I’m trying out some new themes…
Marc | February 16, 2009
I was getting bored with the old look of the site, so I will be playing around with new themes for the next little bit.
In Harmonium
Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist
Where’s Drew?
Marc | February 10, 2009
In case anyone was wondering why Drew hasn’t been around making comments, it’s because he is over in Afghanistan. He is doing a form of micro-blogging on his trip at CycloneFanatic.com His latest post is available at http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum/off-topic/50014-culture-etc.html
Filling in at the CTLab
Marc | January 26, 2009
I am begining to think I have a rubber arm – Mike Innis just convinced me to fill in for him for a couple of weeks over at the CT Lab and, for some reason, I agreed. If you are not familiar with the CT Lab, you should check it out. While still somewhat of [...]
Looking back, looking forward
Marc | January 2, 2009
The month of January is named after the Roman god Janus. Janus’ imagerery of looking back and looking forward stems from his association with the mid-winter festival and, in part, gives rise to why we place our year starting on January 1st (there are other reasons, too). Personally, I have never been a big fan [...]
Evaluating …. what?
Marc | December 22, 2008
It certainly seems as if my previous post on the idea of evaluating the HTS caused a fair bit of reaction on both theoretical and epistemological grounds. I thought it would be worthwhile to pull out some of the ideas I talked about in that post a little more. And, I’ll admit, that I was [...]
Limited blogin for the next few days
Marc | October 2, 2008
I’ve been heavily involved with the Hamdan Symposium over at the CT Lab, and a lot of the time I had for blogging (which isn’t all that mch ) is being taken up over there for now. Things should get back to normal over the weekend.
“Wheels within wheels”
Marc | September 7, 2008
Years ago, when I was researching Western Magic, I came across a then-obscure book called the Kybalion (my copy is from the 1940′s). It is a masterpiece of the esoteric genre; a genre designed to hide information in “plain sight”. Reading the comments on Wired in response to Steve Featherstone’s recent Harpers article brought the [...]
Competition in workspaces – a non-kinetic example
Marc | August 31, 2008
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 [...]
Notes towards a theory of asymmetric conflict, part 2
Marc | August 14, 2008
[This continues from the previous post] Linking battle/workspaces into perceptual topologies In a recent article, Raphaël Baeriswyl, drawing heavily on the work of Jacques Baud, argues that there are six distinct “battlespaces”: topographic space (land, sea), airspace, electromagnetic space, cyberspace, infospace, and human space. Each of these battlespaces has emerged as technological advances has shifted [...]
More FP silliness
Marc | August 11, 2008
Last month, Hugh Gusterson published an article in Foreign Policy entitled When Professors go to War that sparked a fair bit of commentary. This article just sparked a new exchange on the FP site. First, Peter D. Feaver at Duke, responded with a rebuttal called Pentagon Funding? Bring it on. In which he characterizes Gustersons’ [...]
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