A Sandbox for a Specific Type of Narcissist – Clubhouse, the Allure of Live Audio and Dangerous Rabbit Holes
A nasal voice is rambling on in a long monologue about how to best pitch a startup on Clubhouse when I log on sometime in March. It is…
Entrepreneurship and Technologies
Everyone is an entrepreneur – a new ethos is sweeping through our economic world. While the promises of ‘being your own boss’ and ‘deciding about your working hours’…
Próximo número: 3 de Mayo de 2021
No te lo puedes perder La entrada Próximo número: 3 de Mayo de 2021 aparece primero en anthropologies.
Can the Holy Spirit Be Livestreamed?
A pastor reaches out to his global congregants online to emphasize the importance of pandemic lockdowns. Pastor Samuel K Majok—Online Ministry Every Sunday, during her fieldwork, Cristina…
What a comedian in blackface says about German media, prevailing racism & ignoring colonial histories
It all started with a Tweet… German public broadcaster from Bavaria aired a comedian who impersonated an African dictator (including blackface/white gloves) to “satirically” address recent cases of…
In the Journals – Militarization
Officers wearing a traditional late 1960s uniform (left) and a new demilitarized uniform featuring a blazer (right), Riverside County Sheriff, 1969 by Stuart Schrader via Journal of Urban…
Maurice Rafael Magaña, “Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico” (U California Press, 2020)
In Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico (U California Press, 2020), based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaña considers how urban a… Visit…
Jason Manning, “Suicide: The Social Causes of Self-Destruction” (U Virginia Press, 2020)
The conventional approach to suicide is psychiatric: ask the average person why people kill themselves, and they will likely cite depression. But this approach fails to recognize suicide’s…
فاشیسم بیولوژیک در فاشیسم ادبی با نگاهی به رمان اسرار
رمان اسرار نوشتهی نویسنده، شاعر، رماننویس و برندهی جایزهی نوبل نروژی، کنوت هامسون است. هامسون در میان دو جنگ جهانی به فاشیسم آلمان گرایش داشت و زمانی که…
Jack Glazier, “Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race” (MSU Press, 2020)
Paul Radin was one of the founding generation of American cultural anthropologists: A student of Franz Boas, and famed ethnographer of the Winnebago. Yet little is known about Radin’s life. A leftist…
Cultivating a Destination’s Band of Brothers
A 2017 Destinations International (DI) policy brief states, “The devotion of members is the biggest asset to any advocacy organization, even more so than funding”. This assertion rings…
Cultivating a Destination’s Band of Brothers
A 2017 Destinations International (DI) policy brief states, “The devotion of members is the biggest asset to any advocacy organization, even more so than funding”. This assertion rings…
GPT-Neo: An open source alternative to GPT-3
Access to GPT-3 remains limited, but “EleutherAI,” a “grassroots collective of researchers working to open source AI research,” has released GPT-Neo: GPT-Neo is the code …
گذار به مردمسالاری
بررسی موضوع گذار به دموکراسی از چشماندازهای نظری گوناگون از مهمترین مباحث در جامعهشناسی سیاسی معاصر است.با افزایش تعداد دموکراسی ها در ربع آخر قرن بیستم در سراسر…
آلبوم کودکان عصر قاجار را با «کتاب کودکی» ورق بزنید
معرفی کتابِ «کتاب کودکی» اطلاعات کتابشناختی: کتاب کودکی از مجموعه میراث تصویری، مهرداد اسکویی با همکاری سمیه امیری و مقدمه دکتر ناصر فکوهی، ۱۳۹۹، چاپ اول: تهران: نشر…
سفرنامه جنوب هند (۱۷)
خورش گیاهی سمبر سوار ریکشا شدم و باز هم کنار پنجره نشستم به جز من و یک مرد روستایی دیگر کسی در ریکشا نبود به ترمینال هیندوپور…
A Brief Lindbergh Update
One of my more popular posts of late has been The Fall and Rise of Lindbergh: A Javelina Story. In that post, I tell the story of a…
Alex Dent discusses Digital Pirates
Interview by Ilana Gershon Digital Pirates: Policing Intellectual Property in Brazil Ilana Gershon: At the heart of this book is the intellectually productive argument that intellectual pro…
Kaleidoscope of truth
Sandhya I. Fuchs (LSE and University of Bern) will talk about “Kaleidoscope of truth: Legal fictions, real cases and controversial proof in the production of the Prevention of…
Juned Shaikh, “Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor” (U Washington Press, 2021)
What is the history of caste in a city? Indian modernizers assumed that the various processes of modernity, including industrial capitalism, would attenuate caste and create the possibility…
Neu: Workbook Digitalisierung
Endlich lieferbar: Brotgelehrte Workbook 3: Schwerpunkt Digitalisierung und Laufbahnplanung für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen Wir freuen uns sehr, dass das neue Workbook nun erschienen ist. …
James S. J. Schwartz, “The Value of Science in Space Exploration” (Oxford UP, 2020)
The Value of Science in Space Exploration (Oxford UP, 2020) provides a rigorous assessment of the value of scientific knowledge and understanding in the context of contemporary space explorat……
Vortrag „Alles bleibt anders – Politiken und Praktiken für das Wohnen in einer sozial nachhaltigen Stadt“ von Marie Glaser
Theorien, Politiken und Praktiken des Wohnens: Interdisziplinäre Überlegungen zum Wohnen Institutskolloquium WiSe 2020/21 In the context of our research colloquium “Housing theory, housin…
Frohe Ostern!
Der Beitrag Frohe Ostern! erschien zuerst auf Brotgelehrte.