Revisiting BioShock in Trumps America
by Clare Wiznura The 2007 video game BioShock explores what might happen when individuals have the option to keep all the fruits of their labour, free from taxes…
by Clare Wiznura The 2007 video game BioShock explores what might happen when individuals have the option to keep all the fruits of their labour, free from taxes…
As judges scout new restaurants to evaluate in U.S. cities, an anthropologist investigates the elite, Eurocentric history of the Michelin Red Guide and how it became the ultimate…
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The docu-fiction film explores the changing meaning of Rapanui wooden sculptures and is now available online.
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A richly imagined new view on the great human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the climate instability of our present, that defies conventional wisdom and…
I have a bone to pick with anyone who persists in assuming that the life of hunting and gathering is the “evolutionary environment of adaptation” for humans, and…
In 2016, Anand Pandian was alarmed by Donald Trump’s harsh attacks on immigrants to the United States, the appeal of that politics of anger and fear. In the…
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Transcript Credits 0:06Welcome to sNAPAhots, conversations with professional, practicing,…
In this live discussion with Agustín Fuentes about his new book, Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary, the Princeton University professor shares his groundbreaking examination…
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Our final correspondence: 石西: 明日の事はわかりませんが とりあえず楽しくておつきあいをいただいたこと ありがとうございました me: BEST FRIEND 石西: ゆーつー This might not be the most appropriate memorial photo for my friend Isonishi-san. But it is…
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In The Great Betrayal, Fawaz Gerges examines the reasons for consistent political instability in the Middle East since the early 20th century. Examining Western intervention, domestic authoritarian ru…