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FILTER RESULTS ►Savage Minds Interview: Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior is a writer for Al Jazeera English. She has a PhD in cultural anthropology from Washington University and researches the political effects of digital media in the former USSR. You can find her work at sarahkendzior.com, and on Twitter: @sarahkendzior Ryan Anderson: First of all, thanks for doing this interview. Let’s start […]
#Adderall: Positionality and Ethics in Social Media Research
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger TAZ KARIM In the past five years, Twitter has become a mecca for social science researchers: the number of topics, informants, and networks waiting to be analyzed are limitless (here are some examples). With the help of a nifty program like Tweet Archivist, you could literally collect thousands of micro-narratives […]
Dan Savage Isn’t Bothered By You Fantasizing About His Husband
Dan Savage knows you’ve been looking at those insanely hot photos of his husband modeling Mr. Turk swimwear, and he really doesn’t mind. In fact, he kinda likes it. In a recent interview with Xtra, Savage spoke about the nearly-nude photos of husband Terry Miller and how they came to be. Savage says Miller, a [...]
Hardships by Computer Jay
This video is beautiful. I really love Computer Jay's work. The passion and effort he puts into his music, video and programming boggle my mind. The 8bit style game he wrote to stand beside Savage Planet Discotheque is a lot of fun ...
Around the Web Digest
There hasn’t been an Around the Web Digest since the Savage Minds home site went down and we had to set up its temporary digs here. That means we’re over due for a round-up of February and March! You can receive (semi-)daily links via our twitter accnt @savageminds or by liking our Facebook page. If [...]
Magnificent Illustrations by Levente Peterffy
One of the greatest things about sci-fi games is the scenery. A dystopian future, a city destroyed by war, a savage land with many perils. It's great to know that the minds behind great art are so accessible, like Levente Peterffy.
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Against Open Access: A change of heart
Open Access (OA) has always been an issue that the contributors to Savage Minds have covered thoroughly. When I joined the SM crew, I too joined the chorus singing the praises of OA and calling for change in our publishing regimes. I spent a lot of time over the past year or so writing about [...]
SL Letter of the Day: Help Kate Bornstein Beat Cancer
This wasn't a letter sent to "Savage Love," but I don't think the author will mind my posting it as the "Savage Love" letter of the day. Kate Bornstein has cancer. The good news, direct from the team of skilled doctors on her case, is that the cancer is curable. Show More Summary
Temporary Home of Savage Minds
Till our regular site is back up (which could take days) we will be posting here. Why is Savageminds.org down? The short answer is that our webhost messed up big time. They are working on sorting out the issue and hopefully will get the regular site up soon. At that time we will re-import these [...]
Video: A-Mafia – On My Mind/Correct Me If I’m Wrong
Mafia drops off a new double video for “On My Mind” and “Correct Me If I’m Wrong”, both off his Straight Savage mixtape, which you can grab here. Previously: A-Mafia ft. Uncle Murda & Styles P – Cuban Connection
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Matthew Wolf-Meyer
Back in December, I started a conversation with the staff at Savage Minds about professionalization, particularly in relation to recent Ph.D. recipients who might be on the job market and who might also be adjuncting. While we often collectively bemoan the state of affairs around non-tenure track employment in academia, it seemed to me that [...]
Chagnon vs. Asch
It seems a lot of anthropologists have had cause to write angry letters in response to Chagnon’s latest book: Sahlins, Fuentes and Marks here on Savage Minds, and a host of others elsewhere (see Anthropology Report for a good rundown). But I thought Jay Ruby’s criticism was unique enough that it deserved it’s own post. [...]
Addendum to Chagnon in the NYT
In the fallout from Sahlins’ departure from the NAS and Rex’s coverage of it on Savage Minds, I noticed a conversation in a friend’s Facebook status about whether some biological anthropologist might write a letter to the editor contributing their voice and perspective. Letters had been written, it was alleged, but the papers had declined [...]
Sahlins resigns from NAS as Chagnon enters
Since David Graeber’s widely cited tweet on Saturday, Savage Minds has been able to confirm (read: Marshall sent me an email) that Marshall Sahlins has resigned from the National Academy of Sciences and that his resignation has been accepted. As Sahlins tells it, his main reason for the resignation is Chagnon’s election to the US’s National [...]
The Savage Beast
Predator Press
@SnarquisdeSade
With my lawyer arriving at 2:00, it's with some reluctance I conclude it's time to get up; even as the coffee pot gurgles, my mind struggles to find traction between the dreamworlds and reality. Good sleep...Show More Summary
Living in a Plain Text World (Tools We Use)
If you look through the archives of Savage Minds you will find a lot of posts that are seemingly unformatted. Most of these are by Rex, who was an early fan of Markdown, a "a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers" developed by John Gruber. Unfortunately, the plugin we were using to make those posts [...]
What do we know about struggle?
[This month, Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Donya Alinejad] “For the first time I feel like this is my university.” Over the past year, hearing this comment – and ones like it – from colleagues in the hallways has been no coincidence. This past year at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) has been marked by [...]
The Jared Diamond Wars Are on Again!
I see that the Savage Minders are back. Alex Golub: >How can we explain human variation? | Savage Minds: I’ve been struggling to find a way to blog regularly about Jared Diamond’s new book, The World Until Yesterday…. It begins with a set piece... Show More Summary
A Banner Year for Guest Bloggers
As the Savage Minds leviathan grows to evermore staggering heights in 2012, it’s inescapable pseudopods pulling anthropologists into its its membranes like some creature-feature villain crossed with the Dialectic of Enlightenment, we have had the privilege of hosting some truly excellent guest bloggers. Garrison used his experience in the anthropology of media to turn a [...]
Annual Highlights — 2012
Tis the season for list making! Looking back on Savage Minds Annual Highlights past I see that this regular feature is falling later and later with each passing year. So I felt it was in keeping with tradition that I wait until 2013. Looking back on the most popular posts of 2012 it seems that [...]
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- J.J. Abrams
- Jennifer Aniston
- Hangover Part III
- President Obama
- Morgan Freeman
- Cannes Film Festival
- Daft Punk
- Random Access Memories
- Lois Lerner
- Internal Revenue Service
- Samsung Galaxy S4
- Speed Rivals
- Worldwide Developers Conference
- Arrested Development
- Anthony Weiner
- Federal Reserve
- Man of Steel
- Boy Scouts of America
