The Impoverishment of the COVID Future
From Wikimedia Commons As I complete this essay, the quarantine imposed on Baltimore stretches into its second month, and I continue …
Work Out of Joint: Our Future Lives With Robots and Intelligent Agents
Wired magazine – mostly hagiographies of silicon valley entrepreneurs – capitalist porn – vague reassurances for the future from the uber-wealthy. 500 …
Speculative Anthropology Series in Cultural Anthropology
Please check out this provocative collection of papers at cultural anthropology. Edited by Ryan Anderson, Emma Louise Backe, Taylor Nelms, Elizabeth Reddy …
Is A Dystopian Consumer Future Already Here?
This blog post is actually an announcement….I’ve started a new chapter and a new blog, and I am calling it “Consuming Culture”. …
National Science Fiction Day — 1/2/2018
On this day devoted (by some) to a genre fiction, my thoughts have turned to dystopia and utopia–these are not, however, co-extensive …
Tracking the Future at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
–> (the Wow! signal, visualized by Benjamin Crowell, from Wikimedia) In a few days, many anthropologists will attend the American Anthropological Association …
Call for Papers–Worlds of Resistance: Dystopia and Heterotopia in Fiction and Reality
We find ourselves in a period of worlding and otherworlding, of recognizing that the microcosms in which we operated were not simply …
berners-lee on snowden
It’s been almost eight years that I ↵last quoted ↑Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, here at xirdalium. On 1st …