Filing this one under “inspiration”
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Latour on Anthropology
Saturday, August 4, 2012
The following is part of this talk from Latour on his Modes of Existence project. I thought this was a very goo analysis of what anthropology has been, with Latour imagining what anthropology could be. Anthropology … is the way the modernising see the “other.” That’s a very strange anthropology, a very assymetric anthropology because [...]
Eugene Debs and a Vision for the Future
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Yesterday I posted the following links to Facebook – I thought today I’d share them with the rest of you. First up, we have a video of Mark Ruffalo reading a speech that Debs gave in 1918 in Canton, OH in opposition to World War I. It was this speech that landed Eugene Debs in [...]
Otherworldly Sound
Monday, May 14, 2012
Here’s another video. The scene is black because it was dark out when I took the video, but I was mainly trying to capture the sound. I took this from the bedroom window at my parents’ house. The sound is of hundreds or thousands of frogs croaking in the swamp on their property. This sound [...]
Movements of Things
Monday, May 14, 2012
Here are a couple of videos I took from the train using my phone. Between reading, working, and sleeping, I spent some time just looking out the window and was captivated by the diversity of things I saw. All of these things were made to compose a world – many were made by humans, many [...]
Ecology as Ideology
Sunday, April 8, 2012
An interesting video to encounter fresh back from a 2-day camping trip in the mountains of West Virginia! Many of you have probably seen this before – I think I may have, but don’t recall where or when. I agree in some sense with his analysis of ecology as ideology – that in order to [...]
Crossing Planetary Boundaries
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
We watched this video today in a class on the anthropology of climate change. It’s very interesting in that it defines and explains the transition from the Holocene to what has come to become called the Anthropocene. According to the speaker (Will Stefan) the most convincing factor for declaring such a transition is the increasing [...]