Kill the Animals, Save the Animals: Watch a Gamer Subculture Define Its Values at Games Done Quick
Editor’s note: We hope you enjoyed Robert Myer’s recent piece, “The Great American Cultural Eclipse,” and the many themes made available through its hyperlinks. Here, in a similar format, is our first post of 2018. Happy New Year! – Maria D. Vesperi, Executive Coordinating Editor, Anthropology Now Projects ~~~ Lots of children become enthralled with […]
Nanotechnology and Religion
Chris Toumey, a cultural anthropologist at the University of South Carolina, studies relations between nanotechnology and faith: Until now, religions have been remarkably silent on nanotechnology, Toumey points out. Nothing compared to the harsh bioethical controversies about in vitro fertilisation in the Catholic world, for example. "Nanotechnology is a heterogeneous body of sciences and technologies: […]
Cyborg Anthropology
Amber Case is a cyborg anthropologist. The TED Website explains: Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on “external brains” (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives. But will these machines ultimately connect or conquer us? […]