Causal Islands

Web Directions

FF Conf

Beyond Tellerrand

UX Brighton

An exploration of the problems and possible futures of flooding the web with generative AI content

The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

Smashing Meets AI

Smashing Conference Freiburg

Smashing Conference Antwerp

Squish Meets Structure

## Video Recording

<Video src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t6uhvFGPUE0" />

Google Tools for Thought Symposium

Tools for Thought Rocks

Augmented Minds Unconference

On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens

Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

React Live

CityJS London

React Advanced

Bringing visual explanations and embodied knowledge to programming tools

A Picture Worth a Thousand Programmes

Structured Content Conference

How block-based interfaces can help us create more structured data on the web

The Block-Paved Path to Structured Data

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At [React Rally 2020](http://reactrally.com) I gave a talk on magic, kinship, and ritual within the React development community. Anthropology isn't something we hear a lot of about in the world of programming, and this is my lighthearted attempt to explore some of the odd cultural behaviours and norms we've come to see as 'normal' in the web development world.

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## Video Recording

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 src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8snrXgzM1bM?start=484"
 title="The cultural anthropology of react"
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## Links and References

- "Anthropology is Philosophy with the people in it” - [Tim Ingold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ingold) from [Anthropology: Why it Matters](/anthropology-matters) (An excellent brief introduction to Anthropology).
- "Deep Hanging Out” coined by [Clifford Geertz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Geertz) in a [1998 New York Review of Books essay](http://hypergeertz.jku.at/GeertzTexts/Deep_Hanging.htm)
- [Imagined Communities](/imagined-communities) theory from [Benedict Anderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Anderson)
- Social interaction is a performance by [Erving Goffman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erving_Goffman). Proposed in the book [The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life](https://www.librarything.com/work/5484)
- [Cultural Capital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_capital) - The theory cultural knowledge and information you hold within a community works in much the same way as financial and material capital. From [Pierre Bourdieu's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu) essay one [Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction](http://piggottsclass.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/1/7/23179512/bourdieup_cultural_and_social_reproduction.pdf)
- [Alfred Gell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Gell) on the connections between technology, enchantment, and magic in [his essay on](https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/materialworlds/files/1108595.pdf) **The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology**
- "Technology is society made durable” from [Bruno Latour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour) in his [1990 essay](http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/46-TECHNOLOGY-DURABLE-GBpdf.pdf) by the same title.

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### Take a look at all the [slides on Github](https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/react-anthropology-slides)

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## The Abridged Essay Version

I've been immersed in the world of React developers since <YearsAgo>2016</YearsAgo>. As a cultural anthropologist, the beliefs, norms, and social dynamics of Reactland have always been more intriguing to me than the useEffect hook or concurrent mode.

### What is cultural anthropology?

If you have never head of “**cultural anthropology**,” don't worry. That's expected. It doesn’t often overlap with the world of web development and as a discipline it's not great at self-promotion.

It's essentially the study of human cultures and trying to understand how they work.

Or as one of my favourite anthropologists [Tim Ingold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ingold) puts it:

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From [Anthropology: Why it Matters](/anthropology-matters)

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Anthropology tries to answer many of the same questions philosophers concern themselves with;

_Why do we have language?
How should we organise our societies and institutions?
How do we deal with birth, death, morality, and conflict?_

Philosophers turn inwards to find these answers. They go into a small quiet room alone, think a lot, and read books by mostly old dead white men to find answers.

In contrast, Anthropology turns outwards - **it looks for the answers in people.** By living among them, learning from them, and taking part in their lives. A process known as [Participant Observation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participant_observation).

It isn't searching for one universal truth of all humanity, but rather **particular truths for particular people**, at particular points in time.

---

### Why care about the anthropology of React?

Looking at React through a cultural lens helps us understand it as more than simply **"a JavaScript library for building user interfaces"**.

Technical definitions can be reductive - they draw a technological box around our concepts that hide the historical and cultural context.

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What happens if we expand our understanding to include all the people who surround this React, and how they might **affect** and **be affected by** what's inside it?

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What if we entertain the idea that humans and the culture of React are an essential part of what defines React? What if we consider it a cultural ecosystem we're _active participants_ in, rather than simply a package we `npm install`

Cultural anthropology is perfectly placed to help us find answers to these questions.

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### Understanding the “The React Community"

We should establish who we’re talking about when we say “the react community” - where do we think the boundaries of the React community are, and who do we think is part of it?

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I drew a very incomplete and fuzzy map of the React world here. It’s definitely not comprehensive or to scale.

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 alt="A hand drawn map of the react community"
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I drew this to point out two key things.
First, being a React person isn’t a mutually exclusive identity - you can be other things too.

We have many overlapping and neighbouring communities we all belong to. You might also be part of the Data Viz world, or hang out within a sub niche like React Native.

Second, our community has very fluid boundaries. People flow in and out quite easily – anyone who finds it can join. To become a member you didn’t need to fill out a form and send it to a committee, or go through an initiation ceremony.

You also have the freedom to leave whenever you like.

