Posts Tagged ‘precarious life’
Sunday Night Links!
* But trains loaded with millions of gallons of crude oil thread the thickly populated areas of some of the nation’s biggest cities. Including Milwaukee.
* Love Song for a Neoliberal University: StarbucksU.
* Corinthian Colleges Inc. shut down its remaining 28 for-profit career schools, ending classes for about 16,000 students, in the biggest collapse in U.S. higher education.
* I’m not anti-technology, or anti-innovation. And I think traditional colleges are deeply flawed. But I am very, very much against expanding the money-laundering side of our financial aid system. And that is the coal mine into which the ASU-EdX canary is being lowered.
* Surge Pricing for Your Entire Life.
* On the deep grammar of the White House Correspondents Association Dinner.
* Hell didn’t exist, so we built it: the Alcatraz of the Rockies.
* What It’s Like to Be a Girl in America’s Juvenile Justice System.
* This is the toxic tribalism that repeats itself over and over throughout the West. Western victims are mourned and humanized, while victims of Western violence are invisible and thus dehumanized. Aside from being repugnant in its own right, this formula, by design, is deeply deceptive as propaganda: It creates the impression among Western populations that we are the victims but not the perpetrators of heinous violence, that terrorism is something done to us but that we never commit ourselves, that “primitive, radical and inhumanely violent” describes the enemy tribe but not our own.
* When George Packer gets bored, I get worried. It means he’s in the mood for war.
* Tom DeLay: People keep forgetting that God ‘wrote the Constitution.’
* Can We Preserve the Ferguson QuikTrip? Ferguson’s Fortune 500 Company.
* Entire Treasury Department Competing For Same Goldman Sachs Job Opening.
* 23 maps and charts on language.
* Before And After: Earthquake Destroys Kathmandu’s Centuries-Old Landmarks.
* How Well Does ‘Daredevil’ Handle Disability Issues?
* Tetris: The Unauthorized Biography.
* An Abandoned Island in The Middle of NYC.
* Native Hawaiians are fighting off an invasion of astronomers. The Heart of the Hawaiian Peoples’ Arguments Against the Telescope on Mauna Kea.
* And some local interest from the Decolonial Atlas: The Great Lakes in Ojibwe.
No, YOU’RE Procrastinating: Wednesday Afternoon Links!
* We just landed a spacecraft on a comet for the first time. Here’s why it matters.
* Capitalism and the space program.
This is no accident. The same contradictions that have divided human aspiration from human achievement, producing growing hunger and want in a world with the technological means to solve both, paralyze the reach of humanity into the solar system. The task to reclaim space as humanity’s birthright is inseparable from that necessary to oppose war and conquer want and deprivation. In other words, it is the fight for socialism.
* Theory and Event‘s special supplement on Ferguson and “Disposable Lives.”
* Interview with Sherryl Vint on science fiction and biopolitics.
* College Athletes of the World, Unite. Ladies and gentlemen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
* This is a great TNI interview on California, “the carceral state.”
If we believe that the prison system is broken, then we must also believe in its ability to be fixed. Here we can see how the PIC keeps functioning through the rehearsal of the “broken system” narrative. As Angela Davis and many others have argued, it is precisely through reform that the prison-industrial complex expands. We can see the materiality of this expansion through the mandatory increase in police in schools through Proposition 47.
* Wisconsin woman said this week that she may have to file for bankruptcy because she was taken to an out-of-network hospital after having a heart attack, but now she owes more than $50,000 more than she would have if she had been taken to a hospital less than half a mile away.
* I was fired for sending a letter to the League for Innovation in the Community College, criticizing the Moraine Valley Community College administration for treating adjunct faculty as a “disposable resource” and the “chilling effect” on adjuncts who lack job security.
* Can White Teachers Be Taught How to Teach Our Children?
* America’s workers steal more than its shoplifters.
* Now we see the violence inherent in the system: Man Points Rifle At Teen Daughter After Game Of Battleship Goes Bad.
* And again. To limit divorce settlement, conservative billionaire argues that he got rich through luck.
* And again. Maryland School Board Asked To Recognize Muslim Holy Day, Strikes References To All Religious Holidays Instead.
* Pretty good fan pitch for what The Force Awakens should be about.
* The Handmaid’s Tale was a documentary: Domino’s founder turning FL town into unconstitutional contraception-free ‘Catholic enclave.’
* And Christoph Waltz has been stealing my bit.
Gerry Canavan 