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At React Rally 2020 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.

I’ve been immersed in the world of React developers since 2016 10ya . 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.

Links and References

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.

Take a look at all the slides on GitHub

Or as one of my favourite anthropologists Tim Ingold puts it:

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

The Abridged Essay Version

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.

What is cultural anthropology?

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 .

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.

值得单独记下的观察

• “Anthropology is Philosophy with the people in it” – Tim Ingold from Anthropology: Why it Matters (An excellent brief introduction to Anthropology).
• “Deep Hanging Out” coined by Clifford Geertz in a 1998 New York Review of Books essay
• Imagined Communities theory from Benedict Anderson
• Social interaction is a performance by Erving Goffman . Proposed in the book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
• 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 essay one Cultural Reproduction and Social
• Alfred Gell on the connections between technology, enchantment, and magic in his essay on The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology
• “Technology is society made durable” from Bruno Latour in his 1990 essay by the same title.

落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 先写清这个工具在强化思考还是在替人思考。
2. 默认交互不要只会谄媚：该追问、该给反例、该要求证据。
3. 智能体界面要露出推理步骤，而不是只给一个光滑答案。
4. 知识发布用可生长的笔记，而不是一次性营销长文。
5. 改产品前先画隐喻：用户以为自己在做什么，系统实际在做什么。

和智能体产品怎么接

龙虾PRO做 OpenClaw 落地时，最该从这类笔记里拿走的是「别把聊天框当唯一界面」。数字员工要能追问、能验证、能把过程摊开，而不是只负责说好话。

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