Digital Money, Mobile Media, and the Consequences of Granularity
Nicholas Negroponte famously insisted that the dotcom boomers, “Move bits, not atoms.” Ignorant of the atom heavy human bodies, neuron dense brains, and physical hardware needed to make and move those...
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Mediating the Real I
Whenever I mention that one of my primary areas of anthropological research is media, the question I come across on a recurring basis is the following: How will you be able to pursue that through...
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Anthropology of this Century
I had the pleasure of interviewing Charles Stafford, Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, about his new anthropology journal Anthropology of this Century. Click below to read...
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Minding the Gap
[The post below was contributed by guest blogger Lane DeNicola, and is part of a series on the relationship between academic precarity and the production of ethnography, introduced here. Read Lane’s...
View ArticleDestructive Scanning for Fun and Profit
If you’re reading this then you, like me, probably have too many books. As a professor in Hawaii I really suffer from this problem — in a privileged position in the university free, used, and discarded...
View ArticleThe Internet: Who Built That?! (Part 1)
[This is a part of a six part blog on four debates about the origins of the internet. Please see all six posts here.] Suddenly in the wake of President Barack Obama’s untimely but ultimately non-fatal...
View ArticleWho Built the Internet? Corporations! (Part 2)
Obama may have gaffed, neoliberal assistant editors at Fox News and the Republican National Committee, exploitatively edited, repurposed, and exaggerated the speech, but it was Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleWho Built the Internet? The State! (Part 3)
Despite Crovitz’s best wishes, Taylor’s Xerox PARC Ethernet didn’t become the internet as Slate’s Farhad Manjoo and Time’s Harry McCracken explain. Two days later, Manjoo rebutted Crovitz’s “almost...
View ArticleWho Built the Internet? Studly Genius Individuals! (Part 4)
Thus far Crovitz’s and Manjoo’s positions are located within modernist historiographical and liberal conceptions over the battles of freedom, with network technology as a proxy battlefield, and the...
View ArticleWho Built the Internet? We Did! (Part 5)
In 2006, according to Time Magazine, the theory of technoindividualism “took a serious beating.” In electing You to the position of the Person of the Year, Time prophesized the fourth discourse of...
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So Who Really Did Build the Assemblage which is the Internet? (Part 6)
The internet is translative boundary object for political thought, situated between four liberal ideologies about freedom and the state, corporation, individual, and the public. The internet is thus a...
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What archaeologists do
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Sara Perry.] On Friday my colleague, Dr Colleen Morgan, and I will be co-delivering a paper at the University of Bradford’s Archaeologies of Media and Film...
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What archaeologists do: Research Design and the Media Archaeology Drive...
For the past two weeks, Colleen Morgan and I have been outlining the background to an actual “media archaeology” project wherein we extend the intellectual and methodological toolkit of archaeology...
View ArticleEthics, Visual Media and the Digital
As c.10,000 anthropologists descend upon Washington, D.C. this week for the annual American Anthropological Association conference, my colleague Jonathan Marion (University of Arkansas) and I,...
View ArticleThe Privacy Paradox: IRBs in an Era of NSA Mass Surveillance
[This invited post was written by Daniel O’Maley, who recently graduated with a PhD in cultural anthropology from Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the global Internet freedom movement and...
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Mobile apps and the material world
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Sara Perry.] Testing of mobile app prototype with users at the archaeological site of Ҫatalhӧyük, Turkey. Photo by Sara Perry, 2015. This is the first in a series...
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Pixel vs Pigment. The goal of Virtual Reality in Archaeology
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Colleen Morgan. Post by Laia Pujol-Tost. Archaeology has a long tradition of using visual representations to depict the past. For most of its history, images were...
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A Tempest in a Digital Teapot
It was hot, but that was not unusual. We woke up at the first call to prayer to be on site at sunrise. I would trudge through the dimly-lit streets of the village, up to the ancient tell, and sit next...
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Mixed Exhibits: The best of both worlds?
Post by Laia Pujol-Tost: Archaeology is mostly about materiality. Its epistemological foundation is based on the relationship between humans and the material culture. Some of this objects, will later...
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Analogue to Digital and Back Again, Part II
By Kathryn Killackey (Killackey Illustration and Design) This post is part of this month’s analog/digital series and the second post discussing my work as an archaeological illustrator in relation to...
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