https://keithmurphy.xyz keithmurphy Wed, 09 Aug 2023 21:50:53 +0000 https://keithmurphy.xyz en http://keithmurphy.xyz/Letterwork Wed, 09 Aug 2023 21:50:53 +0000 keithmurphy 446551 person    words    deeds    home Letterwork Since 2019 I’ve been conducting ethnographic research with different communities of people who, in one way or another, care for letters and writing. I’ve hung out with letterpress printers, type designers, typographers, sign painters, neon letter benders, members of the Unicode Consortium, librarians, archivists, design instructors, and a bunch of other people who really like type. I’m working on a book based on all of this — each chapter is focused on a different kind of “letterwork,” but as a whole the book offers (fingers crossed!) a new and unique perspective on the social value of writing.  person    words    deeds    home Letterwork Since 2019 I’ve been conducting ethnographic research with different communities of... http://keithmurphy.xyz/km-deeds Mon, 07 Oct 2019 21:05:35 +0000 keithmurphy 342290 person    words    deeds    home researchLetterwork Design and Anthropology Swedish Design Phenomenology, Volition, and Social Life other projects Ethnocharrettes (with George Marcus) courses Introduction to Language and CultureLanguage and Social CognitionImprovisation, Language, and Culture Design, Aesthetics, Social Life Language and the Social World Classic Ethnography: Society and Power Utopias and Dystopias media Futurum Careers, 2022Primary Materials, 2017CaMP Anthropology, 2017AnthroPod podcast, 2017Savage Minds, 2015 (Part 1, Part 2) cv most likely a little out of date person    words    deeds    home researchLetterwork Design and Anthropology Swedish Design Phenomenology, Volition, and Social Life... http://keithmurphy.xyz/km-words Sat, 05 Oct 2019 21:07:34 +0000 keithmurphy 339788 person    words    deeds    home books   Designs and Anthropologies: Frictions and Affinities  (with Eitan Y. Wilf). School of Advanced Research / UNM Press Swedish Design: An Ethnography. Cornell University Press Toward an Anthropology of the Will (with Jason Throop). Stanford University Press on designFake News and the Web of Plausibility. Social Media and Society Programming Politeness: Digital Servantry and The Rules of Social Engagement. Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson Form-Giving as Moral Mediation. Designs and Anthropologies Design and Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology A Cultural Geometry: Designing Political Things in Sweden. American Ethnologist The Aesthetics of Governance. Journal of Design Strategies Design as a Cultural System. EPIC website Design and Temporality. Correspondences: Cultural Anthropology website on graphic language Lettering the Land: The Social World as Pattern/ed Language. LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture Fontroversy! Or, How to Care About the Shape of Language. Language and Materiality on design & embodiment Collaborative Imagining. Semiotica Imagination as Joint Activity: The Case of Architectural Interaction. Mind, Culture, and Activity Transmodality and Temporality in Design Interactions. Journal of Pragmatics Embodied Reasoning in Architectural Critique. Design Studies Building Meaning in Interaction: Rethinking Gesture Classification. Crossroads of Language, Interaction, and Culture Building Stories: The Embodied Narration of What Might Come to Pass. Embodied Interaction   on method Transcription Aesthetics. Semiotic Review Audio-Video Technology for and in the Field (with Gregory Kohler). Research Methods in Linguistic Anthropology Imagination, Improvisation, and Letting Go. Collaborative Anthropology Today Art, Design, and the Ethics of Ethnographic Encounter. Between Matter and Method Ethnography and Design, Ethnography in Design…Ethnography by Design (with George Marcus). Design Anthropology: Between Theory and Practice Ethnographic Design. Keywords for Ethnography and Design: Cultural Anthropology website        residuum Multimodality. A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology Bourdieu and Phenomenology: A Critical Assessment. Anthropological Theory person    words    deeds    home books   Designs and Anthropologies: Frictions and Affinities  (with Eitan Y. Wilf).... http://keithmurphy.xyz/km-info Fri, 04 Oct 2019 22:39:12 +0000 keithmurphy 339731 person    words    deeds    home who I’m currently an associate professor in the department of anthropology at UC Irvine. I received my PhD from UCLA in 2008. I study lots of things, but design seems to be the most consistent. whereemail: kmmurphy@uci.edu office: 3306 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway fax: (949) 824-0646 mail: Dept. of Anthropology, 3151 Social Science Plaza, Irvine, CA 92697-5100 what the Music I like Music I’m listening to A mostly outdated window into my mind person    words    deeds    home who I’m currently an associate professor in the department of anthropology at UC Irvine. I... http://keithmurphy.xyz/Home-Page Wed, 02 Dec 2015 20:09:56 +0000 keithmurphy 339729 Keith M. Murphyanthropologist person words deeds © Keith Murphy 2025 Keith M. Murphyanthropologist person words deeds © Keith Murphy 2025