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Saturday, August 1, 2009

The Networked Rise of Network Society: A Review of This is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams

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We all know we live in a network society. But what does that mean? And what does knowing that mean for networked society? In his latest n...
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...
Friday, March 6, 2009

My interest in anthropological futures

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My own entry into anticipatory anthropology started with my dissertation work, research that forms the basis for my forthcoming book, Librar...
Monday, February 9, 2009

Tomorrow, Networks!

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Laney reaches up and removes the bulky, old-fashioned eyephones. Yamazaki cannot see what outputs to them, but the shifting light from the d...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Previewing Post-Capitalism

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How many books are there (in anthropology and elsewhere) describing/advocating/conjuring up "post-socialism"? I'm looking at o...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

The Polygenism of Science Fiction

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I just finished reading Ben Bova's Mars Life , largely because of its enigmatic dedication to the former polygenist, Carleton S. Coon. C...
Thursday, November 6, 2008

On the Trail of Emergence

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As the Python sketch said long, long ago: "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" By definition, future forms and practices will...