A Year Without Flying
As teaching finishes, the last of the marking is done and the exam boards wrap for the year I have a bit of time to reflect back on…
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What Is Going on with the Weather?
Prompted by this summer’s heatwaves, I have just contributed some thoughts on the Ethnographic Practice in Industry Conference (EPIC) blog about climate change and its struggle with…
Not flying. Steps towards a post-carbon Anthropology?
From 8.30pm to 9.30pm this evening is Earth Hour and I am spending it in Frankfurt Airport, en route from Warsaw to Manchester. This is more than just…
What Can Anthropology Tell us about Data in the 21st Century?
Last week I wrote a comment piece for the Corsham Institute’s Observatory for a Connected Society app asking ‘What can Anthropology tell us about data in the 21st…
Affective Infrastructures
My paper on affective infrastructure has just come out in the latest issue of Public Culture. http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/content/29/2_82/363.abstract The paper builds on the work on …
Method and Politics in the Dee Estuary
I am leading a research group at the moment called SLOM:Lab (Social life of Methods Lab). This is a blog post I wrote for the SLOM:Lab.org website last …
Collaborative PhD Studentship – Workplace Design in the Digital Age
UCL Department Anthropology Project Workplace Design in the Digital Age Duration of studentship 3.5 years (to start 01 Oc…
Is there an Ontology to the Digital
On another digital note, I am really pleased to see the fantastic Digital Ontology collection of essays that Antonia and I collated is now up on the Cultural…
Digital Infrastructure course blog
I’ve been running a course at UCL this term called Digital Infrastructure: Materiality, Information, Politics and the students have been uploading blog posts each week on an infrastructure…
CFP: Digital Environmentalisms
Antonia Walford and I have a panel at this year’s Association of Social Anthropologists conference in Durham exploring the idea of Digital Enviromentalisms. Deadline for paper proposals is…