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Details from Arthur Rackham’s illustration "And now they never meet in grove or green," (1908) from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
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Apropos of nothing, here is a baker's dozen images of bird-shaped brooches ca. 6th century, from Frankish, Vendel, and Anglo-Saxon artisans. They all come from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection on JSTOR, which includes nearly half a million open access images for everyone!
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reasonsforhope · 9 months
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"Similar to the expeditions of a hundred or two hundred years ago, the Tara Pacific expedition lasted over two years. Its goal was to research the conditions for life and survival of corals. The ship crossed the entire Pacific Ocean, assembling the largest genetic inventory conducted in any marine system to date. The team's 70 scientists from eight countries took around 58,000 samples from the hundred coral reefs studied.
The first results of the analysis have now been published in Nature Communications. This largest-ever data set collection on coral reef ecosystems is freely available, and for years to come, will be the basis for elucidating the living conditions for corals and finding a way for them to survive climate change.
Important first results of the expedition show that global microbial biodiversity is much higher than previously thought. The impacts of the environment on evolutionary adaptation are species-specific, and important genes in corals are duplicated.
Global biodiversity ten times higher than assumed
Coral reefs are the most biologically diverse marine ecosystem on Earth. Although they cover only 0.16% of the world's oceans, they are home to about 35% of known marine species. Using a genetic marker-based data set, the researchers found that all of the globally estimated bacterial biodiversity is already contained in the microorganisms of coral reefs.
"We have been completely underestimating the global microbial biodiversity," says Christian Voolstra, professor of genetics of adaptation in aquatic systems at the University of Konstanz and scientific coordinator of the Tara Pacific expedition. He says the current estimate of biodiversity (approximately five million bacteria) is underestimated by about a factor of 10.
Impacts of the environment on evolutionary adaptation are species-specific
The 32 archipelagos studied serve as natural laboratories and provide a wide range of environmental conditions, allowing scientists to disentangle the relationships between environmental and genetic parameters across large spatial scales. This led to another important finding: The effects the environment has on evolutionary adaptation trajectories of corals are species-specific. To determine this, the researchers examined the telomeres, the ends of chromosomes that are the carriers of genetic information, for the first time.
In humans, the length of telomeres decreases during life; that is, with an increasing number of cell divisions, suggesting that biological age is closely linked to the length of telomeres. Researchers on the Tara Pacific expedition have now found that the telomeres in very stress-resistant corals are always the same length. "They apparently have a mechanism to preserve the lengths of their telomeres," Voolstra concludes...
Important genes are duplicated
Research data from the Tara Pacific expedition brought to light that the long life of some coral species may have yet another reason: the duplication of certain genes. Many important genes are present multiple times in the genome. The researchers were able to determine this through sequencing of coral genomes employing a new high-resolution technique.
This technique, called long-read sequencing, makes it possible to not only determine the set of genes present, but also to look at their order in the genome. According to Voolstra, the pervasive presence of gene duplication could be a possible explanation for why corals can live for thousands of years despite being exposed, for instance, to extreme UV radiation in shallow waters.
The entire data collection is freely accessible
All data sets are openly accessible and fully described with accompanying physical and chemical measurements to provide them as a scientific resource to all researchers.
"This is unique," Voolstra says. "It is the largest data set collection on coral reefs ever collected and it is completely open access." The aspiration is that this data collection will serve as a foundation and inventory to guide future study of coral reefs worldwide for many years."
-via Phys.org, June 26, 2023
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Folks if you're not familiar with Sidestone Press yet, they're a Dutch academic publisher who make every book they publish available to read online for free (and a selection is also freely downloadable as a PDF, such as Egyptian Bioarchaeology, edited by Salima Ikram et al.). Open access is one of their founding principles and I highly encourage looking through their published works, which cover fields such as archaeology and Egyptology, but also philosophy, linguistics, media studies, law & criminology, and others.
