More Favorite Sites
This page collects places and spaces from around the web that I either read often, read infrequently, love, want to read, want to love, feel begrudgingly connected to, or just think are neat. There are a few categories, with very little logic on which site belongs where.
Welcome to the flattened, rhizomatic, indefinitely infinite web!
Me, Elsewhere
I exist online in a few other curated spots:
Readings
A list of sites I go for reading. Roughly weekly, although I go through periods of forgetting to check!
| Category | Site Name | Notes |
| News | ||
| Financial Times (paywalled) | Premier global business journalism. Damn posh, and a close friend to all billionaires. Liberal center-right. | |
| The Intercept | Global news, with a left-libertarian bent. | |
| The Guardian | UK Based liberal outlet, mainstream. | |
| Culture | ||
| Current Affairs | A monthly lefty mag in the U.S. | |
| Boston Review | A lefty collection of articles on national and global issues | |
| Real Life Magazine | A site featuring critical works on technology, affiliated with the Theorizing the Web conference organizers. (Archived) | |
| Salvage | Communists writing about the world, including China Miéville. | |
| Harper’s | One of the oldest periodicals in the U.S., with a fabulous “Index” in each issue with tantalizing tidbit statistics. | |
| The New Inquiry | Little lefty indie publication, seems to have slowed down in recent years. | |
| Chuang | A lefty journal out of China (in English). | |
| Antipode | A journal of “radical geography,” more academic | |
| Literature | ||
| The Times Literary Supplement | The TLS of London, a great site for essays and books and more. | |
| Literature Hub | A site that collects what appears to be a bunch of US-focused literature shorts, reviews, excerpts, interviews. | |
| London Review of Books | The London Review of books, literature, essays, and other tidbits! | |
| ZZYZVA | An San Francisco based outlet, doing weird and beautiful and wondrous writings. | |
| The Paris Review (Paywall) | One of the oldest “belles lettres” publications in the US, still in print, I love getting my subscription in the mail. | |
| Lightspeed Magazine | Great independent science fiction and fantasy (speculative fiction) online, for free! | |
| Brittle Paper | Online journal focusing on African and -diasporic writers. | |
| The Black Scholar | US-based journal focusing on Black scholarship and race studies. | |
| Paper Republic | Chinese fiction and poetry in translation. Sometimes goes offline. | |
| Tech | ||
| Data&Society | A project (initially) of danah boyd, now a research institute with an impressive array of critical technologist. Far more clear and level-headed than any siliconbro or techbro site. | |
| Slashdot | Don’t spend too much time on comments, but this is one of the oldest “news blog” sites on the web. | |
| BoingBoing | Name aside, BoingBoing is also one of the oldest tech blogs still running. Associated with Cory Doctorow, among other famous names. | |
| Schneier | Bruce Schneier’s blog, a titan in the cybersecurity industry. | |
| TechDirt | Another news blog site, similar to “/.” | |
| LWN.net | Linux kernel news–super nerdy, often very helpful! | |
| Research | ||
| The Disorder of Things | A critical global relations (international studies) blog. Academic. | |
| Journal of Global South Studies | Academic journal (open access mostly) of and about the Global South | |
| Hypotheses | Collection of academic blogs, all sorts of topics. | |
| RAND | The OG “think tank” started by the U.S. pentagon. Very D.C. beltway in orientation and politics. Always supports armed intervention. | |
| CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies. U.S. military affiliated “think tank.” Always supports armed intervention. | |
| ECFR | The European Council on Foreign Relations – think CSIS, but for Europe. Classic liberals, not against using U.S. imperialism however. | |
| Social Europe | Slightly critical EU relations site. Center-left bent. | |
| SIPRI | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Precisely what it sounds like. Slightly eurocentric. | |
| UN Data | Datasets provided by the United Nations. Generally considered accurate. | |
| SOMO | Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (NL). If you’re wanting to read about greenwashing and other corporate malfeasance (that doesn’t make the news because $$$), here’s your place. |