A glitch in the matrix / trumam
This was unnerving when talking sci fi. https://www.aakarbooks.com/details.php?bid=875
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A Concert in the Rainforest: Sound in Multispecies Ethnography
A Concert in Analamazaotra The four minute clip above was one of many that I recorded during preliminary fieldwork this past summer in the Eastern rainforest corridor of…
David Newheiser, “The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
David Newheiser is a senior research fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. He is the author of Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction,…
Did Meat Do Neanderthals In?
Studying zinc levels in unearthed Neanderthal skeletal remains, an archaeologist examines whether the carnivorous eating habits of Neanderthals in the Eurasian Steppe contributed to their eventual ext…
Privatisation of academia…
On the issues of weaponising research, this might be a minor quibble, but its part of the great restriction… Of course I like what academia-edu can do for…
Review: Koshersoul
Michael W. Twitty. Koshersoul: The Faith and Journey of an African American Jew. Amistad—An Imprint of Harper Collins. New York: 2022. ISBN: 9780062891754. Richard Zimmer, (Sonoma Stat…
Sāmoan Multiplicities in Sāmoa: Reflections on field trip
In early November, Safua Akeli Amaama, Annika Sippel, and Philipp Schorch spent a week together in Apia, Sāmoa…
Elizabeth Ellcessor on her book, In Case of Emergency
Interview by Volha Verbilovich New York University Press Volha Verbilovich: Emergency media are cultural and temporal. In Case of Emergency develops these definitions, revealing the history…
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, “Metamodernism: The Future of Theory” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous categories—such as religion, science, and art—has collapsed under…
Mrinal Pande, “Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances: The Voice of Morari Bapu in Multiple Media” (Routledge, 2022)
This book addresses the recent transformations of popular Hinduism by focusing upon the religious cum artistic practice of Ramkatha, staged narratives of the Ramcharitmanas. Focusing on the sensory and media…
Ep #100 The laws of Robotics & Anti-Trust Laws: Frank Pasquale on AI Law & Multidisciplinary Interactions
We’re back this week with a great interview with Frank Pasquale! The Familiar Strange · Ep #100 The laws of Robotics & Anti-Trust Frank Pasquale on AI Law…
Targets for pollution
If we are going to do maps, some sort of campaign aspect is implied. Here are ten areas of geocide to consider (a Daly is years of life…
Spivak On Revolution
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | On Revolution
#UBCBoG 2022 Election Results
The 2022 Board of Governors election for faculty governors came to a close Thursday, Dec. 8th at 4pm. Results were announced to the candidates late Friday afternoon. Declared…
Waste theory
Examples of advice that may not be worth the paper they are written on… I was asked to suggest things to read for the topic: “junk content on…
Stuart Earle Strange, “Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname” (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname (U Toronto Press, 2021) explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in…
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes, “Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration” (U Texas Press, 2022)
Migration is typically seen as a transnational phenomenon, but it happens within borders, too. Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration (U Texas Press, 2022), documents…
Tom Bratrud, “Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu” (Berghahn Books, 2022)
In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision.’ However, it ended dramatically…
Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, “Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires” (Cornell UP, 2022)
The episode features Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca, co-authors of an extraordinary, field-shifting new book – Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (Cornell University Press, 2022). Dr. Boatca is a Professor…
Tipu Sultan’s rocket man
Great discussion of iron smelting for coins and guns by Amitabha Ghosh in Aniruddha Ray (ed) “Tipu Sultan and his Age” . Asiatic Society 2002, Park Street. Much…
Links & Contents I Liked 465
Hi all,I’m looking forward to the weekend like anybody else & leave you with a fresh #globaldev review that features articles that are as absurd, shocking, unsurprising &…
David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown, “People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown’s new book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference…
Emily Channell-Justice, “Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine” (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine (U Toronto Press, 2022) explores the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests – a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine –…