... This chapter analyzes two ways that Indian programmers materialize cognitive work—telling jokes and giving gifts. Though much anthropological attention has focused recently on the gift as a site to think through contemporary capitalism and its alternatives, jokes have been given less attention...

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... Chinese internet digital media social media epidemic jokes Wuhan lockdown ...

... Anren Jianchuan Museum Cluster Ba Jin Jewish Holocaust Museum Freudian joke ...

... Berlin Wall Practical Jokes Gerd Gigerenzer Erving Goffman The Crystal World Agatha Christie ...

... Self-Boosterism Institutions Practical Jokes Comic Books Uncanny Valley Patricia Highsmith Tom McCarthy Siegfried Kracauer ...

... This chapter takes up the crisis of the work of art in the epoch of social systems from another side.. The crisis of the art work now has become a way of posing the problem of action and intention in autotropic (self-turned) systems. The art work now resembles a practical joke: a staging...

... internet forums during SARS, highlighting how people told and shared jokes about epidemic life in order to broaden the range of the sayable about infectious disease and lower the stakes of everyday epidemic expression. The chapter focuses on several new subgenres (SARS greetings, SARS sweet-talk, SARS folk...