I’m having some difficulties figuring out exactly what kind of stuff I should be posting on this blog. Originally, I was inspired by blogs where anthropologists doing research on computer culture were posting some of their research findings mixed with various other stuff that they find interesting. These are blogs like Alex Golub’s Golublog and [...]
At last, after various difficulties, the pictures are uploaded and will more or less speak for themselves… Scenic Manchester University of Manchester Wilmslow Road also known as the Curry Mile The McDonald’s of Manchester kebab shops. You have to eat there at least once. City of Manchester Stadium – the home ground of Manchester City [...]
Dr. Gonzo bites the bullet as my friend Kristian puts it: “Så er der snart kun røvhuller tilbage….” what consequences this will have for his cartoon alter ego remains to be seen…
I am currently left in a state of technical impotency. This, of course, is partly my own fault as I did choose to solely use Linux on my laptop. Linux is the computer equivalent of Doing It Yourself, even though the various distributions do try to make it a lot easier on the user, and [...]
Spearheaded by famed anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, Prickly Paradigm Press puts out some quite interesting pamphlets, mostly containing interviews, tidbits of various philosophical ideas and other ideas too strange to get published elsewhere.
Oh, and University of Copenhagen’s Department of Anthropology are now proud to announce that they’ve finally settled on what anthropology really is . Any questions? There’s a panel debate coming soon, as well…
I’ve just attended a guest lecture with Gayatri Spivak, an Indian scholar of some repute. It was very much in the spirit of “Lettre Internationale”: Cosmopolitical intellectualism, working for the common good in ways that ordinary people cannot comprehend. A true and dedicated intellectual, she has mastered being intellectually funny in such a way that [...]
We were talking phenomenology in the “Perception, Cognition and Knowledge” course yesterday when this rather delicious quote surfaced: I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine. – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Primacy of Perception, 1964
This saturday I met a couple of swedes who work at a computer game company in Birmingham. It was pretty cool to talk to some actual people involved in the business, though I guess they might have thought it a bit tiresome to talk about it, as they do that every day at work, and [...]
I’m still having trouble getting my laptop on the internet, so I can’t post pictures from yesterday’s big Manchester football game (notice the supremely silly headline). It was freezing cold, but the stadium and the game was suitably impressive. … oh, since it is Valentine’s Day today, I suppose I should treat all of you [...]