By joneilortiz on April 9, 2009
I love the idea that our everyday world is overlaid with (or better yet, haunted by) a vibrant, fictive universe of characters and storylines, spin-offs and syndications. And so, apparently, does Dan Meth, whose Pop-Cultural Charts series maps much more than the geography of TV sitcoms. These maps are also, to be sure, a blueprint for the [...]
Posted in Film, Noted | Tagged geography, history, maps, tv |
By joneilortiz on April 9, 2009
The much-awaited BLDGBLOG book is out. Sounds like the visually-stunning, encyclopaedic tour de force we’ve been expecting:
“It’s got five major chapters and a huge bibliography; it’s got interviews, full-color photo spreads (by Simon Norfolk! David Maisel! Edward Burtynsky! Ilkka Halso! Bas Princen! and more!), as well as original illustrations by my colleague at Dwell, Brendan Callahan; it’s [...]
Posted in Design, Noted | Tagged architecture, Design, environment |
By joneilortiz on April 8, 2009
Somehow I missed this inspiring development: artists are moving in to Detroit, buying up houses for dirt cheap and converting them into linked-up, green artist communities.
A local couple, Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert, started the ball rolling. An artist and an architect, they recently became the proud owners of a one-bedroom house in East Detroit [...]
Posted in Design, Noted | Tagged architecture, Design, environment |
By joneilortiz on April 7, 2009
I love the idea that, as Ulla remarks in the comments, “we are really not that much more advanced than the 1700’s …” Perhaps we do, on the whole, tend to overestimate the degree to which new forms of social ties are historically novel. Maybe Facebook is merely the next phase, or version, of a much more [...]
Posted in New Media, Noted | Tagged history, social media |
By joneilortiz on April 2, 2009
Der Spiegel reports of another “Veiled Woman Removed From Bus in Denmark“:
“For Amina Farah Suleiman, it was the fourth time in a few months that she has been kicked off a bus in the harbor city of Odense. Her Islamic niqab only had a small opening for the eyes, and the driver refused to accept [...]
Posted in Design, Noted | Tagged biopolitics, Politics, religion |
By joneilortiz on April 1, 2009
Ever since Ken Hudson Campbell, playing a jaded but well-meaning Santa (-in his first role, it turns out), put out his butt and pulled up his beard to accommodate one last request (in Home Alone of course), I, and perhaps every adult American my age, have been uniquely attuned to Hollywood’s penchant for ironizing — prematurely, [...]
Posted in Film, Noted | Tagged capitalism, children |
By joneilortiz on March 30, 2009
(via Somatosphere)
American medical education: anthropological approaches (towards a reading list)
Publish at Scribd or explore others: Academic Work anthropology bibliography
The Body In and Out of Social Theory [Syllabus]
Publish at Scribd or explore others: Academic Work anthropology Syllabus
Anthropology of the Body [Syllabus]
Publish at Scribd or explore others: Academic Work anthropology Syllabus
The Body Bibliography
Publish [...]
Posted in Noted | Tagged bibliography, Social Sciences |
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