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The (open) web is good, actually
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I'll be at the Studio City branch of the LA Public Library tonight (Monday, November 13) at 1830hPT to launch my new novel, The Lost Cause. There'll be a reading, a talk, a surprise guest (!!) and a signing, with books on sale. Tell your friends! Come on down!
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The great irony of the platformization of the internet is that platforms are intermediaries, and the original promise of the internet that got so many of us excited about it was disintermediation – getting rid of the middlemen that act as gatekeepers between community members, creators and audiences, buyers and sellers, etc.
The platformized internet is ripe for rent seeking: where the platform captures an ever-larger share of the value generated by its users, making the service worst for both, while lock-in stops people from looking elsewhere. Every sector of the modern economy is less competitive, thanks to monopolistic tactics like mergers and acquisitions and predatory pricing. But with tech, the options for making things worse are infinitely divisible, thanks to the flexibility of digital systems, which means that product managers can keep subdividing the Jenga blocks they pulling out of the services we rely on. Combine platforms with monopolies with digital flexibility and you get enshittification:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
An enshittified, platformized internet is bad for lots of reasons – it concentrates decisions about who may speak and what may be said into just a few hands; it creates a rich-get-richer dynamic that creates a new oligarchy, with all the corruption and instability that comes with elite capture; it makes life materially worse for workers, users, and communities.
But there are many other ways in which the enshitternet is worse than the old good internet. Today, I want to talk about how the enshitternet affects openness and all that entails. An open internet is one whose workings are transparent (think of "open source"), but it's also an internet founded on access – the ability to know what has gone before, to recall what has been said, and to revisit the context in which it was said.
At last week's Museum Computer Network conference, Aaron Straup Cope gave a talk on museums and technology called "Wishful Thinking – A critical discussion of 'extended reality' technologies in the cultural heritage sector" that beautifully addressed these questions of recall and revisiting:
https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2023/11/11/therapy/#wishful
Cope is a museums technologist who's worked on lots of critical digital projects over the years, and in this talk, he addresses himself to the difference between the excitement of the galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) sector over the possibilities of the web, and why he doesn't feel the same excitement over the metaverse, and its various guises – XR, VR, MR and AR.
The biggest reason to be excited about the web was – and is – the openness of disintermediation. The internet was inspired by the end-to-end principle, the idea that the network's first duty was to transmit data from willing senders to willing receivers, as efficiently and reliably as possible. That principle made it possible for whole swathes of people to connect with one another. As Cope writes, openness "was not, and has never been, a guarantee of a receptive audience or even any audience at all." But because it was "easy and cheap enough to put something on the web," you could "leave it there long enough for others to find it."
That dynamic nurtured an environment where people could have "time to warm up to ideas." This is in sharp contrast to the social media world, where "[anything] not immediately successful or viral … was a waste of time and effort… not worth doing." The social media bias towards a river of content that can't be easily reversed is one in which the only ideas that get to spread are those the algorithm boosts.
This is an important way to understand the role of algorithms in the context of the spread of ideas – that without recall or revisiting, we just don't see stuff, including stuff that might challenge our thinking and change our minds. This is a much more materialistic and grounded way to talk about algorithms and ideas than the idea that Big Data and AI make algorithms so persuasive that they can control our minds:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens
As bad as this is in the social media context, it's even worse in the context of apps, which can't be linked into, bookmarked, or archived. All of this made apps an ominous sign right from the beginning:
https://memex.craphound.com/2010/04/01/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-you-shouldnt-either/
Apps interact with law in precisely the way that web-pages don't. "An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a crime to defend yourself against corporate predation":
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/27/an-audacious-plan-to-halt-the-internets-enshittification-and-throw-it-into-reverse/
Apps are "closed" in every sense. You can't see what's on an app without installing the app and "agreeing" to its terms of service. You can't reverse-engineer an app (to add a privacy blocker, or to change how it presents information) without risking criminal and civil liability. You can't bookmark anything the app won't let you bookmark, and you can't preserve anything the app won't let you preserve.
