Zero Anthropology Project: The Best Oddballs

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More in the period pre-2011 than after, the Zero Anthropology Magazine on occasion presented bizarre, oddball pieces of cultural commentary, fiction, and satire. For a time the magazine ran a series titled “Monday Morning Madness,” from which some of the items below originated. However, some of the material frankly involved nothing more than clowning around. Other items listed below just do not fit within the other compilations on this site, which means they also qualify as oddballs. What have we learned from this? That there are a great many people out there who have lost (or never had?) the ability to laugh, to laugh at themselves, or who have never been culturally sensitized to the arts of sarcasm—they are wound up a little too tight for their own good. The date of the last edit here was June 30, 2019.

2018. “Risk, Trust, and Fulfilment: Reality Tourism, Continued”. Zero Anthropology, February 1.

2017. “Videos: The Adventures of the Master Class Reconsidered”. Zero Anthropology, June 26.

2017. “The Razor’s Edge LLC Brings You ‘Reality Tourism’™”. Zero Anthropology, June 15.

2011. “BLEAK”. Zero Anthropology, January 14.

2010. “U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM): Commemorating Columbus Day 2010”. Zero Anthropology, October 12.

2010. “Counterinsurgency: It’s Bloody Horrible”. Zero Anthropology, July 19.

2009. “Single-Cell Resistance in the TimeSpace of Kairos”. Zero Anthropology, May 27.

2009. “A Minor Bun Engine Made Benny Lava, May He Poop on My Knee: Cross-Cultural Translation Under Conditions of Contemporary Electronic Globalization”. Zero Anthropology, March 23.

2008. “The Revenge of the Local, the Horror of the Provincial, and Western Cosmopolitanism at Risk”. Zero Anthropology, December 1.

2008. “Who Is Still Running the World? An ‘Anthropologically Unjust’ Reality”. Zero Anthropology, November 24.

2008. “Spectroscopic Survey of Imperial (De)formations: A Wholly Dispassionate and Disinterested Report from the Links”. Zero Anthropology, August 4.

2008. “Ataklan Walks Naked”. Zero Anthropology, June 30.

2008. “The Sun Starts to Rise”. Zero Anthropology, June 16.

2008. “Walk Cautiously where Shame and Confusion Lurk”. Zero Anthropology, June 9.

2008. “Joshua Marx, Anthropologist Among the Nationalists, Jumbies, and Whores of the Postcolony”. Zero Anthropology, June 4.

2008. “That’s Just Ole Rum Talk…”. Zero Anthropology, June 2.

2008. “Daniela Drinks with 'Darkie'”. Zero Anthropology, May 31.

2008. “Revolution (3 Canal): ‘This land is “mines”’”. Zero Anthropology, May 26.

2008. “Anthropology is Dead, Long Live Anthropology! (Who Wants to Leave those Golden Rule Days in the Jungle?)”. Zero Anthropology, May 13.

2008. “Talk Yuh Talk, Mocking Pretenders”. Zero Anthropology, May 12.

2008. “It's a 1-8-7 on the Undercover Blog...”. Zero Anthropology, May 5.

Image: A scene from the exit of the north side of St. John’s harbour, Newfoundland. Photograph by Maximilian C. Forte (2018), free for non-commercial reuse with attribution.