Occasional posts on anthropologically interesting science fiction, anthropological futures and my own future as an anthropologist.
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
NPS Ethnographic Report on Hampton Mansion National Historic Site
An article in the Baltimore Banner by Rona Kobell (https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/local-news/hampton-national-historic-site-east-towson-URF5WGM5TZCAZMJAZBGRU7JYMY/) reminded me about the precarious state of knowledge under an authoritarian regime. Will our report on Hampton National Historic Site disappear from the National Park Service site? In all probability, yes - we are, after all, calling out the enslavement and racism that built the United States. I contributed a chapter on the echoes of that enslavement in the formation of contemporary Baltimore County. So, for now, here's the report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17RT9t1iewAvNxYgjaWV2tStaoNLgcxgT/view?usp=sharing
Book Review of "Making Peace With Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the Korean DMZ"
This is somewhat belated given the publication date, but Kim's book is theoretically suggestive and a great example of multispecies work...
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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...
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(from our storymap ) In my capacity as a fellow in our faculty research center, I've been doing a lot of support work for the u...
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One of the many benchmarks for AI is the “Turing test,” Alan Turing’s adaptation of the “imitation game” where an interrogator must decide...
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