Breaking Form: Practices of Black visuality and Sonority
Realizing that things are because things are connected. In the spaces between, we create. Some days I wonder if this is […]
Practicing slow scholarship in a hard world
I feel surrounded by a special sense of gratitude, one that I’m unsure I have ever felt before, exactly like
On Silence
On the 7th of December 2024, Damascus was up all night having a special kind of party. At 3 a.m., my siblings
At the state’s gate: The uncomplicated coexistence of ideas about rights and hospitality among Syrian refugee youths in Jordan
Introduction In the short story Before the Law, Franz Kafka writes about a man from the country who attempts to
Soliciting Slaps – Notes from the Margins of Academia
Just as “Der Optimismus ist Pflicht” (optimism is a duty) – as Popper is frequently (though perhaps apocryphally) credited with
Beyond the Footnote: Citation as Disruption in Creative Anthropology
Why We Need to Talk about Referencing Creative Work “I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.” Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison
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
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
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