Data is currently dislocated – our narratives and metaphors around it try to convince us it is immaterial

Organic, Local, Artisan Data Storage

A discipline at the intersection of cultural anthropology and binary logic

A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology

Mary Douglas defined dirt as matter out of place – the crossing of boundaries

Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place

Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays

Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards

Visualising the cultural narratives around cultured meat

Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes

Longing for the paleolithic past in the Anthropocene

Paleolithic Nostalgia

How to offend everyone with boundary-crossing steak and nuggets

Problematic Proteins

A cultural analysis of the native behaviour of React developers

The Cultural Anthropology of React

An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web

The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web

Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives

A History of Cyborgs

A few favourite books from the field of digital anthropology

A Digital Anthropology Reading List

A collection of laws named for specific people in the field of programming

The Eponymous Laws of Programming

Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange

The Gift Economy

A collection of observations on the rise of soft, sparkly, baby pink aesthetics among developers

Pink, Soft, Glittering Developers

Notes from my podcast episode Open Source and Gift Economies on Maintainers Anonymous

A Chat with Henry Zhu on OSS & Gift Economies

Why there is nothing natural about the idea of 'nature'

Natureculture, Moral Purity, and Cultural Boundaries

A lightening talk I gave on second brains and cyborg embodiment

How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg

A collection of interesting words that have recently been coined

Neologisms

The written version of my talk on seeing tools for thought in historical perspective

Tools for Thought as Cultural Systems, not Computational Objects

The introduction to my thesis on the Quantified Self movement and the culture of self-tracking

Anthropology

Essays, notes, and patterns related to Anthropology