“A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.” Video created by Andrew Huang.
Sometimes things just seem to happen all at the right moment.
Categories: anthropology, psychology, technology
Tagged: freedom, marcuse, power, sociology, technology
Another article glossing over the significance of soft power for the easier-to-comprehend (and market) horrors (fascination?) of physical violence.
For those unfamiliar with HTS
Since 2007, the Pentagon’s Human Terrain System (HTS) has been placing social scientists in every Army combat brigade, regiment and Marine Corps regimental combat team. There are now more than 500 people employed [...]
Categories: anthropology
Tagged: anthropology, ethics, hts, war
This photo helps anchor Tristes Tropiques in reality for me. Hard to believe he’s nearing his 101st birthday. Thanks @kerim for this.
This beast of an intellectual is one of the few scholars who are responsible for blowing my mind all over the place with their theories of humanity. I still use his ideas on structural [...]
Categories: anthropology
Tagged: anthropology, levi-strauss