National Security State

Edward J. Snowden, “The World Says No to Surveillance.”

The Guardian, “View on Surveillance after Snowden: An Outlaw Rewrites the Law.”

David Cole, “Reining in the NSA.”

Dan Froomkin, “USA Freedom Act: Small Step for Post-Snowden Reform, Giant Leap for Congress.”

Don Franzen interviews Erwin Chemerinsky, “The Legal Legacy of Citizen Four.”

Anne Richardson, “That Fine Line Between Hero and Traitor: What Can We Learn from the Snowden Disclosures?” review of After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy and Security in the Information Age, edited by Ronald Goldfarb.

Glenn Greenwald, “Did Max Boot and Commentary Magazine Lie About Edward Snowden? You Decide.”

David Dayen, “The Scariest Trade Deal Nobody’s Talking About Just Suffered a Big Leak.”

Bryan Magers, “The War in Africa the US Military Won’t Admit It’s Fighting.”

Evironment and Disaster

Jon Cogburn, “#DECELERATE MANIFESTO for a Decelerationist Anti-Politics.”

Doris Apel, “The Ruins of Capitalism.”

Arthur Neslen and Karl Mathiesen, “Paris Climate Pledges ‘Will Only Delay Dangerous Warming by Two Years.'”

Martha Baskin, “In the Face of Shell’s Arctic Drilling Plans, Seattle Activists Speak Out.”

Fallout 4 has been announced:

 

 

Hyperarchival

Ursula K. Le Guin, “Up the Amazon with the BS Machine, or Why I Keep Asking You Not to Buy Books from Amazon.”

David Auerbach, “The Code We Can’t Control,” review of The Black Box Society, by Frank Pasquale.

Lawrence Joseph and Frank Pasquale, “Interview on The Black Box Society.“

Michael Massing, “Digital Journalism: How Good Is It?” and “Digital Journalism: The Next Generation.”

 

Science

Kenneth Chang, “LightSail, a Private Spacecraft, Goes Unexpectedly Quiet.”

 

Literature and Culture

Zadie Smith, “Escape from New York.”

Steven Shaviro, introduction to Discognition: Fictions and Fabulations of Science (draft of book in progress).

McKenzie Wark, “Žižek and Me.”

Arti Shahani, “Getting ‘Physical’ and Emotional in Virtual Reality.”

The 33 1/3 series is accepting book proposals. (If I had time, which I don’t, I would try to write one on Orchid’s Chaos Is Me.)

Sunset:

 

 

And Clickhole, “We Asked Eight Famous Authors for the Most Important Advice They’d Give to Young Writers.”

 

Humanities and Higher Education

Laura Kipnis, “My Title IX Inquisition” (for those without access to the Chronicle of Higher Education, read here).

Natasha Vargas-Cooper, “Feminist Students Protest Feminist Prof for Writing about Feminism.”

Rei Terada, “Recrimination and Ruined Hope.”

Judith Shulevitz, “In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas.”

Edward Schlosser, “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me.”

Malcolm Harris, “Western Canon, Meet Trigger Warning.”

Noam Chomsky, “The Death of the American University.”

Shawn Johnson, “Budget Committee Passes $250M Cut to UW System.”

Valerie Strauss, “Is Governor Scott Walker Putting the University of Wisconsin System in Jeopardy?”