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Week 12: 18-24 March 2019

March 24, 2019 By Karl Andersson Leave a Comment

It was a stressful week. I finished the rough cut of the machinima already on Tuesday night, watched it with S on Wednesday and got solid and important feedback. Set to work on the quite significant changes immediately.

My friend A arrived unexpectedly from Sweden Wednesday night.

I loved Clifford Geertz’ thick text on cockfighting for Theory & History Unit 12 on Friday. “Cockfighting as a text”, that reflects and shapes society similarly to the works by Shakespeare and Dickens. James Clifford’s introduction to Writing Cultures was harder to get through. I actually finished both texts today, so I was slightly unprepared for class.

I had a ten minute meeting with the lecturer after class to present my idea for an essay. Her main advice was to be particular and not choose a too wide scope to study. It’s just an essay, after all, not a thesis.

Participated in the Article 13 demo on Saturday and interviewed people while S filmed. What an atmosphere! I think we caught it well in the 20 minute piece I put together. Editing, translating, exporting and uploading took all night – I left the studio at 5.30 in the morning, and so had quite a mellow Sunday with no machinima editing (as first planned).

Study

Theory and History of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Unit 12: Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropologies (Geertz)

  • Geertz, Clifford (1973): Chapter 15. Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight. In The Interpretation of Cultures, pp. 412-453.

Unit 13: Writing/Culture (Clifford/Marcus)

  • Clifford, James (1986): Introduction: Partial Truths. In Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus, pp. 1-26.

Other

Articles

  • The Economist: Oh **UK! What next for Brexit?
  • The Economist: A shadow over flight’s golden age
  • The Economist: Press freedom in Ethiopia has blossomed. Will it last?
  • The Economist: Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting makes a rightward tilt
  • The Economist: A Croatian inventor says he is building the world’s fastest car
  • The Economist: Proposals to tax pieds-à-terre in New York are gaining ground
  • The Economist: Why big tech should fear Europe
  • The Economist: The new face of terror, much like the old
  • The Economist: Regulatory capture may be responsible for Boeing’s recent problems
  • The Economist: Are Japan’s ubiquitous personal seals endangered?
  • Tropics of meta/Alex Sayf Cummings: The Case Against Bodies
  • Tagesspiegel: Nach Intersexuellen-Witz: Kramp-Karrenberger erklärt Debatte für beendet

Video

  • Google: Stadia GDC 2019 Gaming Announcement (60 min)
  • Sam Sheffer: MKBHD STUDIO TOUR 5.0! (20 min)
  • Erika Lust: It’s time for porn to change | TEDxVienna (2014, 13 min)
  • Various Eggboy videos

Podcasts

  • The Intelligence: Brexit postponed, cannabis and psychosis, and plate-sharing when negotiating
  • Mediepodden: Avsnitt 73: Så få digitala lyssnare har P1 – Pedofilklicken som stängt ned svenska youtubekonton

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About Karl Andersson

Karl Andersson is attending the MA Visual and Media Anthropology programme at Freie Universität Berlin. He has a background in journalism and is currently researching Japanese subcultures. 日本語で話せます!

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