Selections from the Web:

Bartlett, Flora Mary. 2020. “Beer Can Photography.” Anthropology News. November 16.

Dzenovska, Dace. 2020. “Emptiness and Order.” Fieldsites. December 15.

Kumar, M.K. and Sou Mi. 2020. “Farmers Unions in India Call for National General Strike Dec. 8.” Left Voice. December 7.

Willems, Adam. “Startup ‘Cults.’” Real Life. December 17.

Books and Journal Articles:

Books:

Tevis, Walter. 1983. The Queen’s Gambit. New York: Vintage Books.

Usdin, Steven T. 2005. Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Journal Articles:

Collins, Samuel Gerald and Matthew Slover Durington. 2020. “The case for letting anthropology be quarantined: COVID and the end of ethnographic presence” entanglements 3 (2): 92–96.

Sperber, Joshua. 2020. “The Commodifications of Online Cooperation.” Monthly Review 72 (6): 40–49.

Žižek, Slavoj. 2021. “Is Barbarism with a Human Face Our Fate?” Critical Inquiry 47: S4–S8.

Films:

[↻ = Rewatch]

Land and Freedom (1995)

Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)

First Cow (2019)

Meek’s Cutoff (2010)

On the Rocks (2020)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

Under The Sun (2015)

Old Joy (2006)

Klaus (2019)

Elf (2003) ↻

Napoleon Dynamite (2004) ↻

El abrazo de la serpiente (2015) ↻

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Image: Taylor R. Genovese, December 27, 2020, Coronado National Memorial, Arizona.