I could hardly identify with this more… …let us listen to what Matsutake research group has to say: “Why do ethnography? One reason is to spurn spectacular capitalism, which fills our screens with glamorous happy thin elites playing with their globally-standard expensive toys. The world – in its materiality and its diversity – is worth [...]
Posts Tagged ‘culture’
Memory as Social Ideology
I’ve been thinking a little bit lately about the way people tell stories – about themselves, about each other – to create a sense of identity and self-knowledge, to guide future actions, etc. I’ve been thinking about how these stories are continually revised, updated, reverted, and changed. So it was with interest that I came [...]
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Influential anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss died this week, just shy of his 101st birthday. The Savage Minds blog has a good summary of his significance. Coming coincidentally at a time when I’m experiencing a renewed interest in my old BA degree’s subject, this has given me pause to reflect on what I’ve forgotten, what little I [...]
Exclusivity: which parts of the city are Yours?
Interesting post on a blog about Liverpool history… Nina Simon, a museum blogger I greatly admire and enjoy reading, recently posted on the topic of ‘exclusive’ places, and the odd way in which people find them more welcoming than more public spaces. She was referring to museums, which can be both public spaces and yet [...]
I Must Read This Book
28 Oct 2009 at 15:26
by Adam
in Misc.
tags: activism, book, culture, left, liberal, Philosophy, Politics, Society
Philosopher Richard Rorty believes that there is hope for America, but that today’s Left is not meeting the challenge. He contrasts the cultural, academic Left’s focus on our heritage of shame (which, he admits, has to the extent that it makes hatred intolerable had the positive effect of making America a more civil society) with [...]
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