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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

#Occupy World of Warcraft

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Ernest Cline's Ready Player One is a satisfying recapitulation of a favorite SF trope--the underdogs pitted against the evil establ...
Thursday, September 1, 2011

Hurricane Irene, the 7th Sigma and Cyberpunk Futures

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http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780312877156-0 Last night, I turned the pages of Steven Gould's 7th Sigma--basically a cyberpunk West...
Monday, July 4, 2011

multimedia city

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It’s December of 2010 in Seoul. A woman in her 20’s has taken a seat in the part of the subway reserved for the elderly and physically di...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Anthropology By the Wire: A Public Anthropology?

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At the moment, 12 community college students are sitting in a classroom on our campus getting visual anthropology reports ready for Monday. ...
Thursday, June 2, 2011

A Korean multiculturalism?

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A journalist contacted me about race and racism in South Korea, and I summarized some of my thinking (and prognostications) for him.  You ma...
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...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

The Future is a Foreign Country: locating tomorrow’s world in the world of the Other

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It has been almost thirty years since Johannes Fabian published Time and the Other (1983), a scathing critique of the ways anthropologists ...