Despite being built on the same underlying open frameworks – HTTP, HTML, etc – as the web, apps have the opposite technological viewpoint to the web. Apps' technopolitics are at war with the web's technopolitics. The web is built around recall – the ability to see things, go back to things, save things. The web has the technopolitics of a museum:
https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2014/09/11/brand/#dconstruct
By comparison, apps have the politics of a product, and most often, that product is a rent-seeking, lock-in-hunting product that wants to take you hostage by holding something you love hostage – your data, perhaps, or your friends:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs
When Anil Dash described "The Web We Lost" in 2012, he was describing a web with the technopolitics of a museum:
where tagging was combined with permissive licenses to make it easy for people to find and reuse each others' stuff;
where it was easy to find out who linked to you in realtime even though most of us were posting to our own sites, which they controlled;
where a link from one site to another meant one person found another person's contribution worthy;
where privacy-invasive bids to capture the web were greeted with outright hostility;
where every service that helped you post things that mattered to you was expected to make it easy for you take that data back if you changed services;
where inlining or referencing material from someone else's site meant following a technical standard, not inking a business-development deal;
https://www.anildash.com/2012/12/13/the_web_we_lost/
Ten years later, Dash's "broken tech/content culture cycle" described the web we live on now:
https://www.anildash.com/2022/02/09/the-stupid-tech-content-culture-cycle/
found your platform by promising to facilitate your users' growth;
order your technologists and designers to prioritize growth above all other factors and fire anyone who doesn't deliver;
grow without regard to the norms of your platform's users;
plaster over the growth-driven influx of abusive and vile material by assigning it to your "most marginalized, least resourced team";
deliver a half-assed moderation scheme that drives good users off the service and leaves no one behind but griefers, edgelords and trolls;
steadfastly refuse to contemplate why the marginalized users who made your platform attractive before being chased away have all left;
flail about in a panic over illegal content, do deals with large media brands, seize control over your most popular users' output;
"surface great content" by algorithmically promoting things that look like whatever's successful, guaranteeing that nothing new will take hold;
overpay your top performers for exclusivity deals, utterly neglect any pipeline for nurturing new performers;
abuse your creators the same ways that big media companies have for decades, but insist that it's different because you're a tech company;
ignore workers who warn that your product is a danger to society, dismiss them as "millennials" (defined as "anyone born after 1970 or who has a student loan")
when your platform is (inevitably) implicated in a murder, have a "town hall" overseen by a crisis communications firm;
pay the creator who inspired the murder to go exclusive on your platform;
dismiss the murder and fascist rhetoric as "growing pains";
when truly ghastly stuff happens on your platform, give your Trust and Safety team a 5% budget increase;
chase growth based on "emotionally engaging content" without specifying whether the emotions should be positive;
respond to ex-employees' call-outs with transient feelings of guilt followed by dismissals of "cancel culture":
fund your platforms' most toxic users and call it "free speech";
whenever anyone disagrees with any of your decisions, dismiss them as being "anti-free speech";
start increasing how much your platform takes out of your creators' paychecks;
force out internal dissenters, dismiss external critics as being in conspiracy with your corporate rivals;
once regulation becomes inevitable, form a cartel with the other large firms in your sector and insist that the problem is a "bad algorithm";
"claim full victim status," and quit your job, complaining about the toll that running a big platform took on your mental wellbeing.
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/18/broken-records/#dashes
The web wasn't inevitable – indeed, it was wildly improbable. Tim Berners Lee's decision to make a new platform that was patent-free, open and transparent was a complete opposite approach to the strategy of the media companies of the day. They were building walled gardens and silos – the dialup equivalent to apps – organized as "branded communities." The way I experienced it, the web succeeded because it was so antithetical to the dominant vision for the future of the internet that the big companies couldn't even be bothered to try to kill it until it was too late.
