Sunday Funday

A quick recap of MOVE.

Curriculum for Marissa Alexander.

Indy Bay has pours bad faith on After the Crest II.

Before being torn down in 1992, Kowloon Walled City had 50,000 residents.

Headline says it all: Bangladeshi workers set fire to factories.

Frances Richard at Open Space, thoughts on the contemporary.

Write Jerry a letter.

The News From Oakland. Good writing, bad people.

John Rieder's essay on Genre and SciFi.

Notes on the American Dream: survival is not success, but it's a federal offense to protest near the secret service.

Textile Series, open submissions.

Erika Staiti in Jacket2.

Sharon Mesmer talks flarf.

People's garden in Oakland, still popping!

JClo takes on "Marxist poetics" in the name of historical (pop)materialism; the entirety of this issue of The Claudius App is sort of amazing. Shout outs to Oki, Jaleh, Dana, etc.

I need to shutdown my computer

Sandra Simons picks David Lau for Everyday Genius.
ECW at TNI.

Lana Turner Links:
Joshua Clover and the World System.
Nathan Brown on Badiou, TC, and riots.
Notes on Baudelaire.
Poetry Foundation on LT: (note the list of authors); Poetry Foundation on JClo's "Insurrectionary Turn" in the American Reader.

No State Solution in Gaza, dated and still relevant.
Malcolm Harris on the education bubble.
Brandon Brown on Frank Ocean; on Rene Ricard (bonus K. Killian on Ricard).
Spoiler Alert: The history of US veto votes in the UN.

It's cracking in Egypt again; some news coverage.
Steven Spielberg loves him some white people--Aaron Bady on Lincoln; and Cory Robin. 
More notes from KteeO on prison and menstruation. We love you GRRL!
Nina Power on recent actually political movements.
Jodi Angel gets some love from Tinhouse.
Dana Ward's year end music wrap up.
Heather Havrilesky on apocalypse as wish fulfillment.
Notes on comic-novels and Chris Ware.
Manorhouse Quarterly.
Rachel Kushner on Clarice Lispector.
Grading standards to add to all future syllabi.

"Shut it Down."

Link Dump

What is it like to be a Bat? Thomas Nagel
Wen Stephenson on environmental denial in the media.
Joshua Clover, The Insurrectionary Turn in The American Reader (part 1, and 2).
Remember those new technologies the SFPD used to track tweets from the Fuck Columbus weekend beat down? They're probably definitely not unconstitutional.
Whitman understands that whole criminal justice thing; 105, "You Felons on Trial in Cours"
The Incomprehensible Black Anarchist Position. Absolutely, necessary reading.
Kteeo is in jail; she's writing about and raising awareness of political repression Mothers in prison.
ECW doing some Leopoldina Fortunati translations at TNI.
Friends doing some nice music: Doombird, Cygnus EP; bonus! Joe Davencense's soundcloud profile.
The Dreadful Genius of the Obama Moment: Inaugurating Multiculturalist White Supremecy, Dylan Rodriguez.
Malcolm Harris reviews James C. Scott's "Two Cheers for Anarchism" in LARB.
More reading from NC: NC Piece Corps.
Philadelphia's history of Riots.

Link Dump

Music streaming, Sacto edition: Doom Bird; Death Grips; (non-sacto edition) James S.
How media ignore rape culture.
A reading group based on JClo et al.
A lot of things from Cindy Sherman.
Borges lectures on Verse at Harvard, via Ubuweb.
RIP Eric Hobsbawm.
Poetry: Samuel Solomon on young poets in the UK, originally from Lana Turner; Dana Ward interview.
Mandatory reading list, Russian Sci-Fi edition: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's dark, ambiguous Roadside Picnic.
Zucchini Soup, anyone?
Letters to write.