Scared of my own voice
I publish under a pseudonym, that of the ‘The Anxious Anthropologist’. This suits me as it’s like donning a mask and going to a party. You get to…
An anthropologist walks into… a gym
Katie Hejtmanek is a cultural anthropologist who studies the culture of strength sports (powerlifting, weightlifting, CrossFit) in the United States. Her articles for BarBend offer not only interesting…
How robots took over our lives and we failed to notice
The dystopian vision of a future in which robots take over the human race is as old as it is powerful—and is always in ‘the future’. Or is…
Call for Papers der under.docs: Kategorien, Typen und Stereotype
Die under.docs der Universität Wien veranstalten von 20. bis 22. Oktober 2016 eine Fachtagung zu Kommunikation mit dem Schwerpunkt “Kategorien, Typen und Stereotype in den Geistes- und Sozialwis…
The politics of decency #Brexit
I have lots of things to say about Brexit. As a Romanian, holding a French passport, resident of the UK for the past 18 years, whose wife and…
Anthro in the news 7/4/16
Presidential woes in Afghanistan Source: Adam Ferguson/The New Yorker The New Yorker carried a long piece describing the role of Ashraf Ghani, who trained as a cultural anthropologist,…
The Flexibility of Language
An interesting article came out today entitled Bojophrenia: a new word for a new world. Of interest to linguists, discourse analysts or anthropologists looking to describe the ever changing…
Fixing things: Moving image stories into case stories by Jenna Grant
During her pregnancy, Puthea went to a private maternity clinic for regular ultrasound exams. This clinic was one of the larger and more popular in Phnom Penh at…
golden age of barbarians w/ james c sott
synthetic zero “How did so many of us, Homo sapiens, quite late in our species history, come to live in sedentary heaps of people, grain, and domesticated animals…
Democracy on speed #Brexit
The question, when it came, was striking in its simplicity: “should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?” Two boxes.…
The Anthropologist’s Brexit
Anthropologists have responded to the result of the UK’s referendum to leave the European Union with a mixture of condemnation, despair, and reflection on the conditions that created ‘Brexit’…
Changing Global Economies
For decades, investors in advanced economies (AEs) have shaped the evolution of global markets. Research shows that advanced economy investors tend to hold diversified…
Welcome to the Anthropocene – Video of debate with Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler
Welcome to the Anthropocene – Video of debate with Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler (via Philippe Theophanidis) We no longer live in the Holocene. Welcome to the Anthropocene!…
In praise of muddling
I’ve been rather harshly reminded of late how bad a forum Twitter is for complex discussion, so I’m going to try to work through some tangled thoughts and…
Style, bad prose, and Corey Robin’s theory of public intellectuals
Ten years ago, before I started doing research in France, I wrote my MA thesis about the politics of “bad writing” in the American humanities. Empirically, my major…
Brexit: a View From Johannesburg
This post is a translation and an adaptation of the Italian-speaking radio report that was broadcast on 28 June on Radio Bullets. By Gaia Manco The UK vote…
Brexit: a View From Johannesburg
This post is a translation and an adaptation of the Italian-speaking radio report that was broadcast on 28 June on Radio Bullets. By Gaia Manco The UK vote…
Brexit: a View From Johannesburg
This post is a translation and an adaptation of the Italian-speaking radio report that was broadcast on 28 June on Radio Bullets. By Gaia Manco The UK vote…
Brexit: a View From Johannesburg
This post is a translation and an adaptation of the Italian-speaking radio report that was broadcast on 28 June on Radio Bullets. By Gaia Manco The UK vote…
Rubber Barons’ Abuses Live On in Memory and Myth
The Kukama people who live along the lower part of Peru’s Marañón River tell intergenerational myths that recollect the violence and trauma of the rubber era, which peaked in…
Remaking the Museum for the 21st century
Several months ago, Robert Fogarty asked if I wanted to contribute something to a special issue of The Antioch Review called “The Future of Museums.” I did! It’s been…
Links & Contents I Liked 189
Hi all, Welcome to an almost Brexit-free link review that focuses on the mundane absurdities, LOLs, but also thoughtful insights that a week in development communication has to…