“Christian Alan Anderson”:http://omnivoyage.org/about_chris.htm

Includes publications. Note to self, note to self, note to self.

“Nations and Identities: Classic Readings”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/063122209X/ref=s9sips_c6_14_at3-rfc_p-3237_p_si3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1KC0P6YR9VF189W7XM3T&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463383351&pf_rd_i=507846

“Becoming National: A Reader”:http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-National-Reader-Geoff-Eley/dp/0195096614/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226457781&sr=1-1

Kiri has “another article on GTA”:http://digiplay.info/node/3214

Digiplay in fact has a “listing of articles on WoW”:http://digiplay.info/search/node/warcraft most of which I know about, but not all of them.

Every couple of months I relink to “Henry Lowood’s page:”http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood/vita.htm and his “cool courses”:http://www.stanford.edu/class/filmstud203a/html/schedule.htm so I don’t forget about them.

Tanya Krzywinska has been busy with “another anthology about games”:http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/book.asp?id=1100.

Ok that is it for now.

And on the ‘early modern europe/history of knowledge about the colonies’ theme: “Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe”:http://books.google.com/books?id=BiXjSTNLWIEC&pg=PA335&vq=recapturing+anthropology&lr=&source=gbs_search_s&sig=ACfU3U1bKYUd2unE23NXNQQFlfgVGr3eVQ#PPP1,M1

David Kyuman Kim is the leading philosopher of religion and culture of his generation. The breadth of his synthetic imagination, the scope of his scholarly knowledge and the depth of his poetic wisdom is amazing. How rare it is to see such delicate style, nuanced analysis and robust vision in one figure and text in our compartmentalized academy and terrorized society. His dark hope summons us!

I must admit that no one on my dissertation committee thought that I offered hope of any sort, much less the dark sort that summons people.

More seriously, though: although I do not know Kim, his name and the fact that he has a Th.D. from a div school… am I being stereotypically reductive in suggesting that we have found someone to be the Korean Christian version of Patchen Markell? Perhaps it is presumptuous of me to guess at Kim’s faith, but this combination of subject position, obvious intelligence, and philosophical projects sounds really enticing to me. So… I will have to check it out.

At the same time, there are the usual projects that continue to follow me around: “Early Kinship”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1405179015/ref=pe_5050_9414170_pe_snp_015 edited by Wendy James looks interesting, as does the new edition of “Identity and Control”:http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8672.html. Over at Savage Minds I’ve been turned on to “Malcolm McCullough”:http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mmmc/ and I have to admit I’m curious to see what Habermas has to say about “religion and science”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0745638252/ref=s9sims_c2_img1-rfc_g1-2991_g1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0E52FKZ118AKSTTM5QHA&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=320448701&pf_rd_i=507846 — apparently this is a topic he’s taken up with the “Pope”:http://www.amazon.com/Dialectics-Secularization-Reason-Religion/dp/1586171666/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b. There are other things, further afield. I am not sure how successful this book on “taxidermy and colonialism”:http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/W/wakeham_taxidermic.html will be, although this “collection on consumption in the 17th and 18th century”:http://www.amazon.com/Consumption-World-Goods-Culture-Centuries/dp/0415114780/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product fields a lot of winners.

“The Social Effects of Native Title”:http://epress.anu.edu.au/c27_citation.html another superb ANU Eprint.

“Double Whammy of Disadvantage”:http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/16/first — some stats on the difficulty of staying in college if you are working and disadvantaged.

“David Price’s new book on anthropologists at war is out”:http://www.amazon.com/Anthropological-Intelligence-Deployment-American-Anthropology/dp/0822342375/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213370883&sr=8-1

“Danielle Allen on citizenship.”:http://www.amazon.com/Talking-Strangers-Anxieties-Citizenship-Education/dp/0226014673/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product

“The Age of American Unreason”:http://www.amazon.com/Age-American-Unreason-Susan-Jacoby/dp/0375423745/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213352457&sr=8-1

“Quiet Desperation of Academic Women”:http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/12/women

“The Last Professors”:http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/11/lastprofs

K that’s enough for now.

“New Mexico’s Crypto-Jews: Image and Memory”:http://www.amazon.com/New-Mexicos-Crypto-Jews-Image-Memory/dp/0826342892

Also one strange (possibly wonderfully so) archeology journal: “Time and Mind”:http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/tmdj including “Biblical enthogens: a speculative hypothesis”:http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/tmdj/2008/00000001/00000001/art00004: “I am a
Jew who, though not observant, ?nds the Jewish textual heritage to be personally very meaningful. Following my experiences with Ayahuasca, I came to regard various aspects of the Jewish heritage from a new perspective…”

What I meant to say is: damn, if you had to own only one book by Philip K. Dick, “this would be the one”:http://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dick-Stigmata-Eldritch/dp/1598530097/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1205824664&sr=11-1 — the price is right (US$24) and the selection is superb. I imagine the intro from Lethem would be pretty good as well. If you’ve never read PKD before, go out and get this volume and put it under your pillow.

Or what would be your pillow if you didn’t exist solely as a paranoid fantasy of my own mind.