A Virtual Experiment
Are smugglers parasites profiting on human desperation, or do they provide a service to those on the move? Click on the question, and you’ll see a selection of…
Tactics of Power and Empowerment in Knowledge-Making Infrastructures
By Kirk Jalbert, Manager of Community Based Research & Engagement, FracTracker Alliance and Visiting Research Professor, Center for Science, Technology and Society, Drexel University § Energy extr…
Exchange/s by Suzanne Cochrane
mediating microtubules netting and nesting across difference across distance through boundaries permeable or/and with a gloss of seal with folds and gullies muted quiet shouting rages irr…
33. Iñigo Errejón: Podemos as an emergent cultural practice
Photo credit: ca.wikipedia.org This is the thirty-third post in the freedom technologists series I have pasted below some highlights (in Spanish) of an excellent interview with Podemos’ ‘…
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…
Australian feminism and some recent stuff
Hey, so apparently I’m one of Australia’s up and coming feminist icons! No really, in all seriousness, thank you to SBS for including me in their…
Desires: Capitalism, The Pope and Chinese Medicine by Volker Scheid
Prologue: Pope Francis and Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 On 16 June 2015, Pope Francis published Laudato Si’ (Be Praised), an encyclical letter on climate change tellingly subtitled “On Care…
Feminism – alive and kicking
Door Ina Keuper. Op 8 maart was het weer Internationale Vrouwendag en werd ik blij van de vele activiteiten die in verband daarmee overal in Nederland en daarbuiten…
Acceleration of Slow Food: Reflections on the First 30 Years
Ellen Messer Tufts University Carlo Petrini’s Food & Freedom. How the Slow Food Movement is Changing the World Through Gastronomy (John Irving, trans. New York: Rizzoli International…
Exploring Wine Value
Ellen Messer Tufts University Experienced wine political-economist Mike Veseth asserts there is no sure relationship between price and quality. This is because wines in recent decades have been…
The Mystery of the Corpse in the Burlap Sack
On July 28, 1889, a couple drove a carriage down a remote road about a dozen miles south of Lyon, France. Michel Eyraud, a middle-aged conman, and his…
OTG 3: Finding Black Death on a Quiet Hilltop
Photo Courtesy Daniel Suave I pulled my car up to a parking spot on a steep hill, deployed my emergency brake and made to step out of the…
Emptiness and the Medical Encounter: The interior spatial requirements of encountering by Suzanne Cochrane
Thirty spokes converge in a hub There where there is nothing, That is the chariot’s usefulness. Fashion earth to make a vase from it, There where there is…
Links & Contents I Liked 177
Hi all, Many of us will be celebrating Easter and/or enjoy a long weekend of sorts so this is a good opportunity to catch up with some interesting…
EVENTS! #HumanRights
To conclude our thematic week, it’s time for yet another events’ post! This time the theme is, of course, human rights. Given what we have discussed also earlier,…
On Exploring Masculinities in the Middle East
Nasreddin Hodja miniature at the Topkapı Palace Museum Library in İstanbul. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons “Eat, eat my fur coat,” said Nasreddin Hodja to criticize societal attitudes th…
Den Islam verbieten – oder doch die Zeitung “Österreich”?
Der Einfachheit halber dürfen wir gleich aus Wolfgang Fellners Kommentar „Wie lange noch schauen wir dem Terror zu?“ in der Tageszeitung “Österreich” zitieren: „Der dritte Punkt im Kampf…
Should We Act on Israel/Palestine, or Not?
I hope people will read the Task Force Report on Israel/Palestine. It represents hundreds of hours of labor by our colleagues. It reflects what is special about our…
Beyond Zero-Sum Logics on Israel/Palestine
The upcoming vote on a resolution to boycott Israeli academia is unprecedented in our field’s history, and is being followed throughout the social sciences and humanities as a…
Judith Beyer & Felix Girke: Naypyitaw: Rescaling materiality, capitalizing space
Since 2012, we have carried out twelve months of urban anthropological research in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city and its economic and cultural center. Until February 2016, however, we…
CFP: Police Un/Bound: new ethnographies of policing at #AAA2016
Organizers: Victor Kumar (Johns Hopkins U) and Amrita Ibrahim (Georgetown U) At a time when many aspects of law enforcement are coming under increased scrutiny, anthropologists have a renewed…