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."

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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.

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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.

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The New Inquiry has literally everything you'd ever want to read lately: Breaking Bad, ECW, Rape in Little Birds, Jasper Bernes on Occupy, and Q & A with Juliana Spahr (bonus article here, super bonus Chain in Jacket 2).

In other news, Viewpoint Magazine has a new issue up and it looks amazing.

Kathi Weeks talks about "The Problem with Work."

AK press publishes notes on occupy, We Are Many.

NYT gets on the Claude McKay bandwagon.

And lastly, 4 Chan and the Currency of the Commons.

Links

An Open Letter to the UC Community From Some Friends: "NO COPS / NO BOSSES / NO COMPROMISES / WE WANT EVERYTHING."

Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption, Robert Latham.

The Culture of the New Capitalism, Richard Sennet.

Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System, Giovanni Arrighi & Beverly J. Silver.

Why We're Still Blocking Classes, notes on the continuation of the Montreal student strikes.

Comix on the struggles of the working class: Prole.info

Women who write poetry criticism roundtable with Juliana Spahr, Vanessa Place, Danielle Pafunda, and more!

"Actual Riots as Necessary!": Interview with Brian Ang.

Sarah Lawrence, with Guns! Notes on teaching at Westpoint.

Felix Guitiari, Why Italy?

Sol Lewitt.
Pollution in Richmond.
Erika Sati and the City from Summer School in the Bay.
Brian Kim Stefans in LARB.

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Rolling Stone thinks through the real of global warming while the LA Times thinks through a world with 7 Billion people.

The women of Brooklyn are being realistic, demanding the impossible; meanwhile, Metamute goes spelunking in The Gender Rift in Communisation.

Hyphenated-Republic on the Lakeview School Occupation.

Two from LARB: on deforestation; the rise of Benjamin studies. On a side note, I'm so glad LARB exists!

My other recent romance, The New Inquiry, has a new issue out on Cops, featuring some of my favorite bloggers/writers. Here's a solid piece on the rise of domestic drones. Also, if you haven't heard of Imp Kerr, editor of TNI, nows the time to go image searching.

There's always more, but I really need to restart my desktop.