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
Ordinary Treasures: Objects from Home
I am going to start with breathing what I push out of me and what you push out of you
On Censorship and the American Anthropological Association’s Declining Democracy
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is awaiting the results of a membership vote on a resolution to boycott Israeli academic
On Starships and people: Can we rescue the liberatory potentials of technology?
On April 20th, 2023, SpaceX attempted the first integrated flight of its biggest rocket called Starship. SpaceX is a private
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Anti-Boycott Laws?
Anthropologists are often quick to decry the law as a fig leaf for the exercise of raw political or economic
Subtractions and Accumulations
The following curated collection of fragments outlines two main strategies used over the last ten years in the creation of
Going beneath the surface: The subtler messages about forced displacement in ‘The Swimmers’
The screen is dark, the music sombre. There are sounds of muffled voices and explosions. The dark screen breaks to