The Water
Barclay BramAn anthropologist investigates
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Should you do a Phd? pt.2
Last edition I talked about a Phd as an open-ended (almost spiritual) journey. I also talked about why it is that the Phd has come to fill this particular social function, and whether or not this comes at the exclusion of other forms of kno...
Should you do a phd?
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It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these. I’ve been busy tearing apart my thesis and slowly stitching it back together again, a process I thought would take a month but that bled into two and a half. Doing a phd, it turns ou...
Meritocracy
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Last newsletter I wrote about the vanishingly small odds that exist for people to achieve their dreams in contexts of radical competition. As I argued, our societies are characterised by scarcity in a time of...
Against the odds
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Imagine you’re like me, and you want to write. Maybe you harbour some aspirations to work for a legacy news organisation. You’re graduating this year, so it’s time to start applying! Let’s imagine you’re in the US (bec...
Hologrief
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Last week I published a piece for Dazed’s A Future World series on the way that deepfake technology is re-animating the dead.
Because this piece is available free here I won’t write too much about it in thi...
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Barclay Bram is an anthropologist in Oxford University's School of Overseas and Global Area Studies.
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