Paul Kockelman is a linguistic anthropologist who works on a range of topics–including affect, grammatical categories, parasites, spam filters, infrastructure, time, value, materiality, and poultry husbandry. He is the author of Agent, Person, Subject Self: A Theory on Ontology, Interaction and Infrastructure (OUP 2013), and Language, Culture, and Mind: Natural Constructions and Social Kinds (CUP 2010). Kockelman’s forthcoming book is entitled, NGOs, Eco-Tourists, and Endangered Avifauna: Portable Values and Incommensurate Ontologies in the Cloud Forests of Highland Guatemala (Duke). And along with Nick Enfield and Jack Sidnell, he is the editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (CUP 2014). Kockelman is currently working on the relation between computation and interpretation, focusing on the interaction of sieving and serendipity. And one of his most recent publications offers useful advice about how to survive your first night in Minecraft.