A book of unfinished theories

by Samuli Schielke. (From 2011 until 2014 this blog carried the title "You'll be late for the revolution!" An Anthropologist's Diary of the Egyptian Revolution and what followed.)

Friday, 25 May 2012

Some social science of the presidential elections

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I have usually avoided writing on this blog when not in Egypt, because its value, if any, lies in the proximity to events, moods, and every...

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Saturday, 14 April 2012

The presidential theatre

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(Addition, 15 April in the morning: Oh the pleasure of getting it all wrong again. Just hours after I wrote this note, the supreme elector...

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Friday, 9 March 2012

Amshir

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Today is the last day of the Coptic month of Amshir, a month that is known for stormy and unpredictable weather, bringing cold weather in on...

Monday, 30 January 2012

Writing anthropology of and for the revolution

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Exactly one year after the I began writing this blog, here a more self-reflective essay about my experience of engaged anthropology, written...

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Sunday, 11 December 2011

Fantasy, action and the possible in 2011

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This essay is about Lenin, Tahrir, Islamists, poetry, choice and destiny in an attempt to provide some sort of theoretical synthesis of a co...

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Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Jakob Lindfors writing: Continuous Elections – Until Victory!

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The following note about the first day of parliamentary elections in Egypt was written by Jakob Lindfors who was friendly enough to allow me...

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