‘Is this still life all I’m good for too?’
A review of the film Open Unit. The appearance of a new Smith film from Paul Antick is a source […]
Empathy and dialogue: embracing the art of creative review
Imagine the moment you first encounter a piece of creative ethnography—a poem, a performance, an image—that speaks to the heart
The Temporality of Violence — Affect, Atmospheres and contested Frameworks in the Study of Colonial Collections
We are a group of five, three men and two women, sitting in the shade of a Maasai hut in
Being Fungible – They Only Want Us from the Neck Down
They Only Want Us from the Neck Down Across the airport car park, a figure in a mad dash—a sprawl
Wild Computing: a view from anthropology
Star computation scientist Stephen Wolfram has said that in order to accelerate the capacity of artificial intelligence towards a much more
Of Home and Ghosts: Notes on Iraqi Art and Imperial Nostalgia
“Why do most of the paintings speak of war?” Dima, barely nine-year-old, asked me. This summer, as my Royal Jordanian
Narrative Abandonment: Suffering and the Hidden Costs of Solidarity in Times of War
As the all-out war in Ukraine touched the baton with the Covid pandemic in the early 2022, the plight of
Pasts Cast in Concrete and Steel? Infrastructure and the War in Ukraine
In May 2024, following a barrage of Russian missile attacks on power stations across Ukraine, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced
The Social Act We Call Memory
It’s a cold early-winter morning in South Brooklyn. The streets are empty. My friend Gabe explains that it’s only a