Category: Events

Things that happened.

  • Brutal irony

    Saturday was Buddha Pūrṇimā, the international holiday that celebrates the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and passing. The UN Secretary General issued a message calling for solidarity and the alleviation of suffering....

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  • Subversion, Conversion and so forth:

    I’m on the train home after an intense conference on using anthropological and design tools to thwart planned obsolescence. Another view of the conference used ThoughtMesh to build a picture...

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  • Visuals

    I talked for a while today to my friend and colleague Trevor Stack’s class on California—or, to be more accurate, I was the exhibit for the day. Very odd to...

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  • Holi freezing heck!

    Okay: Bhavana had a great idea. Why shouldn’t the Anthropology Society, who are always up for a ritual, play Holi? The results speak for themself: see this, and this, and...

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  • Cameroons bushmeat in the news

    Bushmeat in Africa is a hot topic right now, less so in South and Southeast Asia. No one so far has written clear theory for the study of bushmeat –...

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