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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 208

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'The Dirty Little Secret About Mass Surveillance: It Doesn't Keep Us Safe' at washingtonsblog.com

• 'How Typeface Influences the Way We Read and Think' by Chris Gayomali at theweek.com

• 'Is a Secret a Lie?' by Jeremy Crampton at opengeography

• 'The Politics of Profile and the Private Military and Security Contractor' by Paul Higate at bristol.ac.uk

• 'US Seeks to Defend American Officials from UAV Targeted Killings' by Aram Roston at defensenews.com

• 'Infrastructure: The Importance of Failure' by Martin Coward at martincoward.net

Happy Father's Day!

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This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'How Meals Win Wars' by D.B. Grady at theatlantic.com

• 'Impact Factors Declared Unfit for Duty' by Stephen Curry at occamstypewriter.org

• 'Finding Peace in Post-Disaster Haiti' by Jonathan M. Katz salon.com

• 'Seven Types of Forgetting' by Paul Connerton at memorystudies

• 'Hacking the Drone War's Secret History' by David Axe at dangerroom

Have a good weekend!

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This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens' Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies' by danah boyd and Alice E. Marwick at ssrn.com

• 'Democratising the Learning Process: The Use of Twitter in the Teaching of Politics and International Relations' by Alasdair Blair at politicsjournal.com

• '10 Easy Ways to Make Sure You Have No Publication Record When You Finish Your PhD and Forever After' by Nick Hopwood at nickhop.com

• '56 Indicators of Impact' by Keith Brown at csid.edu (and how many of these are recognised under the REF?)

• 'War and Representation: Showing the Limits of Comprehension' by Robert Hariman at nocaptionneeded.com

Have a good bank holiday weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 205

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'A Cultural History of Syphilis' by Sarah Dunant at guardian.co.uk

• 'The Cartography of Bullshit' by Siddhartha Mitter at africaisacountry

• 'The Wall at One Hundred' by Rowan Jacobsen at guernicamag.com

• 'Drone Strikes: A Candid, Chilling Conversation with Top U.S. Drone Pilot' by David Wood at huffingtonpost.com

• 'The Unmanned Way of Warfare' by Jessica L. Tozer at armedwithscience 

Have a good weekend.

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This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'British Memory of Colonial Brutality in Kenya and Elsewhere' by Laura Routley at CSI-Newcastle

• 'It's Time to Stand Up For Collective Forms of Higher Education and Contest the Enclosure and Commodification of the University' by Richard Hall at lseimpactblog

• 'Whose Afraid of a Little Literary Theory' by Evan Gottlieb at huffingtonpost.com (via @tmccormick)

• 'How Beyond a Boundary Broke Down the Barriers of Race, Class, and Empire' by Selma James at guardian.co.uk

• 'The Neoliberal Assault on Academia' by Tarak Barkawi at aljazeera.com

Stay safe. And Happy Mother's Day Mum and Grandma!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 203

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'The Revolt of the Petty Bourgeoisie' by Richard Seymour at leninstomb

• 'The Inkblot and Popular Culture' by John Foster at designobserver.com

• 'Nyan Cat Creator Comments on Warner Bros. Lawsuit' at gamepolitics.com

• 'The Iron Lady: Costume as Distinction, Gender, and Protection' by Bonnie Radcliffe at clothesonfilm.com

• 'On Photos and Politics in Pakistan' by Alex Selwyn-Holmes at iconicphotos

Enjoy the bank holiday weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 202

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'This is Punk?' by Nitsuh Abebe at nymag.com

• 'George W. Bush's Presidency in 24 Charts' at wonkblog

• 'After Neoliberalism: Analysing the Present' by Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey, and Michael Rustin at lwbooks.co.uk

• 'The Imaginations of Playgrounds' by John Foster at designobserver.com

• 'Anything that Moves' by Nick Turse at guernicamag.com

Peace.

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 201

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Anything But Benevolent: The Remodelling of the Welfare State' by Ross McKibben at lrb.co.uk

• 'When the Boston Bombing Happens in Iraq' by Robert Hariman at nocaptionneeded.com

• 'The Tragedies of Other Places' by Derek Gregory at geographicalimaginations.com

• '20th Century Death' at informationisbeautiful.com

• 'RAF Graduates First Class of New Groundbased Pilots' by Lewis Page at theregister.co.uk

Stay safe.

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This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Obama's Drone War Kills Others, Not Just Al Qaida Leaders' by Jonathan S. Landay at mcclatchydc.com

• 'Margaret Thatcher: An Obituary From Below' by Richard Seymour at jacobinmag.com

• 'Army's Disaster Prep Now Includes Tips From the Zombie Apocalypse' by Spencer Ackerman at dangerroom

• 'Chinese Soft Power 2.0: The Politics of Fashion' by Michael Barr at the CSINewcastleblog

• 'The REF's Narrow Definition of Impact Ignores the Historical Role of Teaching in Relation to the Social Impact of the University' by Peter Wade at lseimpactblog

Enjoy your weekend.

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This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Unemployment Benefits and Migration: Evidence from the EU' by Corrado Giulietti, Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec, and Klaus F. Zimmerman at the Institute for the Study of Labour

• 'Migrants, Benefits, and Public Services: What Does the New Research Evidence Tell Us?' by Jonathan Portes at notthetreasuryview

• 'War's Bricolage' by Robert Hariman at nocaptionneeded.com

• 'San Diego, Hub of the US Drone Industry' by Jamie Reno at thedailybeast.com

Peace.

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