Invest your emotion elsewhere
People tend to call me a rationalist, and that's not really something I have a problem with. I don't think philosophical ideas should be a matter of identity…
Tag: politics
The Kids are more than all right
Both are seventeen. They are too young to vote in places like the US. But we need more of them! Malala! All around the world people know this…
The Return of the Colonial
What logic connects Ferguson, Gaza and east Port of Spain? What cultural logics connect recent confrontations in Ferguson, Gaza, and east Port of Spain? The short answer is…
Jared Diamond and Future Public Anthropology
It was an honor and pleasure to be discussant for Margaret Mead and Jared Diamond: Past Publics, Current Engagements, organized by Alex Golub for the 2013 American Anthropological…
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 August 2006 I republished the following…
Keti Koti 2014 – Celebration, Protest, Commemoration
“The chains are cut” (Keti Koti in Surinamese – Sranantongo) is the Emancipation Day, in which the end of slavery in Suriname is remembered (legally 1963, de facto…
Keti Koti 2014 – Celebration, Protest, Commemoration
“The chains are cut” (Keti Koti in Surinamese – Sranantongo) is the Emancipation Day, in which the end of slavery in Suriname is remembered (legally 1963, de facto…
Keti Koti 2014 – Celebration, Protest, Commemoration
“The chains are cut” (Keti Koti in Surinamese – Sranantongo) is the Emancipation Day, in which the end of slavery in Suriname is remembered (legally 1963, de facto…
Keti Koti 2014 – Celebration, Protest, Commemoration
“The chains are cut” (Keti Koti in Surinamese – Sranantongo) is the Emancipation Day, in which the end of slavery in Suriname is remembered (legally 1963, de facto…
Squeaky Dolphin
From an article about the anxieties of big data by Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford. 2014 is the year we learned about Squeaky Dolphin. That’s the Pynchon-worthy code name…
Britain is a ‘Christian Country’, apparently
David Cameron has recently claimed that the UK is a 'Christian country' and has said that he will act as a 'giant Dyno-Rod' for Christian organisations here (implicitly…
Walling Roma in
The “Roma wall” Wikipedia page accounts for the apparently growing governance practice of walling Romani households in (or out). The page presents cases in Czech Republic, Romania and…
Walling Roma in
The “Roma wall” Wikipedia page accounts for the apparently growing governance practice of walling Romani households in (or out). The page presents cases in Czech Republic, Romania and…
Walling Roma in
The “Roma wall” Wikipedia page accounts for the apparently growing governance practice of walling Romani households in (or out). The page presents cases in Czech Republic, Romania and…
Walling Roma in
The “Roma wall” Wikipedia page accounts for the apparently growing governance practice of walling Romani households in (or out). The page presents cases in Czech Republic, Romania and…
Bam! Pow! Join TaL for a discussion on the world Comic Books and Graphic Novels! 1pm wbrs.org
Join your faithful hosts Ryan and Adam for this week’s episode of This Anthropological Life: a journey into the world of comic books and graphic novels. Inspired by…
For a reflexive sociology of "nomadness"
When back in the early 1990s Loic Wacquant and Pierre Bourdieu chatted about the nature of Sociology, they digged out – and discussed at lenght – probably the…
For a reflexive sociology of "nomadness"
When back in the early 1990s Loic Wacquant and Pierre Bourdieu chatted about the nature of Sociology, they digged out – and discussed at lenght – probably the…
For a reflexive sociology of "nomadness"
When back in the early 1990s Loic Wacquant and Pierre Bourdieu chatted about the nature of Sociology, they digged out – and discussed at lenght – probably the…
For a reflexive sociology of "nomadness"
When back in the early 1990s Loic Wacquant and Pierre Bourdieu chatted about the nature of Sociology, they digged out – and discussed at lenght – probably the…
‘HBD’
There is a small but rather vocal group of people variously associated with the human sciences who declare that almost everything humans do is related to and primarily…
Anthropology Blogs 2014
Update 2015: This is the archive page for 2014 Anthropology Blogs. Click Anthropology Blogs 2015 for a current list and see also the Anthropology Blogs 2013 and 2012…
Modernity isn’t philosophical
Here’s a tidbit from before Sarkozy was President that gives a certain sense of how his administration was likely to regard philosophy, and the humanities in general: «…
The origins of the spatial segregation of Roma in contemporary Italy
[Qui in Italiano] Why do nomad camps exist? One of this blog’s initial goals was to account for my 2007-2008 ethnography of nomad camps in Florence. In fact,…