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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Zombie in the Armchair: Anthropologists as Connective Agents

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One of the community groups we work with has a book out.  Another has just won a major victory for environmental justice.  A third is ...
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...
Friday, March 18, 2016

Twitter's New Anti-Timeline

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Twitter's new, non-chronological timeline ranks tweets by their (algorithmically) perceived importance to your network.  As they say in...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Twitter's Time Effects: Why Twitter Needs to Become a Time Lord Social Media

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As Twitter continues to flounder as a business, many have tendered their advice for the struggling company.  On the other hand, people at T...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

Right to the City in Baltimore and Design Anthropology

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Note: the narrative for my Design Anthropology class for Spring 2016. People in Baltimore demand a “right to the city,” i.e., to live in ...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

All Aboard the Quantum Train: connecting self, space and time in Seoul’s subway

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Abstract for a new paper . . . The city consists of a collision of relativistic spaces and temporalities that overlap in tension with ea...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Networked representation of the first chapter of Networked Anthropology

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Courtesy of textextture.com , the first chapter to Networked Anthropology (me and Matthew Durington).