Joel C. Kuipers

Joel Kuipers is Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is a linguistic anthropologist who has conducted long-term ethnographic research in Indonesia and, more recently, in the United States on language and media among high school cellphone users and on COVID-19 funerals.

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Mob Rule, American Fascism, and Cellular Telephony

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Mob Rule, American Fascism, and Cellular Telephony

Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. —Walter Benjamin, Illuminations [In the crowd], ... More