As I sat down last night, supposedly to continue writing my essay discussing “how appropriate the cinematic principle of montage is as a means of conveying the realities of post-socialism” (yes, for one of my Siberian courses), instead, I messed around with my computer a …
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Yesterday, I finished reading “Nonfiction” by the American author Chuck Palahniuk. Palahniuk is probably best known for his book “Fight Club”, a violently nihilistic and entertaining novel about young men fighting to find a meaning in their lives. It didn’t really sell well until it …
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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.
Read Morea definition of sorts..
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…
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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
Read MoreSiberian (visual) Ethnography
My courses have so far proved to be quite Siberia-centric. As anthropologists usually base much of their teaching on their own fieldwork experience, I wasn’t particularly surprised to see that it would play a part in the courses, but I hadn’t realised that it would …
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I’ve been packing away my Science Fiction books before leaving for England. I have a not-so-secret passion for Science Fiction, and I especially like the sub-genre called “social science fiction”. Instead of focusing on the technological aspects of science, the genre mostly focuses on the …
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