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Andrew Alan Johnson

@andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social
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Anthropologist at Stockholm University. Senior historian, Firaxis. Water, ghosts, ruins, games. สนใจเรื่องไทย แม่น้ำโขง andrewalanjohnson.com www.dukeupress.edu/mekong-dreaming

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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 14h
Conversations I have with Swedes follow this trend. “I admire the US and would like to visit [cool place], but I am worried about being detained at the airport. Maybe when Trump is gone.”
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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Congratulations to Professors Morris and Rutherford, and thank you for these extraordinary books! This year's Senior Book Prize committee consisted of Mohamad Junaid, Amira Mittermaier, and Adriana Petryna. Huge thanks to our committee for their work on and commitment to this scholarship.
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Georges Bataille, Erotism (1957)
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In Anthropology News, Wenner-Gren President Danilyn Rutherford and others respond to the, "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences." Read it now! www.anthropology-news.org/topics/anthr...
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Anthropology Defended Archives - Anthropology News
Jeff Maskovsky, Emily Metzner
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jess @jessfrom.online · 24/09/2026
 “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
― William Gibson, Count Zero
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Similar stories: I (graciously) accepted the “take the flight next morning, we’ll get you a hotel and give you cash” deal from delta once (JFK-ARN). I get out of the gate and find out: -they lost my bag -my replacement flight is out of Newark -they do not have transportation
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Congratulations to my brilliant colleague Sophie Chao: last week an ARC Future Fellowship for 4 years, this week a University Research Excellence & Inclusion Prize - Thompson. The Prize is awarded to high-performing women for researcher development @arc-gov-au.bsky.social @acadsocsci.bsky.social
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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Breaking: this is huge for the people of #Myanmar - a telecommunication company from Norway (Telenor) has been charged in court with aiding crimes against humanity after the attempted coup of 1 Feb 2021. they had handed over customer data to the military. #accountability www.ft.com/content/4b9a...
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Telenor charged with aiding crimes against humanity in Myanmar
Norwegian authorities say telecoms group handed sensitive customer data to military junta in wake of 2021 coup
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not often in agreement the @wsj.com but am here: "Want to Succeed in an AI World? Study Anthropology" www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
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Want to Succeed in an AI World? Study Anthropology
College students and workers alike are finding a new set of skills is needed for a rapidly changing workplace.
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reading this site, I realize I’m old. 9/11 was a defining moment for me. I was evacuated from work and climbed to the roof to watch the smoke rise. I did not feel patriotic, but vulnerable. Afterwards, the paper jingoism of GWB radicalized me. It looked like fascism. And here we are.
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Interview with the Geek Anthropologist now out! thegeekanthropologist.com/2026/09/09/c...
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Civilization and Gaming Anthropology: An Interview with Andrew Alan Johnson
TGA Managing Editor Emma Backe interviewed Andrew Alan Johnson, an anthropologist who also serves as the Senior Historian for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII. They talk about working in the gami…
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here’s a simple life hack. If you’re waiting on a delivery window, the way to make the driver show up immediately is to get into the shower
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Academic career path. I’ve lived, and not just visited: 🇺🇸 🇹🇭 🇰🇷 🇸🇬 🇫🇮 🇩🇰 🇮🇳 🇸🇪. And I am also very very tired.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Those mountains are older than the concept of trees and bones and you WILL respect them
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I’ve just published a new article on the ethnography of the weird, looking at ghosts, dreams, and what it means to take ethnography seriously. Out in Cultural Anthropology, open access. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
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View of Encounters at the Edge of Night: An Ethnography of the Weird | Cultural Anthropology
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Partial eclipse in Stockholm
A crescent sun in an orange sky obscured by clouds
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Pretty clearly it’ll be this guy
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is the stuff. Right here. This is a relevant issue small enough to fix, but huge enough to make a difference. This is how local governance should be.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Colleges should not have athletics. period. DI and DII athletics programs are a financial drain on universities. Competitive sports bears no relation to our academic mission. Take that $ and give it to expanding need-based financial aid. #edusky #academicsky
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94% of Division I Athletics Programs Lost Money
Minnesota State at Mankato trims 60 jobs, U. of Alaska cuts out-of-state tuition, and visa limits pose revenue risk.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It's interesting moving from West Virginia, where all the industrial jobs getting offshored to places like Thailand created a certain Rust Belt vibe growing up, to suburban Bangkok where all the industrial jobs getting offshored to China has created a very similar Rust Belt-y atmosphere
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Here’s the plan: 1) more sausages in games. Better cheese. 2) smoking now mandatory. Techno or jazz now mandatory. 3) all characters wear tracksuits. 4) philosophical deep dives in every game, regardless of genre
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State (1998)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Important correction to a number of posts I have seen today: Your grandfather did not leave you PS2 games, he left you stamps. There is no such thing as a “childhood Wii U.” The Wii U came out two years ago. There is no such thing as 00s dad rock. Dad rock is from the 1970s.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Continuing on the ethnography kick, we now move on to @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social's Ghosts of the New City about the unsettled physical and spiritual landscapes of post-97 crash Chiang Mai, a city I'm looking forward to learning more about
The cover of the book "Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai" with a picture of a crumbling building in front of lush mountain greenery
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Weekly Read is "Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations" by @drgokcegunel.bsky.social, which analyzes how inventive infrastructure embodies broader imaginations of energy futures. Read it for free thanks to the De Gruyter eBound Foundation. buff.ly/QICbbIj
Cover of Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations by Gökçe Günel. The cover is a solid navy blue with a line drawing resembling a ship in white. The line drawing also features a plug. All text is written in a sans serif light blue font. The title is centered at the top of the cover and the subtitle appears below. The author’s name is in the bottom right.
