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
Meet the smugglers. Decolonising the mind, questioning the border
To A. and O., for better or for worse. The story I want to tell might seem to be about
Between Borders and Ballots
“I do wonder how safe this is for me. I mean, sharing these things.” The room felt small as he
The Imam Chatbot: A Digital Zeitgeist
Hey Adam! “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Dear brothers and sisters, today I would
Just keep swimming
When I stumbled back home from the 18th EASA Biennial Conference in Barcelona (23-26 July), my wife asked how it
Fire bodies
Fire Bodies was written in response to the death of my partner and the embodied experience of climate catastrophic events.