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, 22 February 2024

Peace as a Local Exception

I. 22nd century, another planet In an unfinished science fiction novel by Arkadi and Boris Strugatski, the hero of an earlier novel travel...

Monday, 21 June 2021

On Exiles and Alternatives: An Afterword

by Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Saad Shehata On 5 July, our new book Shared Margins: An Ethnography with Writers in Alexandria will be pub...

Thursday, 9 April 2020

On exponentials and the return to normality

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?

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

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