "Misreading Like a Lawyer: Cognitive Bias in Statutory Interpretation", Harvard Law Review, Vol. 127, 2014, Forthcoming: Statutory interpretation dilemmas arise in all areas of law,...
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