Saurabh Dube. Post/de/colonial.
This is an actual event – by which I mean an important discussion that makes important moves, negotiates languages and ambiguities of …
Writing Life No. 10: An interview with Sebastjan Vörös by Mareike Smolka
Figure 1: Sebastjan’s philosophy notebook and writing space in Ljubljana, Slovenia “Curiously, our letters turned out to be not a mere sum …
Letters
Die Komödie des Despotismus, die mit uns aufgeführt wird … Der Staat ist ein zu ernstes Ding, um zu einer Harlekinade gemacht …
Sensing the Translation: Language and Medico-Legal Enactments of Expertise in Occupational Diseases Lawsuits in Turkey
When: 12 February 2021 / 2-3.30 pm CET Link: https://zoom.us/j/93210372616pwd=dTZZ… ID: 93210372616 Password: 4JzWZ6 Abstract This paper examines how expert witness …
Ryazanov
Writing to a friend I fell down the Stalin rabbit-hole. It started off reasonably for a sunday evening, thinking, because of some …
Reading/Translating Capital Yet Again
Historical Materialists presents a webinar on: “Reading/Translating Capital Yet Again” Speaker: John Hutnyk Faculty, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam Moderator: Abhijit RoyFaculty, …
FLP: Announcing the upcoming release of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong Vol. IX – Redspark
https://www.redspark.nu/en/theory/flp-announcing-the-upcoming-release-of-the-selected-works-of-mao-zedong-vol-ix/ This is how to do an announcement!. It is well worth reading for both what it says abo…
I Suddenly Thought of Your Face
[Bricoleur is the pen name of an anthropologist and blogger who also goes by the pseudonym, Ma De-wa. A frequent contributor to …
Domesday’s eastern roots.
It seems like that old “goodness gracious me” sketch about the funny uncle that was claiming everything in Britain was ‘Indian’ was, …
Symbolic confusion and how to flirt with emoji 💋😕
A couple of years ago, I started flirting with people online. Pretty much everyone. In nearly every conversation. I didn’t mean to, …
The model for teaching at TDTU – in collaboration with Đỗ Thị Xuân Hương and Võ Nguyễn Thiện Phúc
A somewhat random video made to explain a model of teaching for a class on Capital and Anthropology/Mapping at Ton Duc Thang …
Going Native…In Other Words
The “Going Native” cartoon for this issue of Anthropology News was an exercise in celebration of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, …
Language Lessons
A documentary film shows the challenges faced by Soli children as they learn in a language that is not their own. But …
Inmaculada García-Sánchez on her Annual Review article
Kids in the middle Recognizing the important role of children as cultural translators By Kendall Powell 04.02.2019 Originally published: https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2019/kids-mid…
Feature Essay: The Case of Brexit, Expertise and Linguaphobia: Cosmopolitanism, Language and the Politics of Value by Sarah Burton
In this feature essay, The Case of Brexit, Expertise and Linguaphobia: Cosmopolitanism, Language and the Politics of Value, Sarah Burton argues that the heightened …
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Language politics and the French “Master” degree
I’m planning on writing more about French higher education policy in the next few years, since even after my dissertation there’s a …
Dijon vous craignez
I’ve been working on a paper about the failure of left-wing internationalism at the “European counter-summits” (at least the two that I was …
From self-identified ‘Turkish migrants’ to ‘Kurdish Diaspora’ in London #newtonloss
Loss and its relationship to translation and incommensurability have been central features of my work. My interdisciplinary PhD (Social and Political Thought, …
He doesn’t hold back his criticism
I was looking at one of my interviews with philosophy professors and was struck by this little explanation of why he had not picked …
Introduction: “Translating Vitalities: Spacecraft(ing)” by Judith Farquhar
Medical practice treats the body as an active field. Growth, pathology, healing, immune response, digestion, atrophy, arousal, pain, panic – none of …
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated …
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated …
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated …
Guava Anthropology Meets Savage Minds
Language choice can be an issue of access. In attempt to shorten some of the gaps, but mostly to highlight some of …