Relationship Thinking
Nick Enfield — ethnolinguist at the Max Planck institute for psycholinguistics (and contributor to ICCI) — has published a new book, Relationship Thinking. Here’s the blurb from Oxford…
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This year’s Edge question
The new The Edge annual question, and the answers, are now online. The question was: “What scientific idea is ready for retirement?” Here are some answers that could…
Film “Entwicklungshilflos ?”
Ab heute findet ihr hier den von mir mitgestalteten Film “Entwicklungshilflos ?”, der Meinungen von acht Vertreter_innen des EZ-Diskurses in 30 Minuten präsentiert. Interviewt wurden u.a. …
Travels in the Congo: First Things First
So, I’ve been travelling and working in the Congo for about a month now and I already have an awful lot to write about – both the awesome…
Newspapers
So, after a long hiatus brought on partly by my web-host deleting my website and not keeping any back-ups (!), and partly by me being busy with work…
Africa Needs You!
I was disappointed to find, in a rare moment when I found myself watching live television the other day, this advertising campaign from VSO: Yes, that’s right viewer.…
Cracks in Everything
Philosophy is dead. At least, it is according to renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, who believes the discipline hasn’t kept up with modern developments in science to the extent…