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Black mirror is a popular Netflix original anthological series that examines the dark aspects of modern society with countless casts and stories, from political satires to future dystopias.…
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Gruesome TV: dumb culture returns?
The thing that strikes you about The Frankenstein Chronicles is how gruesome it is. This was true too of The Alienist. In both cases, the series begins with…
The Three Faces
Since taking a course on The Philosophy of Religion with Dr. Wendy Farley, I have developed an interest in studying death and suffering. Naturally, I began to pay…
CAOS SUPPORTS ACTIVITIES IN BRAZILIAN INDIGENOUS LANDS
Carolina Schneider Comandulli Extreme Citizen Science Research Group University College London The Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability has been supporting the project “Environme…
LSE Festival Beveridge 2.0 Preview: The Five Giants by Nicholas Timmins
75 years after the publication of the Beveridge report, LSE Festival Beveridge 2.0 (Mon 19 Feb – Sat 24 Feb 2018) offers a week of public engagement activities exploring the ‘Five Giants’…
Craft fatigue / Artisanal exhaustion?
One of the things we are watching at Culturematic HQ is whether the artisanal theme is beginning to run out of steam. Leo Burnett London offers us this…
Fame, femininity, financial vitriol: a methodology of Kommercial success
by Mac Spencer We begin at one of this century’s most infamous ascents to celebrity status, which I assume needs little retelling. In 2007, a leaked sex tape…
Lonely Deaths
Source:https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sLNXt9DmC_U/hqdefault.jpg I was on snapchat, after the horrid update, and I went to the discovery section because it was too frustrating to figure out the actual snapch…
Falling in Love with Anthropology
Each year we kick off our Anthropology Day celebration by asking individuals from across the field to share how they fell in love with anthropology. This year’s post…
Business is Booming for Business Anthropology
This post was submitted by Robert J. Morais and Elizabeth K. Briody. In 2011, Florida Governor Rick Scott disparaged the return-on-investment (ROI) of an anthropology degree: “We don’t…
Is A Dystopian Consumer Future Already Here?
This blog post is actually an announcement….I’ve started a new chapter and a new blog, and I am calling it “Consuming Culture”. Here is a sneak peak with…
Ep. #7 The knowledge we value: Dipesh Chakrabarty talks the contentious politics of knowledge production
“Doing history ideally is like doing anthropology of people who are gone, except that you don’t have native informants, you only have these written fragmentary sources. But the…
A History of Poppies, War, and Death
Source: http://wellcomeimages.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?MIROPAC=N0021523 The opium poppy, effortlessly sprouting across several continents, has captured the attention of humankind for thousands of years…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXIV
Here are my latest articles and interviews: After a year of Trump, women expect less from men — but demand more (1/22/18) — Globe and Mail Trump’s first State…
What Can Anthropology Tell us about Data in the 21st Century?
Last week I wrote a comment piece for the Corsham Institute’s Observatory for a Connected Society app asking ‘What can Anthropology tell us about data in the 21st…
The Remarkable Paradox of Militant Christians
This post was submitted by Alice Beck Kehoe, professor of anthropology, emerita, at Marquette University. Steve Bannon, Breitbart News. Standoff of a man, his sons and fellows against encroachment…
How Canadian bureaucrats make state territory in the name of ‘restoring’ Indigenous rights
I’m quite happy that some recent work of mine is now out in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.[very happy to send copies to anybody with…
Culture when it takes us captive
[This post was originally published on Medium.] Every organization operates out of an idea of itself. (We call this idea several things: our “business model,” our “value proposition,”…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, part XXIII
Here are my articles and interviews from the past week: Trump’s racism is more than rhetoric — it forms policies and ruins lives (1/13/18) — Globe and Mail The…
On tricking ducks: Industrial naturecultures and the toxic bodies of oil sands country
Whitney Larrat-Smith, UC Davis § “We were walking for a long time before I saw it. It was an exceptionally hot day in July for Northern Alberta, intensified by…