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Khun Chang Khun Phaen: sex, war, magic, love triangles.
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This goes for us grown-ups too. Read outside of your comfort zone. Read outside your favorite genres. Read in another language. For me, this year I got into Miranda July and Moshfegh - not “my” genres. And loved them. I try to read in French and Thai as much as I can.
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Film you’ve watched more than six times. Hard mode. youtu.be/mnOLUnExHvw?...
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A Hundred Years of Safety - Delta's 2025 Centennial Safety Video
YouTube video by Delta
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Before he was Prufrock, he was ... J. ALFRED."
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“But the Odyssey was successful and a win over the right-wing chuds who are awful! We can’t critique it for not getting the nuance in the poem!” ^ This is a Calvinist take. “There are absolutely good people and absolutely evil people and we need to defend the good and shun the evil.”
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 27/07/2026
People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Finally went on vacation
An alpine hut in a pastureThe interior of a small mountain chapelReally tired looking guy who is very happy but doesn’t look it standing in front of a peak. It’s me, I’m the guyA lake from way way way way way way way above
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Actual diversity in academic departments doesn’t line up with political stances. It’s more like “I’m reading Buddhist critiques of existentialism; she’s doing economic anthropology; he’s doing Kristeva and horror. We three are in charge of the speaker series.”
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HK Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察 @hklabourrights.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We joined 58 other press freedom and human rights organisations, including@rsf.org in urging Thailand to halt the deportation of Chinese investigative journalist Bai Zhaodong. Bai faces risk of political persecution, arbitrary detention and torture if returned to #China. Journalism is not a crime.
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
youtu.be/9aJITLFLM30?...
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Stravinsky - Rite of Spring (2/2): II. The Sacrifice
YouTube video by Yale Symphony Orchestra
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"Grift" is entirely accurate here. An academic expert in my field would normally go for $500-$1k. A mid-range person (like me) might go for $0-$500. $50k is unthinkable, both to ask for and to give. These kinds of fees are why Turning Point, CR etc couldn't get speakers to campus, not "woke."
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Really great post from Pamela Corey, writing for the MoMA, on the Mekong and art (and really happy to see my own work cited here)! post.moma.org/mekong-and-m...
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Mekong and Metaphor: Contemporary Art and Regionality in Southeast Asia - post
Alongside technocratic and geopolitical frames, other epistemologies exist [for understanding the Mekong]. For riverine communities, the Mekong holds cosmological significance and yields situated know...
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 18/07/2026
James Cameron's Aliens was released 40 years ago today. 40 years of Burke.
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Ripley to Burke: Which Species is Worse?
Alt: Ripley to Burke: Which Species is Worse?
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I have no idea what this is referring to, but, yeah, learning new vocab (โดยเฉพาะคำศัพท์ไทย) in books is a key part of growing as a person.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Running theory. McConnell (red candles burning at hospital bedside. Chanting in the background): “Lindsay. I’m gonna need one more job from ya, before I go. See, someone’s got to open the door for me. Someone’s got to prepare a place of arrival.”
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Jordan Mychal Lockhart (Lemos) @extrajordanary.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
3. No, the blurry looking leaked screenshots or footage wasn't on purpose. Marketing plans a rollout way in advance and you want people's first impression of your game to be the best looking. 4. No, that content wasn't cut out to sell DLC. It may end up in DLC, but it wasn't cut for that purpose.
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Mariela | echo river @scullywen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"This was an insight that I too gained in illness, and it is part of what I tried to write about in Piranesi: that there is a whole world endlessly going on, endlessly being beautiful, regardless of whether anyone is there to see it or not." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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Susanna Clarke: ‘I had been ill for 11 years. I felt like I was about to fall off the world’
One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sickness
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Great News! The Bangkok Criminal Court acquitted Tawan, Baipor, Bam & 4 others of charges under Sections 112 and 116. The case stemmed from a public opinion poll conducted at Siam Paragon in February 2022, which posed the question: "Do you think royal motorcades cause public inconvenience?" 1/
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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Me, an urban theorist, profoundly confused by this for a few minutes.
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