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Alberto Corsín Jiménez is a Senior Scientist in Social
Anthropology at the Spanish National Research Council, and Head of the
Social Sciences Board at the Spanish National Agency for the Evaluation
of Science. He has an interest in the organization of ethnography and
anthropological knowledge as descriptive and theoretical forms. He has
just finished a book A trompe l’oeil anthropology for a common world,
where description is placed at perpendicular angles vis-a-vis emerging
forms of global public knowledge. His current work examines the rise of
an urban commons movement and the development of open-source urban
hardware projects by architects, artists and engineers. Most of his
academic writings are available for download at his website.