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This week's review is a flake shorter-but I'm actually pleased that it's packed amongst swell content written past times women & featuring women summation a lot of nutrient for idea on 'surveillance capitalism' large & small...

Development news: WFP teams upward amongst Palantir, welcomes 'mature debate' on data; Gucci & blackface; UK's successful aid; fourth dimension for a alter at the World Bank; women humanitarians inward Fiji; curvy women inward Uganda; Amnesty's martyrdom culture; the solely dark adult woman at the philanthropy dinner table.

Our digital lives: Fighting billionaires; surveillance capitalism essay; the foreign representative of mass covers inward the digital age.

Academia: Are y'all listening to the correct music to live on productive?

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How Development Projects Persist (book review)

But Beck’s mass is also an of import reminder how traditional together with ‘innovative’ manifestations of capitalism are constantly expanding, looking for novel places, subjects together with capillary systems such every bit ‘microfinance’ to spread a message that ‘there is no alternative’ to Western understandings of progress.
I incertitude that many organisations inward the evolution manufacture would disagree amongst the findings. Is this non a success even out that inward the terminate women are created every bit neoliberal-capitalist agents – no affair how these agents endeavour to play ‘development’ along the way? After good over ii decades, evolution anthropology has no longer the standing to ‘expose’ hidden aspects of local ability struggles, private way together with evolution processes that tweak, ignore or ‘remix’ the evolution tool box.
Beck’s mass confidently confirms a infinite for evolution anthropology inward the discipline, but her comparative ethnography also raises of import questions of where a to a greater extent than radical locus of ethnographic storytelling resides these days.

Development news
Welcome to the Bold together with Blocky Instagram Era of Book Covers

The delight of the in-person sense doesn’t alter the reality that nearly people volition conk along to purchase their books online. But every bit our physical together with digital worlds converge, books — or at to the lowest degree their covers — are finding a way to straddle both. You tin convey your middle candy together with read it, too.

Margot Boyer-Dry for Vulture on the strangely intriguing topic of mass covers together with communicating them inward the historic menstruation digital age...

We called BS on AI.
Here's a thread of what nosotros learned.
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— Prof Gina Neff (@ginasue) February 3, 2019

Academia
Chill Beats to Study/Relax to

It’s a phenomenon born on YouTube, which is but every bit pop for music regain every bit it is for beauty tutorials or long-winded, semi-sincere apology videos. The ii nearly pop lo-fi streams on YouTube convey millions of subscribers, amongst thousands of people tuning inward at whatever given time, together with both convey “study” inward their titles. Usually paired amongst to a greater extent than or less serene, calming visuals, the channels—which broadcast morning, noon, together with night, the nearly prominent tended to past times a mysterious DJ who doesn’t grant interviews—the deed of studying, concentrating on a task, or otherwise working is similar a shot inextricably linked to lo-fi. It’s similar a shot together with therefore associated amongst productivity that Spotify’s “Lo-Fi Beats” playlist, which late surpassed i 1000000 subscribers, describes itself every bit “beats to relax together with focus.”

Jody Amable for JStor Daily amongst a swell reminder why I similar to remove heed to lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to-literally every bit I compiled the review!