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 […]
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
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
Fire bodies
Fire Bodies was written in response to the death of my partner and the embodied experience of climate catastrophic events.
Encyclopedia of maladies in academic anthropology: counter-diagnosis for a sick working environment
What you are about to read is not fiction, but neither is it fact. It is a catalogue of illnesses
Authorship in the post-academic, post-human age
In 1964, when describing the threshold for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio, the US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said
From Despair to Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism
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Let there be Light: Frontiers of techno-Solar Capitalism
I grew up in an area surrounded by miombo woodland, located approximately 200 kilometres southeast of Lake Tanganyika. In the