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Showing posts with label alternative futures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alternative futures. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Science Fiction’s Emergent Anthropologies. SF Beyond Anthropological Science Fiction

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 My contribution to a really interesting issue on science fiction and the future in Rivista di antropologia contemporanea (2023). Abtsract...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

A piece for Anthropology Day

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Margaret Mead Imagined Different Futures By Samuel Gerald Collins In the face of climate disaster, a continuing pandemic, and endless glo...
Monday, May 4, 2020

The Impoverishment of the COVID Future

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From Wikimedia Commons   As I complete this essay, the quarantine imposed on Baltimore stretch...
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Thursday, October 3, 2019

Futures at AAACASCA 2019

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The American Anthropological Association/ Canadian Anthropological Society meeting in Vancouver is in November, but the browsable schedule ...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

Mapping the Future at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting

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"The future" (however imagined) continues to be a concern for anthropologists, and this year is no different than 2017 .  But whi...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

Tracking the Future at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

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--> (the Wow! signal, visualized by Benjamin Crowell, from Wikimedia) In a few days, many anthropologists will atten...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Searching for the Anthropological Alien

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An eminently sensible article in today's New York Times from Seth Shostak, the Director of SETI and a tireless advocate for our contin...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Ghost Anthropologies and Other Spectral Possibilities

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[Cross-posted from my column on Anthropology News ] As I write this, magazines, newspapers and blog sites around the world proffer their...