Comments on: Identification Overload http://savageminds.org/2006/09/20/identification-overload/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:31:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Addressing Publics Positively: Some Developments in HIV Prevention http://savageminds.org/2006/09/20/identification-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-46369 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Addressing Publics Positively: Some Developments in HIV Prevention Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:36:00 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/09/20/identification-overload/#comment-46369 [...] Earlier on Savage Minds, I asked about contemporary shifts in the symbolism and sociality of HIV/AIDS—a global epidemic. The question concerns me as someone who found himself along with other members of ACT UP, in the early mid-90s, in places like the parking lot of the Astrodome yelling at delegates to the Republican National Convention about funding for healthcare. It concerns me as someone who, in the late mid-90s, was employed as a professional ethnographer (!) tracking social knowledge related to sexual risk amongst gay youth in San Francisco. These days, I am interested in the meaning of HIV and the ways in which that meaning is mediated and manifested specifically through what might be called technologies of public persuasion, whether they are relatively complex, such as social marketing campaigns (on the left above), or fairly simple, such as political protest posters (on the right). [...] [...] Earlier on Savage Minds, I asked about contemporary shifts in the symbolism and sociality of HIV/AIDS—a global epidemic. The question concerns me as someone who found himself along with other members of ACT UP, in the early mid-90s, in places like the parking lot of the Astrodome yelling at delegates to the Republican National Convention about funding for healthcare. It concerns me as someone who, in the late mid-90s, was employed as a professional ethnographer (!) tracking social knowledge related to sexual risk amongst gay youth in San Francisco. These days, I am interested in the meaning of HIV and the ways in which that meaning is mediated and manifested specifically through what might be called technologies of public persuasion, whether they are relatively complex, such as social marketing campaigns (on the left above), or fairly simple, such as political protest posters (on the right). [...]

]]> By: C L O S E R » Blog Archive » Bamboozled in the politics of race http://savageminds.org/2006/09/20/identification-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-31392 C L O S E R » Blog Archive » Bamboozled in the politics of race Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:49:22 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/09/20/identification-overload/#comment-31392 [...] UPDATE I came across an interesting entry at Savage Minds, one of my favorite blogs,  called Identification Overload. In that first entry not the question of race is tackled, but the identification of celebs with the HIV cause: [...] [...] UPDATE I came across an interesting entry at Savage Minds, one of my favorite blogs,  called Identification Overload. In that first entry not the question of race is tackled, but the identification of celebs with the HIV cause: [...]

]]> By: Clare http://savageminds.org/2006/09/20/identification-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-30017 Clare Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:51:07 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/09/20/identification-overload/#comment-30017 This picture was the subject of a fascinating post -- <a href="http://blackademic.com/?p=139" rel="nofollow">No comment</a> -- and set of responses about a month ago at <a href="http://blackademic.com/" rel="nofollow">blac(k)ademic</a> This picture was the subject of a fascinating post — No comment — and set of responses about a month ago at blac(k)ademic

]]> By: Strong http://savageminds.org/2006/09/20/identification-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-29977 Strong Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:43:27 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/09/20/identification-overload/#comment-29977 Yes: WWCPSAT? Yes: WWCPSAT?

]]> By: Kerim http://savageminds.org/2006/09/20/identification-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-29970 Kerim Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:48:27 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/09/20/identification-overload/#comment-29970 Might it have something to do with the fact that drug regimes are fairly powerful for those who can afford it? What would Cindy Patton say about this? Might it have something to do with the fact that drug regimes are fairly powerful for those who can afford it?

What would Cindy Patton say about this?

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