All Tomorrow's Cultures

A couple of decades ago, social network analysis was a fairly recondite branch of sociology and anthropology applying mathematical matri...

I watched Carol Reed’s “ The Third Man ” (1949) again last week, and I was again reminded what a perfect parable the film is for the ethno...

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...

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

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

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

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