Friction Redux at the AAA

For those of you who participated in this summer’s reading circle on Anna Tsing’s book Friction, I will be part of a panel on the book, organized by Kimberly Christen: Discussing Friction: Engaging with Anna Tsing’s book Friction: an Ethnography of Global Connection on Thursday at 4:00 PM – 05:45 PM. I plan to discuss some of my own research as well as some of the themes raised in the discussion.

Christopher Kelty does anthropological and historical research on science and technology, free and open source software, intellectual property and open access, the history of software, and the ethics and politics of nanotechnology. He also teaches classes about all of these things. From 2001 to 2008 he was assistant professor of anthropology at Rice University, in Houston, TX. He know teaches at UCLA and splits his time between the Information Studies department, the Anthropology Department and the Center for Society and Genetics.