Platypod, Episode Twelve: Hacking Alternative Futures
Read the transcript here. Dr. Luis Felipe R. Murillo is a brilliant author and anthropologist. I sat with him to chat about his new book Common Circuits: Hacking…
Read the transcript here. Dr. Luis Felipe R. Murillo is a brilliant author and anthropologist. I sat with him to chat about his new book Common Circuits: Hacking…
During Tania’s summer 2025 internship at the Open Door Clinic in Addison County, Vermont, she translated for a migrant farmworker, […] The post Mobility as Dependence: Politics of…
Issue Contents President’s letter Dear NAPA Members, Spring has been a season of significant news for Anthropology. Some of it (sadly) unsurprising, all of it revealing. But as…
What is critique, and what might it still accomplish? This question serves as the point of departure for a series of […] The post What is critique? A conversation…
What is critique, and what might it still accomplish? This question serves as the point of departure for a series of […] The post What is critique? A conversation…
What is critique, and what might it still accomplish? This question serves as the point of departure for a series of […] The post What is critique? A conversation…
What is critique, and what might it still accomplish? This question serves as the point of departure for a series of […] The post What is critique? A conversation…
ByYuije Wang We are used to measuring time by clocks and calendars, letting days and years slip away along a straight, linear path. Yet from an anthropological perspective,…
The Arcana of Reproduction More to say on this soon as it is invaluable for the book I am working on and is so much more than the…
The question that opens this text guides a research project that brings together two fields on the margins of social studies of knowledge, materiality, and technology: olfactory studies…
ByDanielle GalwayMSc Anthropology and Professional Practice The photograph shows two young women, on a summer evening, a night out in Cornwall. Similar but so different, they are sisters…
This fieldnote examines Iran’s internet shutdown — 2,100 hours accumulated over an eighty-eight-day near-total blackout, the longest documented outage in contemporary world history — not as a technica…
If you haven’t heard of Heated Rivalry, you’ve either been living under a rock or spending too much time on LinkedIn. Sadly, if you’re reading this it’s probably…
By Nancy Hakizimana – The first man in recorded history did not pursue the first woman. He did not write her a letter, he did not rehearse a…
This article examines the McArthur River Mine Native Title compensation ruling as a landmark case in the recognition of Aboriginal cultural harm in Australia. The post The Cost…
This essay ethnographically examines the maintenance of small-scale digital publishing infrastructures and the shifting culture of software work under generative AI. The post Code from nowhere appeare…
Why should the figure of the middleman matter for scholars of global health? The short answer is: they are impossible to avoid. The long answer is as follows:…
Mohammed El-Kurd. 2025. Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. Chicago: Haymarket Books. “To refuse that which has been refused […] The post Perfect Victims and the Politics…
What do you call a practice that is neither traditional nor modern, neither fully inside medicine nor fully outside it? In Türkiye, the answer arrived in the form…
To celebrate our 2026 printed issue of Anthropolitan, we held a competition, asking members of the UCL community to create images which hold our theme of temporalities. Here…
On World Usability Day in 2023, I gathered my User Experience team for an AI Learning session. Members of my team had been experimenting with Adobe Firefly and…
This article proposes filming as a response to threat in addition to the commonly recognised responses, fight, flight and freeze. The post Fight, Flight, freeze, Film appeared first…
While Islamic family law in Pakistan has shown a jurisprudential trend towards strengthening women’s rights in divorce — including some aspects of women’s financial rights — recognition of…