March 2009
Academic boredom and ambivalence →
Boredom, he said, is an institutionally induced affect in academia. It is “the sense that the seminar is never going to end, that the speaker will never get to the point, that the articles one is reading are proceeding at a glacial pace, that one simply cannot get into a discussion, that one dreads getting into it in the first place” (319).
Workers Take Action as Mexico Is Sucked Into... →
With the two economies firmly interlocked, the United States’ biggest export to Mexico nowadays is economic meltdown. [via]
“In the obliteration of domesticity by drug production, we see a perversion of...”
– The architecture of the drug trade
The World Without Technology →
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“When The Party Ends” by Saturday...
“The abstraction of symptoms to invisible markers allowed the pharmaceutical...”
– Pharmaceutical marketing and the abstraction of consumer needs
“I Don’t Care About You” by Blatz Kind of like...
Great Lakes Urban-Exploration →
To us urban exploration is about three things; history, photography, and exploring your surroundings. These locations exist in our everyday lives wether we choose to notice them or not. Driving to work, most people don’t ever think about that abandoned factory they pass, or the tunnels under the road. But these forgotten or ignored places are a part of who we are. It’s basic human...
Teaching Anthropology of the Body →
I have been wanting to take a seminar in Anthropology of the body, but my circumstances have yet to allow it. I’m interested in doing some independent study based on some the syllabuses/articles here.
Somatosphere in general is pretty great. Med anthro blogging out of McGill.
The Colonization of Pharmaceutical Science by... →
We assume that the scientific method is applied straightforwardly to all biomedical research, including the discovery and testing of pharmaceuticals… They show that pharmaceutical research is widely corrupted by marketing agendas. The evidence is incontrovertible, however, the process by which this corruption occurs isn’t straightforward.
“It is nature that dictates that at some point, usually in her 50s, a woman...”
– Invisible Women [via]
“Though vaccinating boys will reduce the amount of virus that is transmitted back...”
– Sore Subjects: Now That HPV Vaccine Is Available For Boys, Debate Turns to Health Benefits, Not Sex [via]
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“Ceremony” by Xiu Xiu [via]
“MAKE ADOPTING A WORLD CURRENCY OR SOMEBODY ELSE’S CURRENCY ILLEGAL.
ANY...”
– BackTo1776 commenting on America’s Wish List YES THEN WE CAN SEE WHO IS REALLY IN CAHOOTS WITH THE ANTICHRIST. I HAVE READ LEFT BEHIND, I KNOW ALL ABOUT IT.
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“Michigan is like a state-sized version of a meth addict’s trailer. The place is...”
– For the next two weeks, highways are not landfills
Sometimes I wonder
switchblades:
The real reason is that anthropologists are fucking odd.
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.
“All led to Science’s grand unified theory of wearing a lab coat. One...”
– Why Do Scientists Wear Lab Coats?
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“Do They Owe Us A Living?” by Crass...
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Sometimes I wonder
kings:
why I don’t have that many friends that are in the anthropology department, and then I realize its because we don’t have any common area on campus to hang out. Other departments have student lounges or patios, etc. We just have a tiny hallway!
That seems better than the reason I did not befriend other anthropology majors at my undergraduate institution, which was that they were all...
Academics and ex-model lead demonstration against... →
Mr Knight, who is Professor of Anthropology at UEL’s School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, declared that a similar protest held last October was the start of “the revolution”. The professor spent Friday preparing costumes and props for the siege of the Bank of England. He said: “We want a revolution. We are quite open about it.”
Educated at the...
“Everything that we’re doing right now is engineered to avoid reality, to sustain...”
– Jim Kunstler [via]