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I keep forgetting their names – Victor Turner and Clifford Geertz … In 1993, I was planning to become an casual athropologist… I remember the stuff on ritual was closely connected with festivals – often when there was a temporary inversion of social structure/order… The poor dressed up as the rich in big parades funded [...]

Watch out Does this mean more suicide bombers and machete wielding tall black men? Or a new generation equipped with a deep understanding of what it means to be on the outside and know how to win the hearts and minds of a scared minority and introduce the ideas and knowledge needed to re-shape how [...]

I haven’t read much critiques of internet activism/protest – and here’s a good article to consider. Yet even if the internet doesn’t always bring people out onto the streets, its adherents have another, subtler argument. For democracy to succeed, they say, you need civil movements to help make protests more intense, frequent and well-attended. A [...]

I am not so sure. The dull blog format work because as users we are relatively dull – I reckon. Consistency helps find information, or evaluate whether we want to read past the first sentence. Formatting a blog like a magazine, where potentially every post has a different look and feel is nice, and in [...]

Google are doing some very interesting research in to visual recognition … So much for putting up weird codes on billboards. Check out article at TechCrunch Today, at their Search Event in Mountain View, Google demoed a brand new product set to launch in Google Labs: Google Goggles. Humorous name aside, the product looks to [...]