Phantom Vibrations of a Lost Smartphone
An anthropologist who studies human-computer interactions explores how and why losing one’s smartphone feels so unsettling. ✽ David, an American cyborg, has lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,…
An anthropologist who studies human-computer interactions explores how and why losing one’s smartphone feels so unsettling. ✽ David, an American cyborg, has lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,…
Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in the past decade. The story of international migration…
Until the fairly recent turn towards therapy and mental health of educated middle classes in Turkey, talking with one’s neighbor, […] The post The Transformative Potential of Intimacy:…
This post is inspired by Naval Ravikant, whose words enlightened me during one of the most uncertain times in my life. Below I share a few insights I…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the seond part of our November edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
In the first part of the twentieth century in France, ethnology was a science in the making. Due to its low level of institutionalization relative to other social…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
New archaeological research reveals insights into the first-known seafarers to brave ocean crossings from Asia to the Pacific Islands more than 50,000 years ago. This article was originally…
Meaningful Mealtimes Human and nonhuman lives may have first become closely entangled with the rise of agriculture as we raised both animals to eat and other animals that…
How are America’s family farms disappearing at such a rapid rate, and what does this mean for the future of our food, families, and rural identity? In this…
The exhibition launches on December 6 and presents a series of curatorial responses to current debates.
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/sovereign-attachments/paper Drew Kerr: I’m so excited you’ve taken this time to discuss Sovereign Attachments! It sits as one among, now, a number of urgent book-…
Depletion by Shirin Rai considers the hidden costs of care work, exposing its unequal gendered and racialised distribution across society. Presenting depletion as an innovative way to conceptualise…
Film Screening & Discussion with Director Nafis Fathollahzadeh Khabur 30′28 November, 13:30 CET Nafis Fathollahzadeh & Şermin Güven AllegraKino presents […] The post ALLEGRA KINO a…
A poet-historian reflects on women’s labor carrying memories and the past. ✽ memory is a washerwoman who knows that when the blood is poisoned, you have to slaughter…
How do we confront difference and change in a rapidly shifting environment? Many indigenous peoples are facing this question in their daily lives. Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives…
Conducting field research in the Global South comes with its own challenges in various stages: pre-field, during fieldwork, and post-fieldwork. […] The post Introduction: Conducting Ethnographic…
When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at ‘the edge of the world’ lost…
In 2019, my friend and colleague Grant Otsuki started experimenting with Generative AI (GenAI) – GPT-2 by OpenAI – to see how well it did at writing an…
“[45] In India there are wild asses as large as horses, or even larger. Their body is white, their head dark red, their eyes bluish, and they have a…
It’s a cold early-winter morning in South Brooklyn. The streets are empty. My friend Gabe explains that it’s only a […] The post The Social Act we call…
ISBN 9780593298589 Viking Books / Penguin Random House “I refuse to live in a worl…
Door Luka Hendrickx. Begin september fiets ik voor het eerst sinds ik het veldwerk voor mijn scriptieonderzoek afrondde de Polder weer binnen. Daarmee wordt in België de streek…