#professional societies

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Architects must be aware of the ethical dimensions of their projects to avoid what political theorist Hannah Arendt famously called ‘the banality of evil’ − the subtle trajectory from accepting a morally questionable project to becoming familiar enough with a problematic client that one stops questioning their programmes altogether.

Raphael Sperry at The Architectural Review. DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

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From my perspective, the most important thing that has happened here is not that Cultural Anthropology has gone open access, it’s that we are now a society-published journal.

Tim Elfenbein interviewed by Matt Thompson at Savage Minds. Inside baseball with Tim Elfenbein, managing editor of Cultural Anthropology

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