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Showing posts with label Baltimore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baltimore. Show all posts
Monday, June 6, 2022

20th Anniversary of HBO's "The Wire"

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In 2011, we started a project entitled "Anthropology By the Wire" with participants drawn mainly from community colleges in the ...
Monday, August 15, 2016

Tales From the Remix Anthropologist

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For anthropology, remix always sounded better than it looked in practice.  After all, even though it is hard to argue with Jenkins's wr...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Zombie in the Armchair: Anthropologists as Connective Agents

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One of the community groups we work with has a book out.  Another has just won a major victory for environmental justice.  A third is ...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

Right to the City in Baltimore and Design Anthropology

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Note: the narrative for my Design Anthropology class for Spring 2016. People in Baltimore demand a “right to the city,” i.e., to live in ...
Friday, July 5, 2013

Friending the Man of the Crowd

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Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's story " The Man of the Crowd " by Harry Clarke (1889-1931), first printed in 1923 (f...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

"By the Wire," not "Through the Wire"

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 It has been 10 years since David Simon's "The Wire" premiered on HBO.  A product of Simon's long-time partnership with...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Future Baltimore!

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It's pretty hard to imagine a more Gothic city than Baltimore (in the literary sense). You've got the Faulkner-esque kind of gothic...