Chasing Dragons

Weekend Reading Roundup v. 131

This weekend in a reading roundup inspired by the scattered thoughts produced by too much travel in too little time:

• 'David Cameron: We Have a Few Questions for You' at guardian.co.uk  (British PM demonstrates just how big a merkin he is)

• 'Assassinating the Rule of Law' by Larry C. Goodman at inthesetimes.com

• 'Reading Peter Adey's Aerial LIfe' by Martin Coward at martincoward.net

• 'Comics and Graphic Storytelling: A Sample Syllabus' by Henry Jenkins at henryjenkins.org

• 'Pepper Spray: Even With Citizens in the Act, Issue Still a Pattern of Abuse by Police' by Michael Shaw at bagnewsnotes.com

A big thank you to all of those involved in hosting the 4th Annual Popular Culture and World Politics conference at the University of Lapland.It was a fantastic conference, the hospitality was biblical in proportions, and you brought a dynamic group of scholars together in a fabulous location! There will be more to say in the following days. But for now thanks again!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 130

 This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'The World's Best Known Portrait' by Patrick Cramsie at designobserver.com
• 'Butt Out! Pakistan Telecom Watchdog Drafts Rude text Message Ban' by Saeed Shah at guardian.co.uk
• 'Against All Odds: Muslim Fashion Designers on the Politics of Clothing' at muslimahmediawatch
• 'Chasing the Dragon in Tehran' by Roland Elliot Brown at foreignpolicy.com 

For a bit of perspective, please see the following link about the state that leads the world in illicit and licit drug use.

I hope to be blogging more regularly within the next fortnight once my whistle-stop world tour comes to an end. In the meantime, have a good weekend and enjoy your weekend dose of the sublime...

Weekend Reading Roundup v. 129

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage' by  Willy Staley at theawl.com

• 'The Elusive Enemy: Looking Back at the War on Terror's Visual Culture' by David Campbell at david-campbell.org

• 'The War on Drugs and the Shameful Silence of Our Politicians' an editorial at guardian.co.uk

• '"The Conquest" and France's Political Film Renaissance' by Heather Horn at theatlantic.com

• 'Has American Popular Culture Become Too Dumb for Beavis and Butt-Head' by Rex W. Huppke at chicagotribune.com

• 'Frank Miller, Losing His Mind, Occupy Wall Street, and My Thoughts' by Brett at graphicpolicy.com

Have a good weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 128

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'On the Invisibility of Class Warfare: Or, What if They Gave a Class War and One Side Refused to Show Up?' by John Louis Lucaites at nocaptionneeded.com

• 'Weaponized UAV Drones in the Hands of Local Police' by Bruce Schneier at schneier.com

• 'Are radical journals selling out?' by Alistair Bonnett at timeshighereducation.co.uk

• 'The Life of the "Theory" Journal' by Stuart Elden at societyandspace.com

• 'What has Europe Ever Done for Us? Well...' by Tony Burke at leftfootforward.org

• 'South Sudan: First Things First--In Pictures' at guardian.co.uk

• 'We are Paid Too Much, Bankers Confess in St. Paul's Survey' by Matt Thomas and Brian Brady at independent.co.uk

What a week. Hang in there everyone...

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