Sean Goggin (NUI): Human Rights, Anthropology and Securitization: Reclaiming Culture. From Janus Head, J.M. Fritzman (Lewis and Clark): Geist in Mumbai: Hegel with Rushdie; and Matthew T. Powell (Walsh): Kafka's Angel: The Distance of God in a Post-Traditional World. For centuries the Saharawis have called the desert home, but they don't belong here — at least not on this side of the Wall. A review of Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System by Daniel Callahan. Writing as a process: An interview with Mike Rose. Of Steadicams and Skycams: Filmmakers have long sought the means to add a little kinetic energy to their moving images. Invincible Apple: Farhad Manjoo on 10 lessons from the coolest company anywhere. From Social Text, colleagues offer critical appreciations of long-standing Social Text collective member Jose Esteban Munoz's recent book, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. Albania’s iron communist regime survived until 1990, five years after the death of its great dictator, Enver Hoxha — but the country’s political path since then is full of unburied ghosts. Plagiarism Inc: Jordan Kavoosi built an empire of fake term papers; now the writers want their cut. A review of One More Day Everywhere: Crossing 50 Borders on the Road to Global Understanding by Glen Heggstad. Eadweard Muybridge, Thief of Animal Souls: The famed photographer revealed the mechanics of natural motion in the service of 19th-century capitalist commotion. From GlobalPost, a special report on how economic aid in Afghanistan has become "war by other means". The geopolitics of the iPhone: Five ways Apple's new gadget and its cousins are transforming global politics. From Let a Thousand Nations Bloom, check out Secession Week Blogging 2010.