Companies have been trying to correct that mistake ever since. After three or four attempts to replace the web with various garbage systems all called "MSN," Microsoft moved on to trying to lock the internet inside a proprietary browser. Years later, Facebook had far more success in an attempt to kill HTML with React. And of course, apps have gobbled up so much of the old, good internet.
Which brings us to Cope's views on museums and the metaverse. There's nothing intrinsically proprietary about virtual worlds and all their permutations. VRML is a quarter of a century old – just five years younger than Snow Crash:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
But the current enthusiasm for virtual worlds isn't merely a function of the interesting, cool and fun experiences you can have in them. Rather, it's a bid to kill off whatever is left of the old, good web and put everything inside a walled garden. Facebook's metaverse "is more of the same but with a technical footprint so expensive and so demanding that it all but ensures it will only be within the means of a very few companies to operate."
Facebook's VR headsets have forward-facing cameras, turning every users into a walking surveillance camera. Facebook put those cameras there for "pass through" – so they can paint the screens inside the headset with the scene around you – but "who here believes that Facebook doesn't have other motives for enabling an always-on camera capturing the world around you?"
Apple's VisionPro VR headset is "a near-perfect surveillance device," and "the only thing to save this device is the trust that Apple has marketed its brand on over the last few years." Cope notes that "a brand promise is about as fleeting a guarantee as you can get." I'll go further: Apple is already a surveillance company:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar
The technopolitics of the metaverse are the opposite of the technopolitics of the museum – even moreso than apps. Museums that shift their scarce technology budgets to virtual worlds stand a good chance of making something no one wants to use, and that's the best case scenario. The worst case is that museums make a successful project inside a walled garden, one where recall is subject to corporate whim, and help lure their patrons away from the recall-friendly internet to the captured, intermediated metaverse.
It's true that the early web benefited from a lot of hype, just as the metaverse is enjoying today. But the similarity ends there: the metaverse is designed for enclosure, the web for openness. Recall is a historical force for "the right to assembly… access to basic literacy… a public library." The web was "an unexpected gift with the ability to change the order of things; a gift that merits being protected, preserved and promoted both internally and externally." Museums were right to jump on the web bandwagon, because of its technopolitics. The metaverse, with its very different technopolitics, is hostile to the very idea of museums.
In joining forces with metaverse companies, museums strike a Faustian bargain, "because we believe that these places are where our audiences have gone."
The GLAM sector is devoted to access, to recall, and to revisiting. Unlike the self-style free speech warriors whom Dash calls out for self-serving neglect of their communities, the GLAM sector is about preservation and access, the true heart of free expression. When a handful of giant companies organize all our discourse, the ability to be heard is contingent on pleasing the ever-shifting tastes of the algorithm. This is the problem with the idea that "freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach" – if a platform won't let people who want to hear from you see what you have to say, they are indeed compromising freedom of speech:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/10/e2e/#the-censors-pen
Likewise, "censorship" is not limited to "things that governments do." As Ada Palmer so wonderfully describes it in her brilliant "Why We Censor: from the Inquisition to the Internet" speech, censorship is like arsenic, with trace elements of it all around us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMMJb3AxA0s
A community's decision to ban certain offensive conduct or words on pain of expulsion or sanction is censorship – but not to the same degree that, say, a government ban on expressing certain points of view is. However, there are many kinds of private censorship that rise to the same level as state censorship in their impact on public discourse (think of Moms For Liberty and their book-bannings).
It's not a coincidence that Palmer – a historian – would have views on censorship and free speech that intersect with Cope, a museum worker. One of the most brilliant moments in Palmer's speech is where she describes how censorship under the Inquistion was not state censorship – the Inquisition was a multinational, nongovernmental body that was often in conflict with state power.
Not all intermediaries are bad for speech or access. The "disintermediation" that excited early web boosters was about escaping from otherwise inescapable middlemen – the people who figured out how to control and charge for the things we did with one another.
