Category: Fomenting

Inching towards change?

  • 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...

  • 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 –...

  • What, so what, what for?

    I discover with delight that my stated purpose here has aroused comment – over at Jinajik I’ve been chided for an apparent attack of despair. Now, Jinajik himself should know...

  • Sitting back to back.

    I work in a corporation, cunningly disguised as a university, that shifted from an open-source server suite to Micro$oft about a year ago. Life on the network has been miserable...