By Christopher Marcatili McGavin, Kirsten (ed.). 2022. World Beyond: An anthology of Papua New Guinean Speculative Fiction. Sydney, Aus: Hibiscus…
“Jibaro” makes me wonder if we should listen more closely to the call of Sirens. This 17 minute long, Love Death Robots episode has me asking if the intent of such creatures of folklore is truly malicious. Have we been championing a different evil all along? Are there not wicked motives shifting beneath the surface of those sailors and knights who pillage all that is gold and shimmering from the bodies of the powerful creatures they capture?”
By Samuel Gerald Collins Patkin, Terri Toles (2021). Who’s in the Game? Identity and Intersectionality in Classic Board Games. Jefferson, North Carolina:…
I’ve yet to meet an academic who is not a geek. What it means to be either an academic or…
While I admire the decision to try to help each of Spidey’s foes—particularly since the Avengers have never met a problem they don’t try to punch their way out of—the curative ideal that Spiderman peddles tells us a lot about how the US in particular addresses public health problems, the medical and social ills that the country chooses to “cure” or address through vertical, top-down tactics.
The Geek Anthropologist 