When I was a kid, I loved the writing of Crad Kilodney, a short story writer who sold his own self-published books on Toronto street-corners while wearing a sign that said "VERY FAMOUS CANADIAN AUTHOR, BUY MY BOOKS" (he also had a sign that read, simply, "MARGARET ATWOOD"). Kilodney was a force of nature, who wrote, edited, typeset, printed, bound, and sold his own books:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-late-street-poet-and-publishing-scourge-crad-kilodney-left-behind-a/
But there are plenty of writers out there that I want to hear from who lack the skill or the will to do all of that. Editors, publishers, distributors, booksellers – all the intermediaries who sit between a writer and their readers – are not bad. They're good, actually. The problem isn't intermediation – it's capture.
For generations, hucksters have conned would-be writers by telling them that publishing won't buy their books because "the gatekeepers" lack the discernment to publish "quality" work. Friends of mine in publishing laughed at the idea that they would deliberately sideline a book they could figure out how to sell – that's just not how it worked.
But today, monopolized film studios are literally annihilating beloved, high-priced, commercially viable works because they are worth slightly more as tax writeoffs than they are as movies:
https://deadline.com/2023/11/coyote-vs-acme-shelved-warner-bros-discovery-writeoff-david-zaslav-1235598676/
There's four giant studios and five giant publishers. Maybe "five" is the magic number and publishing isn't concentrated enough to drop whole novels down the memory hole for a tax deduction, but even so, publishing is trying like hell to shrink to four:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/07/random-penguins/#if-you-wanted-to-get-there-i-wouldnt-start-from-here
Even as the entertainment sector is working to both literally and figuratively destroy our libraries, the cultural heritage sector is grappling with preserving these libraries, with shrinking budgets and increased legal threats:
https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/
I keep meeting artists of all description who have been conditioned to be suspicious of anything with the word "open" in its name. One colleague has repeatedly told me that fighting for the "open internet" is a self-defeating rhetorical move that will scare off artists who hear "open" and think "Big Tech ripoff."
But "openness" is a necessary precondition for preservation and access, which are the necessary preconditions for recall and revisiting. Here on the last, melting fragment of the open internet, as tech- and entertainment-barons are seizing control over our attention and charging rent on our ability to talk and think together, openness is our best hope of a new, good internet. T
he cultural heritage sector wants to save our creative works. The entertainment and tech industry want to delete them and take a tax writeoff.
As a working artist, I know which side I'm on.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/13/this-is-for-everyone/#revisiting
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Image: Diego Delso (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Museo_Mimara,_Zagreb,_Croacia,_2014-04-20,_DD_01.JPG
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metamatar · 10 months
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getting around academic paywalls for papers, and sometimes books
if you have already found a paper or book you want to read, here's some ways to get behind the paywall. researchers do not get any money from publishers of academic papers so many of them will be very happy to give you a copy of their work if you email the academic in question.
the first method maybe blocked in some countries so you may need a vpn. i rec protonvpn, which has a free plan that does not keep any logs.
1. Using SciHub (reliable, but hasn't got many new papers)
a. On a desktop/laptop device
Install the SciHub X Now extension. Clicking the icon of the extension on most academic paper pages leads to it automatically reloading that page with a pdf version of the paper if it is available.
On Firefox:
On Chrome (please switch to firefox if you can! Chrome is set to block adblockers and extensions like this soon.)
b. If you're on a mobile device
Find the DOI or digital object identifier (a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the ISO.) It looks like a bunch of numbers with dots and slashes separating them a bit like this: 10.1109/5.771073.
Go to https://sci-hub.se/ and paste the DOI in its search bar.
2. Using Nexus (new papers and books! better search but is a little slow and buggy)
Nexus is a newer project that borrows logins from users with institutional access, it also aggregates other shadow libraries like libgen so you can find books as well.
a. Telegram Bot: If you already use telegram, the nexus search bot is very intuitive. Copying the name of the paper will do a decent search.
https://t.me/science_nexus_bot
b. Using the website: Has pretty good search, paste the name, authors, DOI whatever you want.
there are extensions that work similarly to schihub-x-now but they don't have a lot of users and are a bit experimental so I will not be recommending them here.
