Chasing Dragons

Weekend Reading Roundup v. 63

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Taliban Says US Drone Attacks 'Temporaily' Hindering Insurgency' by Mark Tran at guardian.co.uk

• 'Divided Cities' by Martin Coward at martincoward.net

• 'James Scott on Agricultre as Politics, the Dangers of Standardization, and Not Being Governed' at theorytalks.org

I know this is coming in at the wire, but have a good weekend, wherever you are!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 62

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'The Unwanted' a graphic novel by Joe Sacco at guardian.co.uk

• '40 Things You Need to Know About the Next 40 Years' at smithsonian.mag.com (I, for one, welcome the rule of our new jellyfish overlords...)-->thanks to openculture.com for the link!

• 'The Consultant was a Spy' by Shane Harris at washingtonian.com -->thanks to boingboing.net for the link!

• 'Humanitarian Design vs. Design Imperialism: Debate Summary' by the Editors at designobserver.com (a really good digest of the online debate about humanitarian design and whether it is a form of imperialism)

• And just in case you've ever wondered what the Earth might look like if it stopped rotating, you can find answers at popsci.com

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 61

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Why We Talk to Terrorists' by Scott Altran and Robert Axelrod (on the latest US Supreme Court decision that will stunt terrorism research and jeopardize conflict resolution through track two diplomacy) at edge.org

• 'What Work is Really Worth' by Pierre Rimbert at mondediplo.com

• 'What was Cricket Australia Thinking?' by Mukul Kesavan at cricinfo.com

• 'Why Paywalls Will Fail: An Interview with Clay Shirky' by Decca Aitkenhead at guardian.co.uk

Have a good weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 60

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Realer than Real: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari' by Brian Massumi, available here.

• 'The Vienna Declaration' a demand for a full global policy reorientation with regards to illicit drugs, available to be read and signed here.

• 'India's Epic Head Count' by Meena Kadri at designobserver.com

• 'He-Man and the Masters of Transmedia' by Henry Jenkins at henryjenkins.org

• 'Foucault and Philosophy' by Clare O'Farrell at refractedinput

Happy Independence Day to all the American readers of this blog and a belated Happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadians!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 59

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'The Anosognosic's Dilemma: Something's Wrong but You'll Never Know What it is' by Errol Morris at nytimes.com

• 'Mossad Doesn't Accept Losers' by Yaakov Katz at jpost.com

• 'What to Expect at G20: Lots and Lots of Cops' by Sandro Contenta at truth-out.org

• 'Seeds of Suicide' by Marie-Monique Robin at guernicamag.com

• 'Permanent Impermanence' by Syed Ali at contexts.org

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 58

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'U.S. "Secret War" Expands Globally as Special Operations Forces Take Larger Role' by Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe at washingtonpost.com

• 'K-Pop a Direct Declaration of War' at the sonicwarfare blog

• '"So" Pushes to the Head of the Line' by Anand Giridharadas at anand.ly

• 'The G20 and the Architecture of Paranoia' by Christopher Hume at thestar.com

• 'Yes the World Cup is About Politics' by Michael P. Jeffries at guardian.co.uk

Happy Father's Day and have a great weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 57

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Barcelona Rebels Against Tourist Invasion' by Giles Tremlett at guardian.co.uk

• 'The Art of War: Deleuze, Guattari, Debord, and the Israeli Defence Force' by Eyal Weizman at mutemagazine

• 'Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, and Arbitrary Killings: Special Report on Targeted Killings' by Philip Alston at the United Nations Human Rights Council

• 'Ten Things that Terrify Right-Wingers' by Joshua Holland at truthout.org

• 'Is NATO to Blame for Russia's Afghan Heroin Problem' by Simon Shuster at time.com

Have a good weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 56

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Of Drone Wars and Buffalo Urine' by Conn Hallinan at fpif.org

• 'The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment' by Peter Beinart at the New York Review of Books

• 'The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment: An Exchange' at the New York Review of Books

• 'Don't Replace Child Detention with Enforced Separation' by Simon Parker at guardian.co.uk

• 'Canada Unveils Arsenal for Anti-G20 Protests' by Pav Jordan at reuters.com

• 'State Sponsored Stupidity, and Why Dissent Still Has to be Chaotic' by Hariman at nocaptionneeded.com

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 55

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Surveillance Suspected as Spacecraft's Main Role' by William J. Broad at nytimes.com

• 'Killer Entertainments' by Jennifer Terry at vectorsjournal.org

• 'Obama's Missing Moral Narrative' by George Lakoff at truthout.org

• 'Bourgeois Property-based Rights and their Exclusions' at Lenin's Tomb

• 'And so Cameron's First Victims Are...' by Johann Hari at johannhari.com

• 'Jamaica Bleeds for Our "War on Drugs"' by Ben Bowling at guardian.co.uk

For those stateside or in the UK, enjoy the long / bank holiday weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 54

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Partners with Apartheid' by Sasha Polakow-Suransky at guernicamag.com

• 'Bangkok: The Future of Urban War' by Martin Coward at martincoward.net

• 'Darth Vader's Guide to Winning Your Political Campaign' at killercampaigning.com

• 'France's Pupils to View Cinema Classics in the Classroom' by Lizzy Davies at guardian.co.uk

• 'Why Middlesex Matters' by Jon Protevi at timeshigher.co.uk (or why it is an unwise decision to close the highly regarded philosophy department at Middlesex University)

• And last but not least, 'The Coalition: Our Programme for Government' (see paragraph 1, p. 35 for the true priority) available here

Enjoy your weekend!

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