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Winter/Spring Journal Round-Up
American Anthropologist Interspecies Semiotics and the Specter of Taboo: The Perception and Interpretation of Dogs and Rabies in Bali,Indonesia Yancey Orr The anthropological fields of ethnobiology and…
34. In search of psychedelia: for a technopolitics beyond institutions
This is the thirty-fourth post in the freedom technologists series This past March 2016 I spent three weeks in Lima (Peru), as well as a few days in…
Trump protests and media exploitation
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about anti-Trump protests and the potential danger of cable news exploitation as they become increasingly violent. An excerpt: Mr. Trump’s seeming…
Flight 1095
Coming home from Phoenix on Friday, I found myself sharing the plane with Aidy Bryant, Vanessa Bayer, and Bret Stephens. Bryant and Bayer are SNL players. Stephens (below) is Foreign…
Collaborative PhD Studentship – Workplace Design in the Digital Age
UCL Department Anthropology Project Workplace Design in the Digital Age Duration of studentship 3.5 years (to start 01 Oc…
Adulting: Because Being a Grownup Should Only Be a Temporary Affliction
I remember being a kid trying to figure out what set adults apart from the rest of the masses of “watery moles” (Thanks, Florence King, for that reference…
What’s Fueling “The Bern?” The Secret Every Marketer Should Know
Yet another view into the world of a “professional” narcissistic anthropologist at work. Posted this morning on the company site / linkedin. On a side note, I was…
Tactics of Power and Empowerment in Knowledge-Making Infrastructures
By Kirk Jalbert, Manager of Community Based Research & Engagement, FracTracker Alliance and Visiting Research Professor, Center for Science, Technology and Society, Drexel University § Energy extr…
33. Iñigo Errejón: Podemos as an emergent cultural practice
Photo credit: ca.wikipedia.org This is the thirty-third post in the freedom technologists series I have pasted below some highlights (in Spanish) of an excellent interview with Podemos’ ‘…
Is there an Ontology to the Digital
On another digital note, I am really pleased to see the fantastic Digital Ontology collection of essays that Antonia and I collated is now up on the Cultural…
Digital Infrastructure course blog
I’ve been running a course at UCL this term called Digital Infrastructure: Materiality, Information, Politics and the students have been uploading blog posts each week on an infrastructure…
Donna Haraway’s new book: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chtulucene
Donna Haraway’s new book is out in September with Duke University Press: Description In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers prov…
Trumpmenbashi: Central Asian dictatorship and American tabloid spectacle
My first article for The Diplomat is on the parallels between Donald Trump and the leaders of Central Asian authoritarian states: In January, shortly before he began sweeping…
Natural Infrastructures: Sediment, Science, and the Future of Southeast Louisiana
By Monica Patrice Barra, The Graduate Center, City University of New York § Losing a football field an hour “Historical and projected coastal Louisiana land changes: 1978-2050” (www.lacoas…
32. Review of Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994–2014 (Karatzogianni 2015)
This is the thirty-second post in the freedom technologists series Postill, J. in press 2016. Review of Karatzogianni, A. (2015) Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994–2014. Palgrave Macmillan…
Strategies to Support Your “Typical” Kids
I was thrilled to have a piece published by The Mighty last week. My aim was to reach as many parents as possible with a few key strategies…
geräuschkulisse/ mo 21.3./ 21.00
präsentiert im Doppelpack: Der Kapitän segelt nach Amazon (55 Minuten) Feature von SEROTONIN Das ist doch heutzutage ganz einfach, wenn man ein Buch veröffentlichen möchte. Wenn es…
Squeezing one year of fieldwork in New Zealand in three months
By Vivian Mac Gillavry Photo: A. Martineau During the first year of my Bachelor study in anthropology, we were told that the best field research should take at…
31. Hacktivism and open data in Latin America
This is the thirty-first post in the freedom technologists series I am spending three busy weeks in Lima (Peru) as well as a few days in Quito (Ecuador)…
Heartbroken in the Heartland
For The Globe and Mail, I wrote about the decline of the Midwest, and the attempts of politicians to court Midwestern voters: Missouri is a purple state – purple,…
Sham and the Rock on 17th March, St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is upon us once more. How are you going to celebrate yours? 17th March is a set date in the religious, secular and Diaspora calendars.…
What’s the Real Point of Brand Purpose? A Perspective on Purpose Alignment and Activation
This post was originally published for my business, Culture and can be found here Having spent the last 16 years working with a cornucopia of legacy brand and marketing…