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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Communication without Control: Anthropology and Alternative Models of Information at the Josiah Macy, Jr. Conferences in Cybernetics

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  Communication without Control: Anthropology and Alternative Models of Information at the Josiah Macy, Jr. Conferences in Cybernetics  ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Science Fiction’s Emergent Anthropologies. SF Beyond Anthropological Science Fiction

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 My contribution to a really interesting issue on science fiction and the future in Rivista di antropologia contemporanea (2023). Abtsract...
Friday, August 18, 2023

SETI: Signs in space/ Enacting space

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[From the SETI project, "A Sign in Space" ( https://asignin.space/ )]  “To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world — in...
Monday, July 3, 2023

Agan, the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics

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Here's a recent conference abstract submission, prompted in large part by Geoghegan's 2022 "Code: From Information Theory to Fr...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

Book Review: Played Out – Difference and Repetition in Classic Board Games

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I published this review with "TheGeekAnthropologist" - such an interesting, important blog! Please click on the link to see the re...
Monday, June 6, 2022

20th Anniversary of HBO's "The Wire"

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In 2011, we started a project entitled "Anthropology By the Wire" with participants drawn mainly from community colleges in the ...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

Ghostly Encounters on Google: Spirit Photography, Reverse Image Search and Urban Critique in Baltimore

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In 1866, Alfred Russell Wallace proclaimed a “new branch of anthropology” premised on the Spiritualist movement that was then exploding...