Jon Bialecki is a continuing lecturer in anthropology at the University of California, San Diego; he is the author of A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement (University of California Press, 2017) and Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End (forthcoming from Fordham University Press). His academic interests include the anthropology of religion, anthropology of the subject, ontology and temporality, religious language ideology, and religious transhumanist movements.
Jon Bialecki
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Writing on Public Books
Can Anthropology Look to the Future?
Transhumanists want to transcend humanity. Where does that leave anthropology?
Turn, Turn, Turn
You have to feel a certain degree of pity for revolutionaries. Perhaps there is even something tragic about them. There is glamour in throwing off the old order, yes, and there is the thrill of both critique and invention; this is why revolutionaries are romantic figures. But there are also tests for the revolutionary, starting, […]
