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Ghost Exchange: Complexity, Velocity, and Risk

Increased complexity leads to increased risk. Stock markets run by algorithms, creating virtual markets that even the experts have difficulty explaining. The “flash crash,” “dark pools,” and “high-frequency trading”—what do they all mean? Throughout 2018, and now into 2019, we have witnessed some extreme volatility on stock markets, sometimes with swings so huge that many […]

Resistance, Rupture, and Repair: The Story of the Caribs of St. Vincent

Originally published on H-Caribbean, June 2014 (Director) Andrea E. Leland. Yurumein (Homeland). January 2014. 50-minute documentary / DVD format / 4:3 aspect ratio / surround sound. Resistance, Rupture, and Repair: The Story of the Caribs of St. Vincent in the Caribbean Yurumein by Andrea E. Leland effectively begins twice: first it begins in St. Vincent, […]

Turcisce Carnival by Ivo Kuzmanic: Comments from FFEM 2007

Given the previous post dealing with comments presented to the 5th annual International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec, I decided to also post extracts of the presentation I made at the previous festival, then called the Montreal Festival of Ethnographic Films (FFEM). The film I reviewed and commented on at the January 2007 festival was: […]