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upennmanuscripts · 5 months
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Exciting news for people who love reading research about manuscripts but don't have money!
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campgender · 6 days
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“The discussion of what constitutes a woman when all the women are not in the room produces just as skewed a result as the discussion that took place in the women’s movement about gender in which not all of the poles of the spectrum were allowed to be present for the discussion. No wonder people who were androgynous could say, ‘We don’t do that butch/femme stuff anymore’. We weren’t in the room. You can’t discuss a spectrum of sexuality if only these many people can come.”
from “Excerpts from ‘Sisterhood: Make It Real’” by Leslie Feinberg
Winter 1995 issue of TransSisters
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justalittlesolarpunk · 4 months
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Solarpunk Sunday Suggestion:
Read something on the anarchist library website
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With the aim of accessibility and in the spirit of knowledge-sharing, a selection of our books are available to download through Open Access programmes. Here you can find links to the books on the OAPEN website, and on other platforms, where you can download electronic copies for free.
@’ is for Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture by Hands, Joss (2010)
A History of Anthropology by Hylland Eriksen, Thomas – Second Edition (2013)
A History of Modern Lebanon by Traboulsi, Fawwaz – Second Edition (2012)
A People’s History of Modern Europe by Pelz, William (2016)
A People’s History of the Russian Revolution by Faulkner, Neil (2017)
A People’s History of the Second World War by Gluckstein, Donny (2012)
A People’s Green New Deal by Alj, Max (2021)
A Theory of ISIS: Political Violence and the Transformation of the Global Order by Mohamedou, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould (2012)
After Queer Theory: The Limits of Sexual Politics by Penney, James (2013)
Anthropology’s World: Life in a Twenty-First Century Discipline by Hannerz, Ulf (2010)
Arms and the People edited by Gonzalez, Mike and Barekat, Houman (2012)
Bad News for Refugees by Philo, Greg, Briant, Emma and Donald, Pauline (2013)
Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption by Pirani, Simon (2018)
Border Watch by Hall, Alexandra (2012)
Borderline Justice by Webber, Frances (2012)
Capitalism’s New Clothes by Cremin, Ciara (2011)
Class Matters: Inequality and Exploitation in 21st Century Britain by Umney, Charles (2018)
Data Power by Thatcher, Jim E., Dalton, Craig M. (2021)
Decolonising the University edited by K. Bhambra, Gurminder, Gebrial, Dalia and Nişancıoğlu, Kerem (2018)
Deepening Divides: How Territorial Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate Our World by Fassin, Didier (2019)
Development Against Democracy by Gendzier, Irene (2017)
Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa edited by Ben Gadha, Maha et al (2021)
Feminist Solutions for Ending War edited by MacKenzie, Megan and Wegner, Nicole
Geographies of Digital Exclusion: Data and Inequality by Graham, Mark and Dittus, Martin
Global Cities At Work: New Migrant Divisions of Labour by Evans, Yara et al. (2009)
Gramsci on Tahrir: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt by De Smet, Brecht (2016)
Green Parties, Green Future by Gahrton, Per (2015)
Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left by Newsinger, John (2018)
How America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West by Parisot, James (2019)
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism by Anievas, Alexander and Nişancıoğlu, Kerem (2015)
Idiotism: Capitalism and the Privatisation of Life by Curtis, Neal
Information Politics: Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society by Jordan, Tim (2015)
Inventing Africa: History, Archaeology and Ideas Derricourt, Robin (2011)
Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, Violence and the State by Mehmet Kurt (2017)
Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left by Lause, Mark A. (2018)
Lost Worlds: Latin America and the Imagining of Empire by Foster, Kevin (2009)
Managerial Capitalism: Ownership, Management and the Coming New Mode of Production by Lévy, Dominique and Duménil, Gérard
Monitored: Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data by Bloom, Peter (2019)
