Literati roundup: ” the Longlist for 2015 Man Booker Prize.. “British Library releases over a million public domain images

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British Library releases over a million public domain images

 Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder

The British Library uploaded over one million scanned images to Flickr, designating them as public domain for all to share and use. Quartz has an article about the project.

Five American Authors Make the Longlist for 2015 Man Booker Prize

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Five American authors made the longlist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, the most prestigious literary competition in the world.

“Waiting” in the Neoliberal University: The Salaita Case and the Wages of an Academic Boycott

 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology  by Jessica Winegar

This essay by anthropologists Martin Manalansan and Ellen Moodie at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides an updated account of the fall-out from their institution’s un-hiring of Steven Salaita for his tweets critical of the state of Israel during its 2014 war on Gaza. It argues for a broader campaign against the revanchist state and neoliberalization of the university.

“WAITING” IN THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY:  The Salaita Case and the Wages of an Academic Boycott

Martin F. Manalansan IV and Ellen Moodie**

Street artists paint 209 houses to transform hillside into beautiful mural

 Mashable! by Brian Koerber

A youth organization in Mexico transformed a boring hillside into an eye-catching piece of art with the help of the local community.

 

Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking call for ban on “autonomous weapons”

 Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin

Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers and experts have signed a letter calling for a worldwide ban on “autonomous weapons.” The signatories say this new era of robotic and AI-equipped killing machines could set off “the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms.”

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