An ode to being wrong about creativity
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative […]
Soviet Russian and Armenian Radio Astronomers in Communication with (Extra) Terrestrial Intelligence
What historians of science do is social and cultural history, but of a sort that is sometimes harder to look
Syria in transition: Impressions from Damascus after the toppling of the Assad regime
This post was written in February 2025. In late January 2025, just under two months after the toppling of the
In times like these
In the places where we work, the prisons fill. At first it seemed a trickle, no one we knew, then
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