This from Mike Bobick with many thanks This amazing video that is but one of many examples of everyday items (beanbags, water coolers, abstract minimalist techno that has now...
Erroll Morris's short film on the "Umbrella Man" in Abraham Zapruder's film of JFK's assassination provides a wonderful example of the difficulties in interpreting things What...
The new issue of Annual Review of Anthropology contains an article of mine examining the emerging archaeological investigations of sovereignty From the abstract: Archaeology...
As a followup to a prior post, here are the collected podcasts to the BBC series: A History of the World in 100 Objects BBC - Podcasts - A History of the World in 100...
As part of a reading/writing group that I'm participating in, I've been catching up with the impact of the wider material turn in philosophy In particular, I've been trying to get...
A thoughtful recent review of Coole and Frost's New Materialisms (2011) Reviews in Cultural Theory |...