Techodyssey – Some of my experiences with technology
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Description: Anthropologist, Photographer & Free Software Developer
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I recently completed a cultural anthropology PhD, writing a 450 page dissertation on what war does to a survivor’s sense of time. I did my fieldwork in Tajikistan . While doing my PhD, I also wrote a 50,000 line open source program that helps photographers get photos and videos off their cameras and onto their computers. Additionally, I took a bunch of photos . Plus, I got married in Iran . No wonder it took me eleven years to complete my doctorate!
Most people tend to think of the past as behind us, and the future in front. But for war survivors the violent past often seems to be in front. Moreover, the violent past seems like it happened yesterday, regardless of when it occurred.
My research looks into what it means for the violent past to be in front. To understand what it means, I developed a paradigm called the spatiotemporal self , which is a novel alliance of existing theories on time and the self.
Techodyssey – Some of my experiences with technology
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