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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Uncanny Anthropology

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  ( The Somerset onion , from the Pitt Rivers Museum) In his lyrical essay, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (1982), Marsha...
Monday, August 15, 2016

Tales From the Remix Anthropologist

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For anthropology, remix always sounded better than it looked in practice.  After all, even though it is hard to argue with Jenkins's wr...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Steve Toutonghi's Join and Notes on a Networked Anthropology of the Future

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There are many interesting formations that might be called networked phenomena.  Homophily and the tendency towards triad closure.  Scott...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Summer Reading: "Superman Now" (초인은 지금) from 김이환

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I've been following Kim's work for some time now, and, at some point, will post up my impressions of his novel, "Neighborhoo...
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...