The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, coming from Princeton this September, details here. Matsutake is the most valuable…
This post marks the first installment of our special review section on Money from Nothing. Deborah James’ Money From Nothing traces the evolution of credit and debt in post-apartheid South…
100 words I stood on the edge of the square… a lot of strangers were there… I heard the echos of their grey talking about the weather… You…
Zum 20. Geburtstag von Radio Blau lenken wir den Blick nach Innen. Wie funktioniert eine Freies Radio ohne Festangestellte? Lutz erzählt von der Arbeit im Vorstand des Radiovereins…
Tom hat in Berlin das Freie Kinder-Radio Radiojojo gegründet, das Kindern an verschiedenen Orten in der ganzen Welt, Kinder und ihre Ideen zu Wort kommen lässt. Tom erzählt,…
Über Frauenrollen in Indiens Medienwelten gibt es viele Klischees, wie die Unterdrückung am Arbeitsplatz. In ihrer ersten Feldforschung hinterfragt die damalige Magister-Studentin Stefanie Mauksch die…
Educating ‘bilingual’ children in Spain and Denmark: childhood bilingualism as opportunity or constraint by Kenn Nakata Steffensen University College Cork/University of Tokyo See PDF This article exa…
(*This paper is part of a larger place mapping project.) The least preferred places in Riga tended to be mentioned by teens where they had concerns about their…
Originally posted on Keywords for the Age of Austerity: Resilience, n., “Elasticity; the power of resuming an original shape or position after compression, bending, etc.” “The quality or…
Part 2. Breaking windows and broken windows policing: “Do we have the same level of outrage when a young black person gets killed as we do when a…
I found Wark’s recent book quite good, and it has produced some interesting conversation between Zizek and Wark as well. Here is a recent talk:
Originally posted on synthetic zero: “No Promises: Mass Extinction, Security and Intervention in the Anthropocene The concept of ‘security’ is paradoxical. It acknowledges the fragility of life and…
„-T.: OMG! Doherty claims he’s clean. That’s not Doherty anymore. ”Sex, Drugs and rock’n’roll” prince of the 21th (sic) century is now dead to me. – T. added:…
When people keep getting warnings but nothing ever happens… they just start ignoring them. One of the interesting things about living as an expatriate in Egypt and India…
Still from Living Along the Fenceline (2011), directors Lina Hoshino & Gwyn Kirk By Hinemoana of Turtle Island: Lani Teves, Liza Keanuenueokalani Williams, Maile Arvin, Fuifuilupe Niumetol…
Look at me and explain „who do you want to be in ten years?”. „I want to be a famous professor, living abroad. I want to publish a…
What would happen if anthropologists, for some limited purposes, abolished the division between academic writing and journalism that Mauss himself observed and that has prevented us from grasping…