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Showing posts with label anthropological science fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anthropological science fiction. 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...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Speculative Anthropology Series in Cultural Anthropology

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Please check out this provocative collection of papers at cultural anthropology.  Edited by Ryan Anderson, Emma Louise Backe, Taylor Nelms...
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...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Steve Toutonghi's Join and Notes on a Networked Anthropology of the Future

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There are many interesting formations that might be called networked phenomena.  Homophily and the tendency towards triad closure.  Scott...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Ursula K. Le Guin: Anthropological, But Not an Anthropologist

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An essay I wrote a few years ago that has emerged from behind its paywall . . .Let's hear it for Science Fiction Studies ! http://www...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Fiddling With Le Guin (2009)

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Here's my 2009 review essay for Science Fiction Studies on some interesting secondary scholarship on Ursula K. Le Guin.  
Monday, May 16, 2011

The New Anthropological Science Fiction--A Review of Ekaterina Sedia

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Over the past months, I have been trying to decide (if only in my own mind) what anthropological science fiction looks like today.  After...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Book Review, The City and the City: China Mieville and the Revival of Anthropological Science Fiction

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I have often suggested that China Mieville is the best new writer of anthropological science fiction, although appending the word "anth...