Joanna Zylinska: minimal ethics for the Anthropocene
An interesting new book on Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene from Open Humanities Press here. A related talk below by the author, Joanna Zylinksa:
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Our Movies, Ourselves: “Reel Life” vis-à-vis “Real Life”
On the eve of the release of The Force Awakens, the Star Wars saga (including the “Special Editions”) has made about $2.2 billion at the box office (U. S. sales only), more than the gross domestic…
Best of 2015: AAA Blog Posts
Here are the ten most-read, topic-driven AAA blog posts of 2015! Race and Rachel Dolezal: A Conversation with Patricia Sunderland Final Report: Task Force on AAA Engagement on…
Screw the gift economy, a reply to Clay Shirky
I came across a post today by Gaby Dunn called “Get rich or die vlogging: The sad economics of internet fame.” Dunn gives us YouTube and Instagram celebrities…
How does an Anthropologist add value in the workplace?
At work I’m not employed as an anthropologist. Not directly anyway; my skills in research and higher education certainly helped…
Open doors in Paris: when the private becomes public
sebastiendubey.com by Lucrezia Giordano Home is the private space par excellence. It is a place where people can develop their own micro-society, based on the relationship with a…
Charles Taylor on: Democracy, Diversity, Religion
Particularly relevant given the charged contexts of late:
A New National Anthem?
Whatever the political and economic rationales existing beneath the surface, the modern nation of the US was created by European refugees fleeing religious prejudice who embraced the ideological…
26. Thoughts on the symposium “Internet in Southeast Asia: Power and Society”
This is the twenty-sixth post in the freedom technologists series See also the Directory of freedom technologists This past 3-4 December 2015 I was at the Bandar Sunway…
An open letter to Prime Minister Turnbull: What would research and work look like if I was in charge?
Dear Mr Turnbull, If I was in charge of research I would always include children on the research team. Instead of talking about fresh perspectives, I would build…
Attenzione, un governo a 5 Stelle non è l’alternativa alla sinistra
Pubblicato sul settimanale Left in edicola dal 5 Dicembre. Fa un certo effetto ascoltare Paolo Flores D’Arcais in un lungo intervento sui tre valori della Rivoluzione francese –…
A Sixteen Year Old finds Encouragement and Inspiration at AAA 2015
Chandler Zausner, one of AAA’s youngest members, submitted the following post about his experience at the AAA Annual Meeting and how he caught the anthropology bug. My name…
The Grinder and the perils of celebrity culture
The Grinder is a show from FOX about a TV actor (Rob Lowe as “Dean”) who leaves his hit series, a courtroom drama, to spend some time in…
The Shock of the Anthropocene: the Earth, history, and us
This is an interesting looking book, from Verso. “Scientists tell us that the Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. We are not facing simply an environmental…
-Ethnographie ist Literatur – Gespräch über die Edition Tethys und die Kraft von Geschichten in der Wissenschaft
http://cba.fro.at/wp-content/uploads/weltempfnger/interviewolafmixdown.mp3 Die Edition Tethys ist ein neu gegründeter Verlag, der sich Begegnungen, Erkundungen und Wi…
An article! An article!
If there’s one thing that helps to ground you when you’ve felt voiceless or powerless in the past, it’s when you see the writing equivalent of your name…
Paying it Forward at AAA 2015
AAA member Ralph Bolton shared the following story on his Facebook page: “One evening in Denver at the American Anthropological Association meeting a few days ago, I went out…
Isabelle Stengers’ new book available open access
Isabelle Stengers’ new book, In Catastrophic Times, is available for free as a .pdf download at this site. Here is a description of the book (which you can…
Celebrating anthropology
This blogpost is an open message to my colleagues and friends who are celebrating today the 25th anniversary of the first anthropology department in Hungary. Dear all, I…
My Tribe Is an Unsophisticated People
This is a photograph of Sara Little Turnbull (1917–2015). Sara was an designer and anthropologist. In 1988 she founded, and for 18 years she ran, the Process of…
Post Gezi Sensibilities and the Recent Turkish Elections
In Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks, Jenny White (2014:198) argues, “In the Gezi clashes, a new generation of citizens, whose expectations have been shaped by twenty-first-century global…
America’s water cure towns
This is a very interesting piece from citylab, worth checking into if you find previous ways of thinking about human-water (and city!) relationships intriguing.