With a hat tip to Mike Innes at the CTLab.

Well, I’m certainly not a Luddite, but I do have some concerns with this.  My main concern is that this type of technology, while useful, will act as a memory replacement.  Yes, I know, Socrates said the same thing about writing.
My concern is somewhat similar to [...]

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The many woes of the HTS, at least the public casting and presentation of them, have been ably collated by my colleague Max Forte at Open Anthropology (e.g. here, here and here amongst many other places).  What truly bothers me, in addition to Pravda being considered as a reputable publisher < rolleyes>, is that the [...]

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I just got back from a six day concert tour in Mexico sponsored by the Orquesta del Nuevo Mundo in Mexico City.  It was an intriguing experience in many ways and, as I was sitting in the Toronto airport waiting to find out if I would get home again, a number of thoughts wended their [...]

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The past couple of months have been insanely busy, and the pace will keep up for the next month at least.  Part of this comes from the “usual” things (teaching, writing, consulting, etc.), but a lot of it, for the past couple of weeks and the next two weeks, comes from a hectic concert schedule [...]

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Galrahn over at Information Dissemination, just produced another brilliant piece on the realities of 21st century networks called The Challenges of the 21st Century Conversation.  While the subject of the post is US Naval “evangelists” (”Champions” in business terms), the post itself examines the complex interplay between narrative, myth, discourse control and the role of [...]

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CTlab member Brian Glyn Williams, PhD, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, recently testified as an expert witness for the defence in the trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, “Bin Laden’s Driver”, in the first US military tribunal since World War II. He has since been interviewed about the case on National [...]

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“The question comes down to how we can as artists make the case to Canadians that the arts deserves healthy vigorous funding,” S. Randy Boyagoda, a novelist and a professor of literature based at Ryerson University, said on Thursday.
Source CBC.ca
Canada seems to have a love-hate relationship with the Arts.  On the one hand, certain arts [...]

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One of the things I was trying to do with my Notes towards a Theory of Asymmetric Warfare posts was to broaden the notion of “conflict” to that of “competition”.  I feel that this is important to do for a number of reasons including, but certainly not limited to, the fact that people tend to [...]

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One of the more fascinating things about the way humans seem to work is that we will frequently do pretty much the same thing while changing the labels and conveniently forgetting that we did it before. We seem to have “default” processes for a number of things including myth. For Anthropologists, “myth” doesn’t [...]

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For over a year, I have been using the term “Witch Hunts”to refer to the actions of some people who are violently opposed to the existence on the Human Terrain System. It is important that people realize that when I use that term, it is not being used in the normal meaning of political [...]

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