Good Morning, It’s Monday Morning Links

* Paradoxa has put up Mark Bould’s introduction to issue 25, on “Africa SF.” My article on Octavia Butler’s Patternist series is in this one.

* Discovering Cuban SF.

* “Sharing economy” companies like Uber shift risk from corporations to workers, weaken labor protections, and drive down wages. Against Sharing.

* Run the university like an insane person’s idea of a spa.

At Auburn University in Alabama, for example, students can soak in a 45-person paw-print-shaped hot tub or scale a 20-foot wet climbing wall before plunging into the pool. Designs for North Dakota State’s facility, on which construction is scheduled to begin next year, include a zip line that students can ride out over the water, a 36-foot-diameter vortex of swirling water and a recessed fireplace on an island in the middle of the pool that students can swim up to. A small “rain garden” is planned to mist lounging students.

* Meanwhile: The ruins of the latest horrible trend in academic misspending.

* Colleges’ Pursuit of Prestige and Revenue Is Hurting Low-Income Students. Why Neoliberal Labor Practices Harm Working Students. Professors on food stamps: The shocking true story of academia in 2014. edutech woowoo, now and forever.

* Marc Bousquet remembers when #altac was a trap.

* Trend Piece.

First, statistic plucked from academic journal where the writer didn’t pay to pass the paywall. Also, a biased survey from a company with countless vested interests. It’s official: the above trend is slightly more common than you thought.

* How to Tell if You’re in a MFA Workshop Story. How to Tell If You Are In an Indie Coming-of-Age Movie.

* 9 college freshmen dead in alcohol-related incidents in first weeks of new school year.

* Better Teachers Receive Worse Student Evaluations.

* King Richard III was probably hacked and stabbed to death in battle, according to a new study.

* What the 17th Century Can Teach Us About Vaginas.

* The second Harmoncountry tour will come through Chicago. November 1.

* When superheroes fight cancer.

* Where are animals in the history of sexuality?

* Neoliberal Mothering and Vaccine Refusal.

* If Dataclysm has a central idea embedded in it, it’s that it’s okay for the tech industry to scrape your data off every last surface you touch.

* From what you have heard, was the shooting of an African-American teen by law enforcement in Ferguson, Missouri justified? 55% say yes.

* Cat performance review.

* And everyone is mad at Adam for making what seems to me to be the most obviously true observation about protest marches: they don’t work.

Going to be sweet watching @adamkotsko eat crow tomorrow when the climate march brings about full communism.

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) September 21, 2014

Heroic age of protest marches was an extremely specific period of decolonization and anticommunism AND were accompanied by riots + violence.

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) September 21, 2014

It's at least worth asking why this is supposed to work in our movement, even before one notes it plainly doesn't.

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) September 21, 2014

I would say the huge size of the climate march is an opportunity to ask whether protest marches are the way forward.

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) September 21, 2014

Did it have to be twice the size it was? Ten times the size? What’s the number where elites suddenly have to listen and reverse course?

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) September 21, 2014

One of the hardest challenges climate change poses to liberal orthodoxy is its demonstration that liberalism has no answer to this crisis.

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) September 21, 2014

CUT TO: The aliens simulating this period in our history. ALIEN 1: They can’t be this stupid. ALIEN 2: It must be broken. Try reseting it.

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) September 21, 2014