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JULY June was a month so heavily saturated with key turning point events, that it seemed like the longest month of the year—but then July came. Already, on the first day, we were treated to a very unusual sight: an obviously chastened and tamed John Bolton, just back from his visit with Vladimir Putin in […]
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Within the question of the professionalisation of the discipline lies a still largely unexplored area of how Anthropology serves as a western, largely white, middle-class mode of ‘consumption’, specifically the consumption of knowledge about the world that has been ‘appropriately’ filtered, organized, and translated. Of course getting a degree in Anthropology is not just like any other form of consumption, just as it is not merely an expression of curiosity: the process results in formal certification.
Read More…Imperial Brains Blown Out When you’re wounded an’ left on Afghanistan’s plains An’ the women come out to cut up your remains Jus’ roll to your rifle an’ blow out your brains An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.–Rudyard Kipling Last night Senator John McCain tweeted, “I believe the President’s artificial date for withdrawal […]
Read More…This is my last post for a couple of weeks at least, but I had to put this up before going. The recent U.S. elections were a unique experience for me, from the media vantage point. I neither relied on cable television (to which I no longer subscribe), nor the usual PBS-ABC-NBC-CBS news talk shows, […]
Read More…What a night. I am happy to have been alive to see this. Right now a million people packed into a park in Chicago await the arrival of Barack Obama, the next president of the United States. John McCain finished speaking a few minutes ago. In part because the competing sides that dominated the election […]
Read More…I am very grateful for the efforts of many Americans who have tried to make this a much more interesting election than it really should be. Marshall Sahlins should be delighted to see two of his most favoured concepts, continuity and change, appear with such regular emphasis in the campaign narratives. I suspect that a […]
Read More…Another installment of Monday Morning Madness, featuring three short comical videos dealing with the U.S. elections that are about to conclude — finally, at long last. The last video might add some perspective to these elections. No matter who wins, I worry. In the meantime, a few more laughs: Montreal’s involvement in the U.S. elections: […]
Read More…The good part about being publicly demonized by the likes of John McCain is that it reaffirms your value and relevance as a scholar. In other words, McCain makes you look good. No flattery is intended, he would have made you look good anyway, pretty well by virtue of the fact that he is John […]
Read More…I wish I had seen this sooner — a brilliant political remix video over at deathpower, well worth watching: When Game Show Audiences Appear More Informed Than the US Electorate
Read More…I have no “Monday Morning Madness” post of my own today — there was far too much madness to go around and I could not settle on a choice. Trust me, I tried, but between Alan Greenspan saying he was “partially wrong” and there was “a flaw” in his ideology (testifying in the Waxman House […]
Read More…I just finished writing in my previous post about distinguishing between Amerikkka and America, and about that American “underground” that is essentially a counterculture whose virtues include strong self-criticism, rehumanization of ways of perceiving Others, greater empowerment of disadvantaged communities, personal decolonization, to name only a few. Moments afterwards, I found the following comment posted […]
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