CAPITALISM – ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

101 Things We Learned from WikiLeaks’ Podesta Emails

US voters have been given a rare, even unprecedented opportunity to look at the machinery inside an electoral campaign and a foundation, as presented by the insiders themselves. Being afforded this privilege motivated one columnist to assert: “Those voting for Hillary Clinton, defending Clinton and supporting Clinton without reading the information reported by WikiLeaks are […]

by Donnchadh Mac an Ghoill

25 Years without the Berlin Wall

Needless to say, the end of foreign imposed partition is an occasion of joy for any country. Here in Ireland, we look forward to the day when the British occupation will be lifted, and our land returned to native rule. Koreans also look forward to the day when Anglo-Saxon forces leave their land, and allow […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

New Book: Emergency as Security–Liberal Empire at Home and Abroad

Kyle McLoughlin and Maximilian Forte “Just as our vision of homeland security has evolved as we have made progress in the War on Terror, we also have learned from the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina….We have applied the lessons of Katrina to this Strategy to make sure that America is safer, stronger, and better prepared. To […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Asserting the Liberty of Things over People

As we witness the national security state at work in crushing protest in the U.S., with the arrest of well over 100 protesters at the Republican National Convention, one has to be reminded of one of the most basic tenets of “liberty”/”freedom” under capitalism: the power of things over people. In almost all such situations, […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Minerva: Risks, Opportunities, Boycotts, and Mentally Handicapped Informants?

In the Washington Post article for which I was interviewed (I am the “but”, appropriately at the end), there was a suggestion that a project critical of U.S. foreign policy should be submitted to test the openness of the Minerva Research Initiative and its Pentagon-funded counterpart at the National Science Foundation. I do not recall […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

The Craft of the Online Anthropologists: The New Medium is the Message

The Craft of Social Anthropology, edited by A.L. Epstein and published in 1978, was jokingly referred to by some older anthropologists as “The Crafty Anthropologist” (or maybe it was a private joke in a small circle — no matter). I think the joke is a useful point of departure for this post. CRAFT cræft “power, […]