The problems with XR headsets that even Apple can’t fix
A history of wearables at Augmented World Expo 2013 Tech companies have been trying to make VR/AR/XR headsets go mainstream for over three decades. Here’s what I’ve discovered in…
A history of wearables at Augmented World Expo 2013 Tech companies have been trying to make VR/AR/XR headsets go mainstream for over three decades. Here’s what I’ve discovered in…
Guthman, Julie. The Problem with Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Hack the Future of Food. University of California Press. 272 pp. ISBN 9780520402676 Amanda Kaminsky (University of C…
By Max Liboiron and Alex Bond We study plastic ingestion in animals harvested for food in Nunatsiavut, Inuit homelands in northern Labrador, Canada. This work is about more…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-trauma-mantras Sofía Cifuentes Contador: The Trauma Mantras is a non-conventional ethnography that draws on different writing styles, such as autoethnography, po…
To cope with terrorist attacks, we look for signs that the perpetrators are somehow abnormal or monstrous. Often, they are more similar to the rest of us than…
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A suitcase full of books and a backpack with the essentials. So that was it. That was all I was going to take with me… I am surprised…
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I am not sure there isn’t a major disconnect here. The global mining comglommoabberation Riotinto have the worst record, morally, ethically, and with their dirty-mucky-fingers inside the struct…
I feel surrounded by a special sense of gratitude, one that I’m unsure I have ever felt before, exactly like […] The post Practicing slow scholarship in a…
A vivid and intricate study of dance music traditions that reveals the many contradictions of being Syrian in the 21st century Dabke, one of Syria’s most beloved dance…
While thinking optimistically about politics is never wise, it is impossible not to share in the euphoria of Syrians for […] The post Syria in the Moment appeared…
After more than eight years of no contact, I conducted a video call with a former non-influential officer from an […] The post The Emotional Toll of Death…
This text is a slightly adapted keynote/film introductory note I gave at a conference when the Department of Media and Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger celebrated…
I. Hair as an Opening I first met her in the summer of 2020. An elderly woman, her silver hair […] The post She braids, I listen appeared…
An anthropologist investigates how archaeology helped the U.S. colonize the Panama Canal Zone—just as the current U.S. government threatens to retake it. THE GREATER UNITED STATES The United…
The fall of Asad’s state of eternity on December 8th, the liberation of his regime’s prisons and security centres, the […] The post Forever no more? Between new…
On December 8th, 2024, Syria – my country of birth and the place where I lived for twenty-four years – […] The post Inheriting a Dislocatory Moment appeared…
Over the past decade, decentralized finance (DeFi) has emerged as a blockchain-based alternative to traditional financial systems—promising open access, automation, and the removal of institutional mi…
In the shifting political landscape of post-Asad Syria, global narratives surrounding political Islam are undergoing a recalibration, blurring engagement with […] The post Recalibrating Politica…
An anthropologist discovers diasporic flights—including her own—that begin at and return to the waters of the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. ✽ WITHIN A FEW HOURS…
How can communications studies contribute to anthropological inquiry of Syria? This essay reflects on the architecture that governs silence and […] The post Do walls still have ears?…
In Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons (Duke University Press, 2025), anthropologist and dancer Maya J. Berry examines rumba as a way of knowing the embodied…
Speaking was very risky during the fifty-four years long Asad family domination of the republic.[1] By speaking, I am not […] The post On Volte-Face (Takwi’) appeared first…