Nature for Sale: Commons versus Commodities by Ricoveri, Giovanna (2013)
Nomads, Empires, States by van der Pijl, Kees (2007)
Paul Robeson bu Horne, Gerald (2016)
People Without History by Seabrook, Jeremy; Siddiqui, Imran Ahmed (2011)
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America by Wade, Peter (2010)
Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism by Fuchs, Christian (2019)
Right Across the World by Feffer, John (2021)
Sans Papiers by Bloch, Alice, Sigona, Nando, and Zetter, Roger (2014)
Small is Necessary by Nelson, Anitra (2018)
Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the era of human rights by Steve Striffler (2020)
The ABCs of Political Economy by Hahnel, Robin (2014)
The Anthropology of Security edited by Maguire, Mark,  Frois, Catarina and Zurawski, Nils (2014)
The Birth of Capitalism by Heller, Henry (2011)
The Corporation That Changed the World by Robins, Nick (2012)
The Cost of Free Shipping by Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake; Reese, Ellen (2021)
The European Radical Left: Movements and Parties since the 1960s by Charalambous, Giorgos (2021)
The Experience Society by Miles, Steven (2020)
The Financial Crisis and the Global South by Akyüz, Yilmaz (2013)
The Future of Money by Mellor, Mary (2010)
The Limits to Citizen Power by Albert, Victor (2016)
The Making of an African Working Class by Werbner, Pnina (2014)
The Message is Murder by Beller, Jonathan (2017)
The Politics of Permaculture by Leahy, Terry (2021)
The Profit Doctrine by Chernomas, Robert; Hudson, Ian (2016)
The Rise and Fall of the Welfare State by Wahl, Asbjørn (2011)
The Roman Empire by Morley, Neville (2010)
The Struggle for Food Sovereignty edited by Hererra, Remy and Lau, Kin Chi (2015)
The War Correspondent – Second Edition by McLaughlin, Greg (2016)
Theories of Social Capital by Fine, Ben (2010)
Toussaint Louverture by Forsdick, Charles; Høgsbjerg, Christian (2017)
Tweets and the Streets by Gerbaudo, Paolo (2012)
Understanding Al Qaeda by Mohamedou, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould (2011)
Using Gramsci by Filippini, Michele (2016)
When Protest Becomes Crime by Terwindt, Carolijn (2019)
Work, Sex and Power by Thompson, Willie (2015)
Working the Phones by Woodcock, Jamie (2016)
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borgevino · 4 months
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still can't see jstor without remembering aaron swartz. don't think it really needs or deserves a fandom of any kind altho it has gotten marginally better at access since then.
may his memory be for a blessing.
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jstor · 1 year
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BEHOLD these beautiful dragon-themed plates from 15th-century Spain! These most likely come from the town of Manises, which was renowned for its lusterware. This type of pottery was heavily influenced by Islamic pottery, and the Spanish artisans who made these plates included both Muslims and Christians.
But anyway, DRAGONS!
These images come from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection on JSTOR, which includes nearly half a million open access images for everyone.
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medievalistsnet · 2 years
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llyfrenfys · 1 month
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Noswaith dda! I'm still taking a break from most work on Llyfr Enfys for the remainder of the month due to health issues - but I've teamed up with The GNC Network to publish another chapter from my dissertation on their carrd (link in their Instagram bio @transgnc_network_official). Big diolch to The GNC Network for publishing this next chapter. I hope you all enjoy it.
If you haven't seen, I'm offering a $1 tier on my Patreon (link in my bio) to help support me with dental care costs (see last post). So if you enjoy my work, please consider donating so I can afford to keep my teeth!
Happy reading pawb!
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burningvelvet · 1 year
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guys! read this and sign the petition in the link (if you don’t care about reading the full statement, here’s the petition link any way: https://www.battleforlibraries.com)
https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/17/heres-how-to-participate-in-mondays-oral-arguments/
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