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Coronavirus & Academia

Camus The Plague Coronavirus COVID-19

Academia should be at the forefront of imagining more radical possibilities for going beyond our current coronavirus crisis.

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Farmers & Foodies of the Future (FFF)

Seguin - Around Quitting Time - Farmers Foodies Future

Sustainable production of food will in the future require more of us to be involved in the process. The world is going to need a lot more farmers & food makers.

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What should you do?

Fast Easy Cash - If the United States Collapses

We seem to be living through a process of declining US hegemony. However, if the United States collapses as an event rather than a process, what’s the plan?

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What if people stop funding the US?

Graeber - Debt - When will the US run out of money

The United States is running nearly one trillion dollar annual deficits, piling onto a mountain of existing debt. What happens if people stop funding the U.S.?

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Collapse and/or Authoritarianism

Apocalypse Metamorphosis - When will US government collapse

The US Executive & Legislative branches are non-functioning institutions. Even scarier, they risk authoritarian takeover in a political or economic crisis.

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When will the US Stock Market Collapse?

Eriksen - Overheating - When will the stock market collapse

The first indicator we could be headed for a collapse in the United States may be a US stock market collapse. Translating from CNBC, it does look dire.

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Hackonomy

Bough - Hackonomy

Bonin Bough’s lecture at Hartwick College on “Hackonomy” paralleled themes in Introduction to Anthropology and Cultural Ecology.

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Categories Anthropology Blogs Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, planning 20 Comments

Blocking Trump

Federalist Papers - Electoral College Blocking Trump

In 2016, the Electoral College should have stopped Trump from becoming president. In 2019, blocking Trump depends on impeachment.

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Is the State Relevant?

Anthropology of the State

Globalization was supposed to render the national state irrelevant. Such claims had already been disproved by an anthropology of the state.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, fieldwork, gun violence, immigration, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, occupy, planning, political economy, politics, racism 9 Comments

Irony, Paradox, Uncertainty

Advertising Missionaries

Pairing “Advertising Missionaries” with “A Fragmented Globality” to ask “What, if anything, is truly new about our times?” (Trouillot 2003:47)

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, human nature, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, occupy, planning, political economy, textbooks 15 Comments

Anthropology Is Your Ally

Wallerstein - End of the World as We Know It - Social Science and Humanities

An impassioned plea to lower the arrogance decibels. In the wake of Steven Pinker’s “Science Is Not Your Enemy” assessing humanities & science together.

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Anthropology: Best Major to Change Your Life

Casino Capitalism - Anthropology Major College Major

Check out an Anthropology Major! It’s the worst college major for instant pay, but best major to change your life. And Anthropology can change the world.

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Walmart Socialism

Utopia-Dystopia - Walmart Socialism

On using the informational-distributional capacities of Walmart to enact a sensible and sustainable future, Walmart Socialism and Utopia.

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Toward a Public & Green Economy

Inside Job - Expropriate Goldman Sachs Green Economy

We need public borrowing and job creation for a green economy. Expropriate Goldman-Sachs to bypass political impasse via public ownership.

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Rural Solutions

Hartwick College’s symposium on “Rural Solutions: Economic Development on a Human Scale.” Keynote with Michael Shuman, author of Local Dollars, Local Sense.

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Beyond Capitalism

Beyond Capitalism - Political Ecologies

Boone Shear and Brian Burke organized a special track for alternative political ecologies for 2012 Applied Anthropology, seeking to go Beyond Capitalism.

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Four Field Manifesto

Communist Manifesto - Anthropology, Moral Optimism, Capitalism - Four Fields Manifesto

Anthropology’s Moral Optimism: Four Field Manifesto & alternative visions of humanity. Capitalism is not the most beautiful or respectful of shared planet.

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Anthropology & Occupy Wall Street

Debt - Occupy Wall Street

In October 2011, the anthropological blogosphere coalesced around supporting Occupy Wall Street. But why is there not a similar movement in 2019?

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Government Planning & Anthropology

Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform - Government Planning

Anthropology should stand against the ideologues insisting government planning is inherently flawed.

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