What Klingon and Other Constructed Languages Reveal
At a Comic-Con, or comic book convention, in Los Angeles in 2010, the trolley signs were in Klingon. Doug Kline/The Pop Culture Geek Network/Flickr This article was originally…
The Noise of Russian Silence
By Ekaterina Thor, second-year Bachelor student of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Opening our daily news feed on the 24th of February, most of probably needed a second…
Resurrecting a wolf for conservation?
Many herders, especailly in the Sub-Arctic, are threatened by the increased number of wolves, eating entire reindeer herds. In Australia they go the opposite way now: they try…
Libertad para morir. En defensa de la sanidad pública
Read Time:5 Minute, 58 Second Estados Unidos es considerado uno de los países desarrollados más ricos del planeta, sin embargo, es …
On the Lives of Spiritually Fluid People
Dr. Duane Bidwell works to reduce suffering and promote abundant life in all of his teaching, writing, and research. Experiences as chaplain, pastor, spiritual director, pastoral counselor, HIV/AIDS…
Agustín Fuentes, “Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature” (Second Edition) (U California Press, 2022)
There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and women are wholly different in behavior, desires,…
Michael Heneise, “Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India: The Life and Landscapes of Dreams” (Routledge, 2018)
The Nagas of Northeast India gives great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although British colonialism, Christian missions, and political conflict…
Jonathan Crary, “Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World” (Verso, 2022)
In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our ‘digital age’ is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation…
Digitale Ortlosigkeit. Über die Politik des Metaverse
Was in der Welt des Digitalen spielerisch daherkommt, greift tief in die Wirklichkeit – und bestimmt selbst militärische Operationen. Ein Streifzug durch die digitalen Räume und ihre wachsende…
Ida Susser: Melenchon: the creation of a left political bloc
On June 19, 2022, the united left party, NUPES (New Ecological and Social Popular Union), cobbled together by Jean-Luc Melenchon in less than two months, won enough seats…
Global shipping
sometimes these maps are so pro-capital its embarrassing. This one is of course, but its also informative. Here are the paths of need and greed, crime and time…
Perception test. Who can…?
I approached the bookseller to ask for 50% discount on this book because of its major flaw. Can you see it? Would you pay full price for this,…
Not yet lit Stalin
I’ve not yet lit the Stalin candle. #trinketization
Captain Cook chased a chook…
… all around Australia, he lost his pants in the middle of France and found them in Tasmania. Or: Captain Cook rode a chook down the Murray River.…
Forschung jenseits der Uni – mit einem Start-Up und einem Verein für Informationswissenschaft
Photo von Ezi auf unsplash.com Dr. Violeta Trkulja forscht und arbeitet als Informationswissenschaftlerin und Vorständin bei der gemeinnützigen Organisation, Grenzenlos Digital e. V., die …
¿Qué nos depara el futuro? Nos dirigimos hacia un futuro incierto
Read Time:8 Minute, 24 Second Que el cambio climático es un hecho, nadie lo duda. A lo largo de la Historia de nuestro planeta, los…
Mark Fathi Massoud, “Shari’a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as antagonistic, even antithetical, to the rule of law. Mark Fathi Massoud tells a different story: for nearly 150 years, the…
300 Stellenbörsen…
Der Brotgelehrte-Blog feiert sein zehnjähriges Jubiläum – und dazu gehören Festattribute, z.B.: 300 Stellenbörsen mit Jobs von und für Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaftler*innen …
If Santa Claus’ reindeer can fly, what about other reindeer?
It was more than ten years ago during our first visit to Santa Claus village – a tourist attraction in Rovaniemi in the north of Finland. My 6-year-old daughter asked…
Baird Campbell takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation falls in the middle of the second chapter, “Historia: Social Media as a Tool for Counter-Memory.” Each chapter takes a salient concept from…
Stop Projecting Nationalism Onto Stonehenge
In late May, eight images of the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II were projected onto the megaliths of Stonehenge to celebrate the monarch’s 70 years on the throne.…
Stop Projecting Nationalism Onto Stonehenge
English Heritage beamed eight portraits of Queen Elizabeth II onto Stonehenge, sparking controversy among archaeologists and the general public. Raj Valley/Alamy In late May, eight images…
Writing the “perfect” application letter for our MA in Communication for Development–insights from the first 2000 letters
As part of our application process for our MA in Communication for Development program we encourage applicants to submit a short application letter together with all the other…
پنجشنبههای پرسش و پاسخ، جلسۀ چهل و ششم: دشواریهای راه ایرانی و بازگشت به خود جامعه
جلسه چهل و ششم مؤسسۀ انسان شناسی و فرهنگ دربارۀ « دشواریهای راه ایرانی و بازگشت به خود جامعه » با حضور آقای دکتر مقصود فراستخواه (جامعهشناس، استاد…