The study of technology can no longer be segregated into a field of “science and technology studies”: technology impacts— directly or indirectly—most contemporary ethnographic projects. Two Bits is, in this sense, a landmark work. In tracing, as its subtitle indicates, “the cultural significance of Free Software,” the book shows how a cultural...
Current Anthropology prints a review of anarchist Anthropologist David Graeber. "In Lost People, David Graeber’s goal is to write a nonfictionsocial novel. To do so, he builds a mosaic from the stories people tell and animates them through his ability to narrate the fears, desires, and pasts that shape their world. The result is an ethnography...
"Its kinda' weird, I am a radical green who questions industrial civilization and its impact on the physical and mental health of all of us and its reliance on the enslavement and virtual enslavement of third world populations. On the other hand, I am a radical technophile who loves information technology and its continuing potential to connect the world, share information and decentralize power. Of course, the problem includes the violation of property rights by transnational corporations, the subsidization of pollution, the false notion of "intellectual property", and the subsidization of slavery through state military and police agents."
- illuminati