on culturing

Index of posts

• Index of posts on popular culture (January 27, 2024)
  Posts exploring implications of popular culture events (movies, youtube, memes, etc.) [catlist name="on the popular"]

• Barbie and their people (January 24, 2024)
  I would probably not have gone to see Barbie (the movie) if I had not read so much about it over the past few weeks. So, here is another take,…

• Race Consciousness, Racism (and race?): Contradictions with consequences (culture!) (July 28, 2023)
  From the time when I played “les coboilles et les indiens,” 70 years ago, in the streets of small Southern village, I have experienced something, that is, precisely, a “thing”…

• The end of Corona (May 6, 2023)
  I first mused about the end of the Corona epoch (a.k.a “COVID-19") two years ago. I did it again a year ago. In both cases I took into account both…

• Experiencing life and constructing a local “next” (June 13, 2022)
  If a “lived experience” is one that one has, personally, experienced, then I have never experienced COVID (the virus). I have experienced Corona (the cultural epoch) but, to the extent…

• “Lived experience”: mind and words (June 7, 2022)
  In recent years, students have heard me wince when they talk about “lived experienced.” “Could there be ‘dead experiences’?” I quipped. But they persisted as they are well aware of…

• Local controls of mask (not) wearing (April 8, 2022)
  Nurse to other nurses (in a health care setting where nurses and patients must wear masks, but where the “office” staff, also nurses, do not consistently do); “I do not…

• Wondering about “the [music] of [human beings for the last 60,000 years]” (October 14, 2021)
  Recently, I argued, controversially, that one type of “othering” is what distinguishes anthropology from the other sciences concerned with humanity (from neurology to sociology). Anthropology, as disciplined practice, is here…

• Modeling acting bureaucracies (August 16, 2021)
  Balzac was one of the first writers to make bureaucracy the subject of serious fiction, notably ..., where he takes the un-Kafkaesque delight in its lumbering procedures. As he shows…

• A coda on Corona and governmentality (July 11, 2021)
  A while ago I mused about the ending of the Corona epoch. Many parts of the world are now in transition towards this ending. As usual various governments, and subgovernments,…