Web Roundup: Marching for Science, which is what, exactly? by Lily Shapiro
Many of you may have marched (or chosen not to march) at last week’s March for Science. I marched with my partner and young son here in Coimbatore,…
Many of you may have marched (or chosen not to march) at last week’s March for Science. I marched with my partner and young son here in Coimbatore,…
In her book, Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity (Melbourne University Press, 2017), Rebe Taylor, the Coral Thomas Fellow at the State Library of…
This is the presentation I gave at Streaming Television and Second Screening Workshop at Boston University. TV: new rules, new viewers, new challenges from Grant McCracken
Hot off the press! Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff just came out on MIT Press. I have a piece on dirty dollars as art…
Pulling up to a parking spot and finding a shopping cart there can be pretty frustrating. Why do people ignore the receptacle? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Thanks Kaloy Cunanan for recovering this from ascii-land. An article on the multi-function polis in Malaysia, from 1999 Hutnyk 1999 Semifeudal Cybercolonialism Technocratic Dreamtime in Malaysia appea…
In this class, we have discussed preparation for death in multiple instances. In “The Undertaking” a couple prepares for the death of their child and elderly plan their…
This is a clip of an interview of Kaelin Vernon of “Peacefield Farms” with Sam Ford, Grant McCracken and Josh Poling acting as interviewers. The interview was conducted…
With health policy debates in the US ongoing, AN invites proposals for feature articles, commentary, photo essays and other media that shed an anthropological light on health and…
Modern science is full of surprising analytical techniques that can be used in a wide variety of remarkable circumstances. My favorite technique is dendrochronology—the study of “tree time.”…
Chip Colwell. Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture. 336pp., 10 halftones, notes, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. $30 (cloth),…
Hi all, Another good week for #globaldev debates! Development news: Special section on the aid industry in contemporary America kicks of this review; sweatshops & industrialization in Ethiopia;…
Hi all, Another good week for #globaldev debates! Development news: Special section on the aid industry in contemporary America kicks of this review; sweatshops & industrialization in Ethiopia;…
What is the role of software in planned obsolescence and waste? It may play a greater role than hardware…
This is our end-of-project blogpost, after five years of our ERC-funded project Why We Post. So, what has been achieved? 1) In the light of a comparative study…
It’s EVENTS’ time again!! From England, to The Netherlands, to Portugal, and all the way to Australia with a stop in Houston to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of…
Rethinking taste. By confronting natural and human sciences this symposium raises new questions about taste. We invite the audience to wonder with us: How are the connections between…
What does the future hold for Cubans who came of age with the revolutionary state? On November 25, 2016, Fidel Castro Ruz passed away. As Cuba’s Commander-in-Chief from…
Fibonacci Blue, CC BY 2.0 Early in April the faculty at Indiana University had a heated email discussion about Charles Murray’s visit to our campus. The co-author of…
If Noam Chomsky had done nothing else, he would have given us one of the strongest critique of the New York Times as the guarantor of nationalist ideology for the U.S.’s…
One: Whither The Subject? It has been exactly 8 years since I wrote the introductory installment of a mini-series on political subjectivity for Somatosphere. When I wrote on…