Dumbwaiters and Smartphones: The Responsibility of Intelligence
“I don’t have to drink alone,” she paused for comedic effect, “now that I have Alexa.” Thus was the punchline of a story told by a widowed octogenarian…
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Out-of-Body Workspaces: Andy Serkis and Motion Capture Technologies
Upper image, production shot of live action actor James Franco (Left) and Andy Serkis, with digital character superimposed (Right). Lower image, the finished shot of live action and…
Critiquing Big Data in China and Beyond
“I do think that the Internet truly makes us feel the world can become a smaller place,” an interlocutor, whom I will call Bo, told me in his…
Voided Spaces: Architectural indices of ravines in Guatemala City
Photo by Jorge Villatoro: Ravine in Zone 3, Guatemala City Deep, canyon-like ravines fracture forty-two percent of Guatemala City. Covered in thick, wet, and dense foliage, these ravines…
Forecasting Earth Futures
This is the second in a series of posts by scholars who attended the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne, an event hosted in September by Deakin University as part of…
Of Camels, Platypuses, and the Future of the Blog
It has been said that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. We might think of the platypus in much the same way, though the key…
Beyond the Horizon available online
“Beyond the Horizon: Essays on Myth, History, Travel and Society”, originally published in 2008, is now available online at https://oa.finlit.fi/site/books/10.21435/sfa.2/ The book was edi…
The Sounds of STS: In conversation with Prof. Stefan Helmreich
I was first introduced to the work Stefan Helmreich, an anthropologist of science at MIT, as a first year PhD student. As an STS student, I’ve always been…
Interview with Angie Heo
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1117/Interview%20with%20Angie%20Heo.mp3 In the beginning of March 2018, Angie Heo gave a talk in our visiting se…
Melissa Demian: The gender of the minibus
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1104/Melissa%20Demian.MP3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. Melissa Demi…
Joel Robbins: Anthropology between Europe and the Pacific
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1099/Joel%20Robbins%20only%20talk.mp3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. …
Angie Heo: The Political Lives of Saints. Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt
On March 2, 2018 Angie Heo delivered a talk in our visiting seminar titled “The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt”. We later conducted a brief…
Susanne Brandtstädter: Rising Above the Ordinary: Justice, Virtue, and Normative Change in the Chinese Countryside
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1105/susanne%20Brandtsta%cc%88dter.mp3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio fil…
Matti Eräsaari: Value, measure and standard: time in the Helsinki Timebank
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1090/matti%20erasaari.MP3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. Matti Eräsaa…
Farha Ghannam: The Gender of Class: Taste and Social Inequalities in Urban Egypt
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1079/ghannam.mp3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. Farha Ghannam gave a …
Sirpa Tenhunen: Mobile Technology, mediation and social change in rural India
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1106/Sirpa%20Tenhunen.mp3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. Drawing from…
Laura Assmuth: Translocal life ways in the Nordic mobility space: towards a grounded transnationalism
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1071/assmuth.mp3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. Laura Assmuth (Univer…