Care is a system.
“To care about something is more than just happening to believe that something is valuable or to want or to desire something to be the case. Believing, wanting and desiring […]
I am a YouTube binger.
Beep: This post is video heavy. If you’d like to skip to the GOOD part, watch all the Game of Thrones covers at the end. End beep. There has been […]
LDRs and affective technologies
This year, I have been traveling a lot for work. I have grown used to asking for a table for one. And ordering ice-cream for one. I have known my […]
Politics, everyday life, and habitus.
After having spent ten days closely following political rallies and campaigns while tracking social media discourse out of academic interest, I took to the polls on Friday morning to cast […]
Political rallies and the tactility of collective effervescence.
I’m in the stands at a sports stadium watching a […]
Academia and arrested development.
Hello. My name is Crystal, and it has been ten days since I submitted my PhD thesis for grading. I finished my thesis on a Monday, printed it on a […]
Whoever said it takes a village to finish a PhD,
was probably an anthropologist trying to make a dad joke. […]
Academic precarity and transient intimacies in 28 Tweets.
A series of brainfarts about the most memorable ten-minute cab […]
Revelations from being at The Last Stretch:
A PhD is difficult. A thesis is difficult. Finishing is difficult. Self-doubt is normal. Inferiority complex is normal. Insecurity is normal. Sleep is good. Food is good. Fresh air is […]
Calling all anthropologists who do Internet research!
Dear anthropologists who do Internet-related research, I’m compiling key terms […]
Better static than stasis.
“On distance swims between two islands, I would sometimes stop mid-course to look around. To find myself equidistant between two points gave me the funniest feeling. To think that back […]
Resources on Memes
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So near yet so far.
I feel like I am not supposed to be saying this, but today I feel a bit like death. I reckon many of us near The End feel this way, […]
Airtime.
Every time I present my work, there is always a moment when I lapse into a transient reflexivity and wonder: 1) why I’m speaking so quickly 2) why people are […]
Week one at the DERC.
Hello from my first week at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), where I’ll be a Visiting Researcher for a month hosted […]
The Internet is my home.
I feel so disoriented at this point that I am convinced the only constant scape in my life is the Internet. There I know the buttons and the plumbing. Here […]
9 Murakami in 9 weeks.
I have a Murakami problem. I cannot stop consuming his words and immersing in his life worlds. It all began nine weeks ago when I decided that I could no […]
Bob.
“Weber is overrated. The only good thing he wrote was the Protestant Ethic. That really impacted society, how we thought about life. Every thing else was forgettable. He was a […]
force majeure.
This view to this earworm. I feel the need to take ten minutes away from coding and writing to catalogue some precious weekend memories before they seep out of my […]
The bigger picture.
Traveling as a grad student on a very tight budget: You book the cheapest mode of transport with the most transits at the most inconvenient hours. You cook your meals […]
Short-circuit.
Reflecting on how much I paid for this degree, my education is the most expensive thing I own but I’m not sure if it’s the most valuable. This is always […]
Behind the scenes: On surviving four days of viral hate.
On 23 March 2015, I published this post cataloging very […]
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