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.)

Thursday, 9 April 2020

On exponentials and the return to normality

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I have avoided saying anything about the Covid-19 crisis in my capacity as an anthropologist, because I think that anthropology is an empiri...

Friday, 24 January 2020

Wie, es gab eine Revolution?

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Vielleicht eignen sich Niederlagen besonders gut für politische Mythen, denn sie umgibt eine Aura von Reinheit. Sie sind unbesudelt von d...

Wednesday, 12 December 2018

The power of God. A lecture

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Update: the long written version is now online: Samuli Schielke. 2019. "The power of God: Four proposals for an anthropological engagem...

Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Secular powers and heretic undercurrents in a God-fearing world. A Lecture

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In this lecture - which you find as a transcript and an audio link below - I think together some of my fieldwork in Egypt, and a critical ...

Friday, 20 July 2018

Ist was Kultur?

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Als feedback auf meinen kürzlich auf Zenith erschienenen Beitrag gegen Panikmache über Migration und sexuelle Gewalt, erhielt ich einen seh...

Friday, 6 July 2018

Anthropologies of destiny

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(PS. The text of my afterword to the special issue is available for free download at http://www.samuli-schielke.de/destiny_as_a_relationsh...

Tuesday, 3 July 2018

The Delicate Regress

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This text by the poet Bassem Mohamed Abu Gweily whom I'm happy to call a friend, strikes me as exemplary of some new spiritual developme...

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