Recent obituaries for the late doyen of cultural studies, who also greatly influenced material culture studies, Professor Stuart Hall, have appeared in the Jamaica Observer and the Guardian. A founding member of the New Left Review, Professor Hall is probably best known in the UK as an inaugural member ofContinue Reading
Ryan Schram, University of Sydney The 2013 session of the Parliament of Papua New Guinea (PNG) ended with drama from an unexpected place. After months of stories from PNG of mobs and armed gangs torturing women and men they accused of sorcery, and a campaign of symbolic mourning by womenContinue Reading
Taylor and Francis publish the results of their survey of 14,700 authors into a series of infographics:Continue Reading
… and the continuing legacy of Native appropriations in American fashion. By Emily McGoldrick (Independent Scholar, New York City) When Nike unveiled their Pro Tattoo line of women’s workout gear this summer, a wave of protest followed. The small collection included a sports bra, exercise tights, and a bodysuit decoratedContinue Reading
Luciana Martins, Director, Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies,Birkbeck College, London The completion in September of a four-year AHRC-funded research project into Andean textiles, Weaving Communities, creates a unique and innovative resource for archaeologists, anthropologists, museum curators, contemporary weavers and the fashion industry. Until now, researchers have had toContinue Reading
A recent article, courtesy of Raymond June (@raymondjune), on a new effort in South Australia Museum which archives and makes accessible 30,000 artefacts of aboriginal material culture in Australia. To learn more about this ambitious new exhibition, read the article here.Continue Reading
Via Fred Myers, NYU Linguists and indigenous communities in the Northern Territory have launched an online dictionary for indigenous sign languages. The Site, http://iltyemiltyem.com/sign/, contains several hundred video clips of signs for public view. You can listen to a radio program about the initiative here: Indigenous sign language on the web –Continue Reading
At the BBC an article discussing the growing movement to re-evaluate the significance of the wheelchair access icon. Critics and activists are proposing a symbol that is more dynamic, than the passive sitting person in the old icon. The Accessible Icon Project: provides supplies and services to transform the old International SymbolContinue Reading
The Interference Archive is an activist archive of political ephemera from radical social movements in the USA and around the world. Activist not only because of the subject matter of its collections but also in the way it is organized as a collection. Based in Gowanus, Brooklyn, and running on aContinue Reading
Great piece on the Big Data movement by Kate Crawford in Foreign Policy entitled “Think Again: Big Data, Why the rise of machines isn’t all its cracked up to be”Continue Reading
From the Jewish Museum Blog: Marc Adelman’s Stelen (Columns) (2007–11) was included in The Jewish Museum exhibitionComposed: Identity, Politics, Sex (Dec. 23, 2011–June 30, 2012). The work comprises a set of photographs Adelman found on a gay dating website. Following a published review of the exhibition, the Museum received complaints from several people whose profile picturesContinue Reading