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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Mind the Gap—Technology and the Multiplication of Space/Time

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Sitting on my desk is a book that I page through when I have a moment: Quantum City .  It’s not something I’m going to assign in classes—i...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

You Ruined My Game

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(previously published in Anthropology News ) As the brief, terrifying passion for  MOOCs  slowly dissipates, your university administrat...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

the sceptical futuryst: Participatory cli-fi: the Making of FutureCoast

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An interesting, collaborative project . . . the sceptical futuryst: Participatory cli-fi: the Making of FutureCoast
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...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

Kim Stanley Robinson and the networked frontier

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This piece of mine came out in a collection of essays on California science fiction: http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/the-networked-front...
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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...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

MOOCs, Matrix, Bridge

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At the moment I write this, a creeping group think has saturated both higher education (The Chronicle of Higher Education), and popular m...