SETI: Signs in space/ Enacting space
[From the SETI project, “A Sign in Space” (https://asignin.space/)] “To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world — in order to set up a shadow world of…
[From the SETI project, “A Sign in Space” (https://asignin.space/)] “To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world — in order to set up a shadow world of…
How do mental illnesses sound? What are the stakes of using machines to render the signs of psychiatric suffering audible? These questions drive the teams of psychiatric and…
A couple of years ago, I started flirting with people online. Pretty much everyone. In nearly every conversation. I didn’t mean to, and I didn’t start it. But…
Someone in one of the my email lists was asking about the history of semiotics in anthropology, and that made me realise that I didn’t know very much…
With this entry, we are closing the series of interviews on Design Anthropology that we have published this year 2018 on the occasion of Why the world needs…
I recently spent an extended time in Tartu, Estonia. I had the wonderful opportunity to be a Fulbright Specialist visiting the Departments of: (1) Estonian and Comparative Folklore,…
A special issue of the journal Visual Anthropology brings together seven scholars exploring visual aspects of political contestation in the Middle East, especially the Arab Spring. The issue …
Domesticating Organ Transplant: Family Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico Megan Crowley-Matoka Duke University Press, 2016, 336 pages In Domesticating Organ Transplant: Family Sacrifi…
A physical copy of the brand new book Digital Keywords (2016) has just arrived through the post. On first inspection, it looks fantastic, and I’ve got the feeling…
Challenges to authoritarian states’ control of language can be so complex that they exceed the states’ ability to manage them all. Electronic expression of resistance and increasi…
Interesting talk by UCL Material Culture masters grad Sam Barton who is works at commercial semiotics company Added Value yesterday at the UCL #anthropology department. He ran through t…
Interesting talk by UCL Material Culture masters grad Sam Barton who is works at commercial semiotics company Added Value yesterday at the UCL #anthropology department. He ran through t…
Interesting talk by UCL Material Culture masters grad Sam Barton who is works at commercial semiotics company Added Value yesterday at the UCL #anthropology department. He ran through t…
Interesting talk by UCL Material Culture masters grad Sam Barton who is works at commercial semiotics company Added Value yesterday at the UCL #anthropology department. He ran through t…