[Air-L] Article on the digital and the real

[Tom Boellstorff]

Wonderful news, Scott—congratulations and I am flattered by your engaging with my work! All the best, Tom

tom boellstorff + professor + department of anthropology + university of california + irvine + website <http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/boellstorff/>




> On Sep 10, 2016, at 5:43 PM, Scott MacLeod <scott at scottmacleod.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tom and AoIR,
> 
> Here is my new book "Naked Harbin Ethnography" re virtual world
> generation, with Discount code here -
> http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - for
> https://www.createspace.com/6072369. (It comes into conversation with
> your, Tom, "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the
> Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008)).
> 
> It's also the first book published in the new Academic Press at World
> University and School, planned for all 7,943 languages, with machine
> translation. (World University and School seeks to become the "Harvards
> of the Web" in all ~200 countries, creating major online universities,
> and accrediting on CC MIT OpenCourseWare in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC.
> 
> Click on the Harbin Gate link in Google Street View part way down the
> book's main page to begin to visit Harbin online.
> 
> All the best, Scott
> 
> scottmacleod.com
> worlduniversityandschool.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/30/16 5:10 PM, Scott MacLeod wrote:
>> Tom (and AoIR),
>> 
>> Thanks very much, and fascinating!
>> 
>> My ~550 page actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs ethnographic book -
>> http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html (May 2016) -
>> due out in paper soon (in a new Academic Press at World University and
>> School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html -
>> planned in all 8k languages, with machine translation), addresses many
>> related questions.
>> 
>> I look forward to reading it closely, and re the "actual" anthropologically.
>> 
>> All the best,
>> Scott
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/30/16 4:09 PM, Tom Boellstorff wrote:
>>> Dear all: my article “For Whom the Ontology Turns: Rethinking the Digital Real” is now out in a pre-print version from Current Anthropology and is open access. Here is the link:
>>> 
>>> http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/687362
>>> 
>>> Even though this is published in an anthropology journal, I’ve really written it to speak to questions of the “real” with regard to digital technology and culture. I hope you enjoy it!
>>> 
>>> All the best, Tom Boellstorff
>>> 
>>> tom boellstorff + professor + department of anthropology + university of california + irvine + website <http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/boellstorff/>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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