Michael Leunig 1945-2024
Vale Michael Leunig To honour Leunig’s art, you could do worse than to read The Curly Pyjama Letters: https://cdn2.reader.cx/?source=cdb57604ddccccabed07785d0e0e9…
Vale Michael Leunig To honour Leunig’s art, you could do worse than to read The Curly Pyjama Letters: https://cdn2.reader.cx/?source=cdb57604ddccccabed07785d0e0e9…
By Emma Louise Backe In year marked by monumental legal cases against abusive men—Gisèle Pelicot in France, Cassie’s lawsuit against former partner Sean “Diddy” Combs—America re-elected a proud…
Star computation scientist Stephen Wolfram has said that in order to accelerate the capacity of artificial intelligence towards a much more […] The post Wild Computing: a view from…
As observed in media representations of immigrants during the Covid-19 pandemic, racist discourse is produced and reproduced by journalists and ordinary citizens who would not…
Death and Funeral Practices in Japan (Routledge, 2024) is an essential introductory text an often overlooked element of cultural expression. The books offers a succinct history to the development of funeral practices…
What does mourning have to do with politics? How do practices of forced disappearance and improper burial shape subjects, spaces, and what is intelligible? What are people doing…
It’s this time of the year again, and Allegra will close shop for the many merry end-of-year festivities (or just […] The post GONE ICE-FISHING appeared first on…
Welcome to our annual wrap-up of CASTAC’s 2024 activities! We are grateful to all of you, our readers, for engaging with our content this year and we look…
The Solitart Gourmet becomes a full length feature film, with a very different kind of vibe. Out on January 10, 2025. Official movie site: https://gekieiga-kodokunogurume.jp/ Movie trailer: https…
2024 has been a remarkable year of growth and achievement at SAR, and it’s a testament to the passion and dedi…
Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs by Marcia C. Inhorn (NYU Press, 2023) Since 2012, when egg freezing by vitrification (flash-freezing) emerged from…
Scholars of religion have mostly abandoned the concept of “syncretism” in which certain apparent deviations from “standard” practice are believed to be the result of a mixture of…
Menstruation as a subject of study is not new. Margaret Mead, Mary Douglas, Chris Bobel, Miren Guillo, and Karina Felitti, among many others, have discussed how menstruation has…
Before we get started some small print: This is (ideally) a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in Porgera…
John Work Journal 1834 The journal of John Work[1], a chief fur trader with the Hudson’s Bay Company offers many unique perspectives on the valley
Here’s Why We Think It’s Amazing I’m incredibly excited to award Calm Tech certification to reMarkable Paper Pro, an innovative paper tablet with a color display. I recently completed the…
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 18, 2024—Birthed from the land and shaped by a millennium of skillful hands, Pueblo pottery is one of America’s most enduring art forms. An exhibition…
by Yannick van Druijten – When Matús first called Petržalka a ‘concrete jungle’, I laughed. At that moment I had not fully understood what he meant. Matús had…
BCG joins many others in articulating that female consumer / patient needs aren’t being met. This is a market ripe for innovation, disruption, and even aggregation. And hopefully,…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the second part of December edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social…
At the end of the semester, a couple of student presentations in one of my classes dealt with drinking in Japan. To be honest, both seemed sterotypical and…
How Is It Between Us?: Relational Ethics and Care for the World (HAU Books, 2023) offers a new theory of relational ethics that tackles contemporary issues. In How Is It Between…