Bonnie Nardi uses Dewey’s activity theory (never heard of this before the ethnography) to analyze World of Warcraft. Dewey’s theory allows us to conceive of online games (if I am to understand correctly) as an […]
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The Use and Abuse of History by Nietzsche
I was a little bit worried about this edition. In the Editor’s Introduction, the editor criticizes Nietzsche’s “gospel of the will to power” as something that has “unleashed bestiality in the name of the sanctity […]
Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas
This book by celebrated anthropologist Mary Douglas tackles one of the questions that I have a personal interest in: contagion and purity and danger. Lots of fertile ideas for understanding Korean ethno-nationalism, although its ideas […]
The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz
A great practitioner’s manual to foresight through scenarios. Scenarios are stories that foresight practitioners construct to provide a context for decisions in the future. These are not mere extrapolations, but serve also as a vision […]
A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway
Haraway is in conversation with a lot of feminist theory and proposes the figure of the cyborg to consider a new politics. Writing in the 1980s, the cyborg was merely an incipient fantasy, but Haraway’s […]
My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft
Another ethnography of online spaces; read this a couple of months ago. Bonnie Nardi uses Dewey’s activity theory (never heard of this before the ethnography) to analyze World of Warcraft. Dewey’s theory allows us to […]
Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami
What an imagination—and if not wrested out from the imagination to be put on a blank page, what a life! Ryu Murakami’s Almost Transparent Blue shook me violently, coming from Kawabata as I was. The novel […]
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Basho
I was reading this six months ago when I was stuck in Paris for some weeks (thought I lost my passport). What an epic journey it must have been for Basho, the renowned Japanese poet, […]
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima | Japan book reviews
A strange story that could not have been written by anyone else other than Mishima. A group of five teenagers raised in solidly middle class families form a gang joined by a sense of nihilistic discontent […]
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
After reading Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, I wanted to learn more about Japanese aesthetics and the inspiration for Kawabata’s writing technique. In Praise of Shadows by renownede Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki elaborates on Japanese […]
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