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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 189

This weekend in the reading roundup:

'How Obama Decides Your Fate If He Thinks You're a Terrorist' by Daniel Byman and Benjamin Wittes at theatlantic.com

'What *Should* We Be Worried About in 2013' at edge.org

'Politics Editorial: The Changing Landscape of Academic Publishing' by Martin Coward and Kyle Grayson from Politics

'A Helpful Reminder: Video Game Consumption is Not Correlated to Gun Violence' by Maggie Koerth-Baker at boingboing.net

Enjoyt the weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 188

Happy new year to all! This weekend in the reading roundup:

'Learning to Love Torture, Zero Dark Thirty-Style' by Karen J. Greenberg at guernicamag.com

'What Feedback do Students Want' by Alasdair Blair et al at politicsjournal.org

'Bradley Garrett's Five New Rules for the Neoliberal Academy' by Stuart Elden at progressivegeographies.com

'Everything We Know About Drone Strikes So Far' by Cora Currier at ukprogressive.co.uk

Have a good weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 187

Good day eh, from Canada. This weekend in the reading roundup:

'"My Britain is F**k All" Zombie Multiculturalism and the Race Politics of Citizenship" by Paul Gilroy at Identities: Global Studies in Power

'100% Arts Funding Cut? This Newcastle Budget is an Act of Vandalism' by Lee Hall at guardian.co.uk

'Napster, Audacity, and the Academy' by Clay Shirky at shirky.com

'Theory Talks #52: Iver Neumann' by Peer Schouten at theory-talks.org

'Rules for Targeted Killing' at nytimes.com

'Drones Change "Top Gun" Culture of the Air Force' by Jim Michaels at usatoday.com

Photo credit: Argusgate (inspired by my visit to 'Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting' at the AGO)

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 185

This weekend in the reading roundup:

'World Revolution Z' by Gaston Gordillo at spaceandpolitics

'The Gestural Economy of Hands and Faces' by John Lucaites at nocaptionneeded.com

'The Case for and Against Drones' by Jeremy Crampton at opengeography

'The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit' by Andrew Herscher at designobserver.com

Have a good weekend.

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 184

This weekend in the reading roundup:

'Art Under Austerity' by Lorna Scott Fox at guernicamag.com

'Neo-neo Colonialism' at globalsociology.com

'Drone Makers Push Congress to Move Up Domestic Deployment Date' by Joe Wolverton at thenewamerican.com (charts the emergence of an influential drone caucus in the US government)

'Mexico has a New President. Is the Drug War Over' by Nathaniel Parrish Flannery at forbes.com

Photo credit: Piazza del Popolo

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 183

This weekend in the reading roundup:

'Mengele's Skull' by Thomas Kennan and Eyal Weizman at cabinetmagazine.org

'How Israeli Drone Pilots Made Their Life-and-Death Choices Over Gaza' by Noah Shachtman at dangerroom

'The Troubling Dean to Professor Ratio' by John Hechinger at businessweek.com

'Manufacturing Taste: The (Un)Natural History of Kraft Dinner' by Sasha Chapman at thewalrus.ca

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 179

This weekend in the reading roundup:

'The Permanent War' at washingtonpost.com (a three part series on the who, why, where, what, and how of drone warfare)

'Transguy: Packing Privilege' by Ryan Legg at owldolatrous.com (Peggy McIntosh's backpack of privilege gets a thoughtful update)

'The Hidden Map of Science: Pre-Publication History of Articles Tell Us that Rejection Leads to Higher Citation Rates' by Vincent Calcagno at lseimpactblog

'Do the Roots of Violent Radicalisation Lie Where the UK Government Suspects They Do?' by Jack Holland at e-ir.info

'The Coalition is Turning UK Universities into Border Checkpoints' by Kyle Grayson at huffingtonpost.com

I hope that you have a good weekend.

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An Upcoming Discussion of Targeted Killing and the War on Terror

WHAT NEXT IN THE WAR ON TERROR?

Wednesday 24 October, 2012

Public Meeting 
5.30 - 7:30pm, at Lecture Theatre 2
Herschel Building
Newcastle University

ALL WELCOME

Organised by Newcastle Stop the War and Newcastle 
University's Power/Space/Politics research cluster

'Six Theses on Targeted Killing'
Dr Kyle Grayson - Newcastle University 

PLUS

Lindsey German - National Convenor for Stop the War Coalition

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 177

This weekend in the reading roundup:

'Conflict History: All Human Conflicts on a Single Map' at infosthetics.com

'Technology, Norms, and Social Change' at globalsociology.com

'The Art of Punk and the Punk Aesthetic' by Rick Poynor at designobserver.com

'Drone Attacks Will Lead to Inevitable Blowback in Pakistan' by Pam Bailey at globalresearch.ca

Have a good weekend.

Photo credit: Jonathan Cohen

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 175

This weekend in the reading roundup:

'Living Under Drones' by the Stanford Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at livingunderdrones.org

'In Interview, Yemeni President Acknowledges Approving U.S. Drone Strikes' by Greg Miller at washingtonpost.com

'Not Even the White House Knows Drone Body Count' by Noah Shachtman at dangerroom

'Free Market Football' by Robert Hariman at nocaptionneeded.com

Enjoy the weekend.

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