Talk delivered at EGA (Entheogenesis Australis) 2014, RMIT, Melbourne. Abstract: Images saturate our consciousness today. With the advent of photography, television, the personal computer and the Inte…
Diesen Text als PDF herunterladen Von Geistern und Modernen Anthropology, more than any other scholarly discourse on magic, was responsible for the interpretation of magic as an antithesis…
Table of contents with abstracts, etc. is here. Introduction Anna M. Michalak, Christopher B. Field Daedalus Summer 2015, Vol. 144, No. 3: 5–6. Abstract | PDF (63 KB)…
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the task of writing a literature review? Frustrated by your students…
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…
Why do new economic imaginaries need to take up waste as a central issue? What do novel, non-capitalist economies mean for concepts and materialities of waste?
I can say without reservation or qualification that the Speaking Our Minds (SOM) book club was the single most challenging and rewarding intellectual experience of my career to…
Are you about to complete your PhD and want to do something other than become an adjunct? Or are you perhaps safely tenured but want to make a…
This case is a story that a soldier told me. I call her Kelly, and she said it was “the craziest story I was gonna get” from her.…
When I tweeted this picture from the ADB’s 7th International Policy Advisory Group meeting yesterday, I did not anticipate that it quickly became one of my most re-tweeted…
Apparently it’s National Tell a Joke Day… earlier this week I got to check out a satirical play about electoral politics here in Guatemala called Mi Candidato…
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
Putting 20,000 black plastic balls in water after people have been warned against throwing plastic into waterways has sparked a number of questions. Our plastic expert talks about…
By Sean Carey Remember when your mother or other responsible adult told you as a small child to tie your shoelaces so you would not trip and fall?…
I lived in New York City for a few short-but-long-enough years in the “early 2000s”. My renovated-but-still-affordable apartment was on (as we told my girlfriend’s conservative subu…
A Facebook announcement from an online shop in northern Chile announces “Jackets, Vests, and Sweatshirts” Ebay, Etsy, Alibaba, and Taobao have changed the way many people around the…