These fuzzy boundaries sometimes make us a little bit anxious - it's hard to know who's part of the group, and weakens our sense of being a cohesive whole.

Another way to try and understand the React community is to look at some rough numbers.

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These are interesting indicators, but they're not necessarily helpful if we're primarily interested in how React works as a cultural system.

---

### React is an Imagined Community

Rather than talking about stats and numbers, it’s much more meaningful for us to talk about React an an [imagined community](/imagined-communities)

This was a concept developed by a political scientist called [Benedict Anderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Anderson) in the <YearsAgo>1980</YearsAgo>’s.

Anderson was writing about how nations imagine themselves as collective wholes, but his theory maps very well to how online communities like React work.

An imagined community has nothing to do with it being imaginary in the sense of being fake, but simply that it’s something we have to mentally construct across thousands of individual minds. It gets built through shared images and rituals.

Anderson specifically uses the idea of a national daily newspaper.

The act of sitting down and reading the daily news, and imagining a whole nation of other people, similar like you, sitting and reading those exact same words at roughly the same time, creates a sense of collective belonging.

It’s a daily ritual that reaffirms your membership, and sense of unity with a greater whole.

<ComingSoon />

React Rally

An anthropological look at the cultural norms of the React community

The Cultural Anthropology of React

_"Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors"_ is one of my conference talks about the importance of visual metaphors in explaining programming concepts.

It's perhaps also known as the **'React is a Potato'** talk. Due to the fact potatoes make a rather bold appearance in the middle. 🥔🥔🥔

Here's the debut version of it from the [Women of React](https://womenofreact.com/) Conference in <YearsAgo>2020</YearsAgo>

<Video src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MQGe9zxlRdk" />

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I've since recorded an expanded version you can [watch on egghead](https://egghead.io/talks/javascript-drawing-the-invisible-react-explained-in-five-visual-metaphors/). I've also expanded many of these ideas in my newer talk [[A Picture Worth a Thousand Programmes]]

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## The Slides

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Women of React

Egghead Talks

Explaining React through visual metaphors

Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors

<IntroParagraph>

In September of 2019 I went through the [Building a Second Brain](https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/) course<Footnote idName={1}>And took illustrated notes that you can take a look at [here](/basb)</Footnote> – an enormously popular online guide to improving your "_Personal Knowledge Management_" system.<Footnote idName={2}>Or PKM as it's commonly known, is a novel name for an old concept. The art of filtering, curating, and cultivating what you read and encounter. And then being able to turn it into "useful output" of some variety. </Footnote> The course did wonders for my information streams and note taking organisation, but the core ethos left me with questions.

</IntroParagraph>

> What does it mean to build a "second brain," and why do we think that's a **Good** and **Valuable** thing to do?

What strange historical and cultural paths led us to this cerebral cyborgian dream?

Many of these questions and themes align with concepts I explored in [[Tracking Humanity]] - my anthropology thesis on the Quantified Self movement.

Luckily I have a small community of fellow BASB enthusiasts here in London to explore these questions with. 
At our March 2020 meetup I put together a lightning talk exploring how Second Braining relates to our notions of cyborgs, our embodied experiences, and the historical legacies that landed us here.

## Video Recording

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## Slides and Notes

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## Books Mentioned in the Talk

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<ResourceBook
 url="https://www.librarything.com/work/68400"
 image="/images/books/naturalcyborgs.jpg"
 title="Natural-Born Cyborgs"
 author="Andy Clark"
>
 Philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark proposes that what makes humans
 so different from other species is our capacity to fully incorporate tools and
 supporting cultural practices into our existence.
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<ResourceBook
 url="/descarteserror"
 image="/images/books/descarteserror.jpg"
 title="Descartes Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain"
 author="Antonio Damasio"
>
 Through a series of neuroscience case studies, Antonio Damasio challenges
 traditional ideas about the connection between emotions and rationality.
 Damasio shows that emotions are not a luxury, but an essential part of
 rational thinking and normal social behaviour.
</ResourceBook>

<ResourceBook
 url="https://www.librarything.com/work/63333"
 image="/images/books/mwlb.jpg"
 title="Metaphors We Live By"
 author="George Lakoff & Mark Johnson"
>
 The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and
 its role in language and the mind. Lakoff and Johnson argue that metaphor is a
 fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to map our physical and
 social experiences onto countless other subjects.
</ResourceBook>

<ResourceBook
 url="https://www.librarything.com/work/45956"
 image="/images/books/flesh.jpeg"
 title="Philosophy in the Flesh"
 author="George Lakoff & Mark Johnson"
>
 Lakoff and Johnson philosophically examine our historical understanding of
 minds, bodies, and reasoning through a radically new and detailed
 understandings of modern cognitive science. They re-examine the basic concepts
 of the mind, time, causation, morality, and the self.
</ResourceBook>

Building a Second Brain Meetup

A lightening talk on second brains and cyborg embodiment

Talks

I occassionally give talks. Subjects range from visual programming to cultural anthropology to design tactics to the narratives we tell about software to the repercussions of jetspraying the web with thoughtless AI slop.