Chasing Dragons

Weekend Reading Roundup v. 186

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Political Graffiti: A Brief History in Images' by Erin Barnett at fansinaflashbulb

• 'When the Drug Policies Work' by Richard Seymour at leninology.com

• 'Model Warfare' by Geoff Manaugh at bldgblog

• 'Politics, the Economy, and Film: An Interview with Ken Loach' by Federico Grandesso at neurope.eu

• 'More Issues in Open Access (#OA)' by Martin Coward at martincoward.net

Hope you have a great weekend.

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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

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This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'A Snitch's Dilemma' by Ted Conover at nytimes.com (corruption, surveillance, and murder in the war on drugs at a micro-level)

• 'Music: The Internet's Original Sin' by Cory Doctorow at locusmag.com

• 'Apes with Apps' by Ken Schweller at spectrumieee.org

• 'Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They are From Nigeria?' by Cormac Herley at research.microsoft.com

• 'Drone Hijacking? That's Just the Start of GPS Troubles' by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai at dangerroom

Have a good weekend!

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This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Oh London, You Drama Queen' by China Mieville at nytimes.com

• 'It Wos the Sun Wot Couldn't Do Maths: Prioritising Benefit Fraud When Tax Fraud is 10X Worse' at leftfootforward.org (Murdoch and Co. make another contribution to the Tory class war)

• 'Academics, Brace Yourselves' by Thomas Rid at kingsofwar.org

• 'Wall Street Bonus Withdrawl Means Trading Aspen for Coupons' by Max Abelson at bloomberg.com

• 'The Walking Dead: Still Awfully Misogynist' at globalsociology.com

• 'Presence of Mind' by Michael Wood at lrb.co.uk

• 'Cleaning Up the 'Hood' at economist.com (discusses the shift in counter-narcotics to 'drug markets')

Peace.

Photo credit: www.belsayimages.com (Yvette Mattern's Global Rainbow over Spanish City in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, UK)

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 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...

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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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This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'iPads Now Helping Marines to Unleash Hell' by Mark Riffee at dangeroom

• 'War/Photography: An Interview with Simon Norfolk' by Geoff Manaugh at bldblog

• 'Ghosts in the Machine: Do Remote-Control Pilots Get Combat Stress?' by William Saletan at slate.com

• 'National Drug Threat Assessment 2011' by the National Drug Intelligence Center at the US Department of Justice [link]

Have a good weekend!

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This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Mapping the discontinuous spatiality of the contemporary nation-state through the publication of the secret government memo listing 259 facilities around the world considered crucial to everyday life in the US' by Geoff Manaugh at domus

• 'World Drug Report 2011' by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime at unodc.org

• 'Pyramid Schemes' by J. Malcolm Garcia at guernicamag.com

Have a good weekend!

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The apocalypse has apparently been indefinitely postponed. Therefore, you should have the time to check out these items on the reading roundup:

• 'The Lawfulness of the US Operation Against Osama Bin Laden' by Harold Koh (Legal Advisor, US State Department) at opiniojuris.org

• 'Targeted Killing of Drug Lords: Traffickers as Members of Armed Opposition Groups and/or Direct Participants in Hostilities' by Patrick Gallahue at International Journal of Human Rights and Drug Policy

• 'The Cyborgology of Blade Runner' by PJ Rey at cyborgology

• 'The Un-Shock Doctrine' by Slavoj Zizek at guernicamag.com

• 'Globalisation isn't What We Think it is' by Jon Wilson at leftfootforward.org

• 'Foucault and Writing 2' by Clare O'Farrell at refractedinput

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

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This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'How Election-Ready Wardrobes Win the Day' by John Allemang at theglobeandmail.com

• 'The Royal Wedding Reminds Us that Hereditary Princple is Alive and Well in the UK' by Bart Cammaerts at lseblog

• 'Interview with Gil Kerlikowske (US Drug Czar)' by Susan Glasser and Joshua E. Keating at foreignpolicy.com

• 'Racism by Any Other Name: Whitewashing Les Bleux' at globalsociology

• Dictator Chic' by David Sirota at salon.com

Happy May Day!

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