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This week's IPA Substack features an excerpt from Paul O'Connor's new book Technocracy: Knowledge and Power in the Information Age, just out with Routledge as part of the Contemporary Liminality series
The Faroe Islands were the first stepping stone for Viking exploration of the Atlantic. But some archaeologists now think that they weren’t the first to reach the isles, and that the “writings of mad Irish monks” are worth paying closer attention to.
https://t.co/eVJVIIsF2R
At the Hypermodernity substack, Paul O'Connor argues that alongside such familiar sociological descriptors as ‘capitalist’, ‘globalised’ or ‘post-industrial’, we must recognise that hypermodern society is preeminently mannagerial.
On the IPA Substack, Arpad Szakolczai writes about the conditions of possibility of neoliberal neocommunism and a possible way out: https://t.co/a2JMSouTIf
Arpad Szakolczai writes on Substack about the disconcerting similarities between the managerial takeover of universities and the methods of communist regimes:
https://t.co/EEIxECQdO4
Alicia Stevens explores the logic of “fast merit” within the ruling military command structure in contemporary Myanmar. Read her article in the latest issue of IPA: https://t.co/eeGvLPi86D
They conclude that such a reconsideration of the sociological tradition opens the way to reconceptualising love as a foundational category of social life. Read their article in full in the latest edition of International Political Anthropology: https://t.co/LC5o0oUcAp
In ‘Reasons of the Heart: Repositioning Love in Sociology’, Bjørn Thomassen & Andreas Bandak bring together attempts in classical and more recent sociology that from various angles have engaged the question of love.
Calling all ethnographic poets! We invite proposals from members or prospective members of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) to serve as Poetry Editor for Anthropology & Humanism. For more info & to apply: https://t.co/707RXyXd6z
Wonderful IPA conference on liminality, disease and politics 20th and 21st May organised by the editors and supported by @Uccsoc https://t.co/Pu1oE1kkgB with fab speakers including @mcgovernRL @kierankeohane @ChrisRojek