Against making sense: Appreciating absurd roundabouts in Malaysian Borneo
In Kuching, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, I found a musical roundabout. Large loudspeakers turn this otherwise innocuous infrastructure into an…
Read MoreIn Kuching, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, I found a musical roundabout. Large loudspeakers turn this otherwise innocuous infrastructure into an…
Read MoreOne scalding hot June day in 2014 in a remote village health post in North Shewa, Ethiopia, I attended an event intended to provide…
Read MoreIn 1964, when describing the threshold for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio, the US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said that while he couldn’t…
Read More Allegra Lab · From Despair To Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism TRANSCRIPT OF THE AUDIO ESSAY…
Read MoreWhile academic thinking increasingly shapes itself along the structure of the scientific journal article, compelling steadfast arguments that smoothly steer readers from question to…
Read MoreIntroduction: Destabilising Concepts Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård Moving from the first section of the thread where hundreds performed as much as a method…
Read MoreIntroduction: Understanding as Resonance Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård In this third section of the thread, Understanding as Resonance, the essays explore that…
Read MoreIntroduction: Whose Thinking? Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård From the sounds of the third section, we turn in the fourth section to questions about…
Read MoreThere is a global push towards making AI more ethical and transparent. As critical contributions on the topic of AI have pointed out: even…
Read MoreThis short essay addresses how trust mechanisms are articulated in one of Geneva’s local organic stores, considering the existence of trust relationships between human…
Read MoreTrust exposes and discloses the social. But the heterogeneity and even excessiveness of meaning in the concept—its overdetermination, its multifariousness and multiformity, its downright…
Read MoreAll achievement is threatened by the machine, as long as it dares to take its place in the mind, instead of obeying. That…
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