We cannot have a rational debate about technology.
Leftists, because on the whole we are mostly (and rightfully) not all that excited about AI as it exists today, are often accused of being luddites or of…
Leftists, because on the whole we are mostly (and rightfully) not all that excited about AI as it exists today, are often accused of being luddites or of…
As we write this, in January 2026, there is, theoretically speaking, a ceasefire in place in Gaza. Unfortunately, this does not mean that the war, the genocide, the…
“Cuando Gregor Samsa despertó una mañana después de un sueño intranquilo, se encontró en su cama convertido en un monstruoso insecto.” La metamorfosis, Franz Kafka Hay una escena…
This article is the third in a series about gig and platform worker unions in India written by members of the Labor Tech Research Network. Read the introduction…
Positioning the “anti-hero*ine” framework In this short piece, I explore Chrysanthi and Elektra, two street-level bureaucrats I encountered during my fieldwork, who used […] The p…
Jesse Jackson surrounded by marchers carrying signs advocating support for the Hawkins-Humphrey Bill for full employment, near the White House, Washington, D.C. Photo Source: https://commons.wikim…
Tengo buenas noticias: es posible otra forma de entender la vida en la ciudad y hay alternativas al asfalto, a las luces de neón y a los locales…
Introduction: Morality and power in humanitarian honors The arrival of hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Europe nearly a […] The post In the grey zone of…
Vera Egbers, Christa Kamleithner, Özge Sezer and Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir. 2024. Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting Memories. Berlin: De Gruyter […] The post Archit…
Dairy Creek sign In the past 2 years, I have worked on signage projects in the Portland area for agencies of the city or state. In 2025, I…
Timepass: having sat four days under the Bodhi tree in Bodhgaya and watched in procession: – an ant struggling to go the wrong way as hundreds of devotees…
Hoy quiero hablar de retomar los estudios en la Uned, en mi caso quiero retomar los estudios en la UNED de Antropología. Si, una vez más, vuelvo a…
https://gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/T/The-Evidence-Is-Life2 Timothy Loh: I love the framework of pilgrimage/peregrinación that you foreground in this book, drawing upon your interlocutors’ use…
The Nenets word for white cotton grass, livăr” refers to this beautiful, abundant white plant that grows throughout the Nenets tundra. This plant is treasured by both the…
Welcome back to a new year!Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in…
Maren Larsen‘s Worlding Home is a study of UN peacekeeping camps in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, revealing them as dynamic, porous and embedded in city life. Larsen…
Vom 2. bis 29. März 2026 wird der Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD) gewählt. Der RatSWD nimmt eine zentrale Rolle in der Weiterentwicklung der Forschungsdateninfrastruktur in Deutschland…
Febrero es mes de carnaval y exámenes, va a un ritmo de compás del 3×4. «Cuando tenían faltas de ortografía y no estructuraban los textos, me divertía mucho…
Fastlagstisdagen är en gammal tradition som infaller 47 dagar före påsk. Den är den sista dagen innan den kristna fastan börjar. Förr var fastan en lång period då…
“What happened to the women who fought for the revolution?” This question has frequently come up when I have been […] The post Anti-hero*ines and Oman’s revolutionary afterlives…
This thematic thread considers the figure of the anti-hero/anti-heroine and the lens of anti-heroism, and proposes a heuristic reformulation, the […] The post Anti-hero*ines of international soc…
By Igor Von Rosenberg – At the start of 2025, I came to Fiambalá to study how the local population of this small town of approximately five thousand…
Das gegenwärtige Vorgehen und die Rhetorik der Trump-Administration gegen obdachlose Menschen in der Bundeshauptstadt Washington D. C. scheint auf den ersten Blick beispiellos zu sein. Tatsächlich han…