January 2012
3 posts
“The denial of lower, coarse, vulgar, venal, servile- in a word, natural-...”
– Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction, 1984 (via fuckyeahanthrotheory)
December 2011
3 posts
“Can I share with you my worldview? All of humankind has one thing in common: the...”
– Tina Fey as “Liz Lemon” on the universality of the human experience.
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
1 post
June 2011
5 posts
Watchempowerment, upcycling, art & music… welp, this is pretyt much everything I love
unconsumption:
Twenty-year-old David Rocha dreams of one day becoming a professional violinist, but for now he plays for the community of Sao Miguel, a poor neighborhood outside Brazil’s largest city, Sao Paolo.
The violin he uses is fashioned out of old wood that he found at a garbage dump. The drawers...
Doctors Without Borders: The Impact of... →
doctorswithoutborders:
Fewer Deaths Globally, HIV-related deaths dropped by 19% from 2004 to 2009 as ART access increased. In Thyolo district, Malawi, MSF estimates that over 10,000 lives were saved between 2000-2007 because of scale-up of HIV/AIDS care and ART. Less Illness ART decreases the risk of developing TB…
May 2011
13 posts
“No amount of knowledge of ‘competent natives’ rules and codes can ‘account for’...”
– Marvin Harris, Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture, 1979 (via fuckyeahanthrotheory)
The CDC on How to Prepare for the Zombie... →
jayparkinsonmd:
Whoa.
Design Anthropology →
http://www.design-anthropology.net/
“One of the central precepts of Marx’s historical materialism is that we have to...”
– David Harvey, The Urban Experience (via effusionofbiopower)
This is the most concise definition of the fetishism of the commodity I’ve ever read. I love David Harvey.
(via fuckyeahanthrotheory)
“In the 200,000 years since Homo Sapiens took her first steps across the African...”
– Jonathan Good (via soupsoup)
And 2/3’s of all people who have ever lived to the age 65 are alive today. Antibiotics, vaccines, and clean water— those solve almost all health problems that contribute to longevity and life expectancy. Once you save the kids, you spend trillions of dollars on medical...
“The concept of “lesbianism” has firm connotations of a fixed sexual identity and...”
– Gloria Wekker, The Poltiics of Passion: Women’s Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora, pg 69.
April 2011
9 posts
“On today’s market, we find a whole series of products deprived of their...”
– -Slavoj Zizek, Liberal multiculturalism masks an old barbarism with a human face, taken from the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/03/immigration-policy-roma-rightwing-europe
(via argonautsofanthropology)
Watchnorthwesternu:
Happy Earth Day! Watch the video to see how two student groups raised more than $117,000 to give Northwestern it’s first onsite renewable energy source—a solar array on the roof of the Ford Engineering and Design Center. [Full Story]
March 2011
1 post
Creative Entreprenuership and Community... →
Brooklyn is getting a new public market; a space where entrepreneurs of all kinds can rent a booth and sell their items to the public. People have long seen the benefits of farmer’s markets as an important tool for both local agriculture and the community, but the parallel movement for material goods has not gained as much support.
The current market forces consumers to choose between the...
February 2011
10 posts
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Plastic Bag is a short film by the acclaimed director Ramin Bahrani and explores the journey of a plastic bag as it sets out to trace its existence and its maker. The film depicts how the bag struggles with its immortality and travels across America filled with mixed experiences, before settling down into the trash patch of the Pacific Ocean.
At nearly 20 minutes, this is...
January 2011
2 posts
8 Famous Archaeologists who suck at their jobs →
favorite line: “Most archeologists are after information about ancient cultures and Indy’s daring raid destroys an entire temple full of thousand year old machines that are still-functioning. He destroys them so that he can grab a bit of gold that weighs as much as a small rhinoceros’s ball sack. That’s like a scientist happening upon a working model of the Starship...
Bits and Bites: How Technology is Changing the Way... →
December 2010
9 posts
Haiti: Where the Aid System has Failed to Stop...
doctorswithoutborders:
Today, the Guardian published an op-ed by MSF International President: “Haiti should be an unlikely backdrop for the latest failure of the humanitarian relief system. The country is small and accessible and, following last January’s earthquake, it hosts one of the largest and best-funded international aid deployments in the world. Why then, have at least 2,500 people died...