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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