The Incurable-Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts by Tarek Elhaik Edinburgh University Press, 2016, 198 pages Tarek Elhaik’s first book—an …
In Benoît Peeters’ biography of Jacques Derrida, there is an intriguing interview with Derrida that was never published. Peeters writes: In 1992, …
The short version of this post: Philosophers have practically no lab infrastructure. The long version: Coming back to my research about philosophy departments in …
Boundary Biǎo 表 Interiorization (Inclusion) The Fold Emptiness Pathway Tōng 通 Media/Medium Resonance Excess Immunity/Community 1. Boundary Boundary is such a common-sense concept …
November 5 & 6, 2015 – Conference Program and Videos The two-day conference ‘Comment penser l’anthropocène?’ (‘How to think the Anthropocene?’) at …
Petition diversifying Philosophy By Georgette Veerhuis A month ago on Thursday 21 January 2016 I attended the symposium Diversify Philosophy at the …
Anand Pandian’s Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation is a fascinating and truly inspired inquiry into questions of experience and the …
The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) is a program run by The New School for Social Research for the second time …
What follows is a series of conversations conducted after the recent Image as Method symposium, which took place on May 4th and …
Biosocial Becomings: Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology Cambridge University Press, 2013, 288 pages. This essay originally appeared in Portuguese in the journal …
I came across a confrontational moment in one of my interview transcripts. We had been talking about philosophers’ metanarratives about “truth.” But my interlocutor …
When I first encountered Lévi-Strauss in graduate school, I thought the title of his monumental work sounded strange. At that time, …
Now this is an article that is going to upset a lot of people but at the same time it will cause …
This is nineteenth post in the Freedom technologists series. Republished from St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. The Centre is pleased to …
Once having arrived at a set (or sets) of defensible moral positions, social psychologists should better be able to educate those outside …
Instagram is a social, mobile photography app. They have 100 million monthly active users, and 40 million Instagram photos are posted per …
Please see also Part 1 and Part 2. PART 3: NGOs AND DIGITAL RIGHTS In the last section I considered the roles …
Please see the first part of this project here. PART 2: NETWORK NEUTRALITY In my last post I described the centralized control …
We traditionally understand the world to be controlled primarily by technologies of violence and destruction. Who controls these technologies and how they …
The past few posts I have written all belong to a collection of case studies about new media practices and the 2012 …
In the lengthy and involved media spectacle surrounding the 2012 elections, the day of reckoning is of course voting day. Traditionally, media …
Twitter and the 2012 Elections: Media Practice and Politics Whereas Facebook is a platform that treats politics as more or less taboo, …
Since its beginning, the Internet’s potential to disseminate information broadly and easily has been hailed as a great democratizing force. Today, this …
Media practice and the 2012 elections: Theorizing new models of democratic participation This case study is named after a hashtag that was trending …