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When visitors to a famous conceptual artist's installation start mysteriously disappearing, the aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people who were …
From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to …
The field of human information behavior runs the gamut of processes from the realization of a need or gap in …
Cybernetics for the 21st Century Vol.1 is dedicated to the epistemological reconstruction of cybernetics, consisting of a series of historical …
Janky materiality works by not working. It is the spirit in the machine, the ghost in language, the provisional operation. …
A critical examination of the figure of the neural network as it mediates neuroscientific and computational discourses and technical practices.
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The island of Corsica has long been a popular destination for travelers in search of the European exotic, but it …
Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of …
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson became the most famous philosopher on earth. Where prior thinkers sketched …
In many places around the world, the freedom to simply care for one another is under attack by the powerful, …
The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and …
The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and …
This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on …
In relation to the idea of keeping Trickster – as master of chaos and disorder, boundary-crosser, and culture-giver – in our ethnographies, the second strategy that I would propose is to “keep it messy”, disordered, to let there be loose ends and dissonances.
— UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge by Diana Espirito Santo (Page 153)
This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on …
I approached ufology, first, as a researcher interested in paradigms of evidence. But then I began to focus on those stories about experiences that made no sense to the experiencer. I could have brushed them off; or archive them to later sort out. They represented the conceptual void, or nothingness, of fieldwork. What did not fit the data. But I was drawn like a moth to a fire.
— UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge by Diana Espirito Santo (Page 149)
