Code from nowhere
This essay ethnographically examines the maintenance of small-scale digital publishing infrastructures and the shifting culture of software work under generative AI.
Fight, Flight, Freeze, Film
This article proposes filming as a response to threat in addition to the commonly recognised responses, fight, flight and freeze.
Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections
Yuliya Grinberg. 2025. Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth
Andreas Malm. 2024. The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth. London. New York: Verso Urgency is the word that
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
Online Nuclear Regulators, Trust, and Feelings about the Future in Tanzania
‘When we talk about the National Atomic Energy Commission, what should an ordinary person think of?’ asked Tanzanian journalist Ramadhan
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 anthropologyÂ
Star computation scientist Stephen Wolfram has said that in order to accelerate the capacity of artificial intelligence towards a much more
The Imam Chatbot: A Digital ZeitgeistÂ
Hey Adam! “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Dear brothers and sisters, today I would
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