Who benefits from the ‘internet space race’?
In the film Elysium, the ultra-rich have left an apocalyptic Earth ravaged by global warming and overpopulation. Their utopian colony orbits high above Earth which festers below. Science…
#REVIEW: Food Between the Country and the City
I welcomed the opportunity to see how scholars of food studies would make use of one of my take-to-the-desert-island favorite books, Raymond Williams’The Country and the City. Williams…
Field Notes: This data collection is interfering with my dancing.
The following is a selection of some of the more entertaining notes from my first official field research night. (The last post was a preliminary getting-a-feel-for-things outing.) I…
Calling all Anthropology Students!
The cover of Volume 1 Issue 1, the first issue of Anthropozine. Anthropology students, let your voice be heard! Anthropology Now wants to publish your work in its…
Spreading Alerts in Egypt and Elsewhere
When people keep getting warnings but nothing ever happens… they just start ignoring them. One of the interesting things about living as an expatriate in Egypt and India…
Irina Sirotkina’s Shestoe chuvstvo avangarda: Tanets, dvizhenie, kinesteziia v zhizni poetov i khudozhnikov by Michael Gordin
Shestoe chuvstvo avangarda: Tanets, dvizhenie, kinesteziia v zhizni poetov i khudozhnikov By Irina Sirotkina Izd. Evropeiskogo universiteta v Sankt-Peterburge, 2014, 280 pages There are few topics i…
A book of unfinished theories 2015-06-17 11:24:00
I’m no longer updating this blog. But please look at these new works by me that deal with Egypt in the time of revolution and counter-revolution: – Buy…
A book of unfinished theories 2015-06-17 10:24:00
I’m no longer updating this blog. But please look at these new works by me that deal with Egypt in the time of revolution and counter-revolution: – Buy…
REDUX: Going Native at Home – Explorations in Method- and note-ology #FIELDWORK
I’m from here. Well, sort of. When I was 18 months old, we moved to this small town on the Connecticut River, in the shadow of Mt. Ascutney.…
Defeating Da’ash
Check out the blog post by Eric Davis of Rutgers University on the need to take out Da’ash now.
Thinking about race like a cataloger
In librarian parlance entities, whether books or journal articles or whatever, can be said to have an “aboutness.” And as a cataloger its my job to describe that…
On Cameron Crowe’s Aloha and Indigenous Pacific Films We Actually Recommend
Still from Living Along the Fenceline (2011), directors Lina Hoshino & Gwyn Kirk By Hinemoana of Turtle Island: Lani Teves, Liza Keanuenueokalani Williams, Maile Arvin, Fuifuilupe Niumetol…
Linguistic Challenges to China’s Centralizing Control
Challenges to authoritarian states’ control of language can be so complex that they exceed the states’ ability to manage them all. Electronic expression of resistance and increasi…
Job Search: Professor of Photographic History, De Montfort University
Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities On the retirement of Professor Elizabeth Edwards, applications are invited for the full-time, permanent post of Professor of Photographic History, based within…
Reckonings: Participant-Observation from a Distance
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Sienna Craig. I am going to use this space as a Savage Minds guest to sort through some of the images, questions, and…
The Limits of the Virtuoso
Via @jbouie Pierre Bourdieu, in his famous critique of structuralism from Outline of a Theory of Practice, says: only a virtuoso with a perfect command of his “art…
My Airbnb home is my market
Where better to carry out an interview about Airbnb than in the lobby of a hotel? Sarah* and I met a couple of weeks after I posted my…
What’s our conclusion? Introducing ‘scalable sociality’
Scalable Sociality Right now we are finishing the last of our eleven volumes from this project, a book which will be called How the World Changed Social Media.…
#Review: Every Twelve Seconds. Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
Long-term vegetarian (and member of The Beatles) Paul McCartney famously observed that if slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all become vegetarians. Part of the motivation behind Timothy…
After knocking: Picturing youth itineraries
Look at me and explain „who do you want to be in ten years?”. „I want to be a famous professor, living abroad. I want to publish a…
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography
When scholars attract widespread public attention the news coverage about them and their works, which is often incomplete and filled with misconceptions, is not usually good.