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I’ve been following the projects at the Institute for the future of the book, including MacKenzie Wark’s new Gamer Theory project, and a project by journalism professor Micthell Stephens about ancient Rome. Both projects are great from the perspective of experimental interfaces– very clever about the problems of careful call and response on scholarly texts (as opposed to the post + comments model of the blog). I’m not sure either are as interesting content-wise as they are interface-wise, but that’s frequently the difficulty with new media experiments… worth checking out in any case.

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.