If I Could Talk to the Algorithm
In the film Doctor Dolittle (1967), the title character yearns to “Talk to the Animals,” as the song goes, to understand their mysterious and often vexing ways. It…
Piecing Together History From a Roman Mosaic
The 2020 discovery of an ancient villa in Britain uncovered the most important Roman mosaic found in the last century. An archaeologist explains how the mosaic offers an…
Review: Anxious Eaters
Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets. Columbia University Press. New York: 2022. ISBN # 9780231192446 Emily Contois (The University of Tulsa)…
Gaby Greenlee takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation reflects on a detail in an elite type of garment that the Inka Empire (ca. 1476-1532 CE) fabricated in its workshops during the…
Sina Ma Tinirau wins Best Animation Short
A true story: Eight women from Santa Rosa wanted to see a movie set on their home island of Rotuma. And so they got in their cars…
Kochen
Ich habe mir nun endlich auch indische Gewürze gekauft. Und ein Nudelholz. Und Atta, das lokale Mehl. So konnte ich nun auch beginnen, indisches Essen zu kochen. Das…
Kochen
Ich habe mir nun endlich auch indische Gewürze gekauft. Und ein Nudelholz. Und Atta, das lokale Mehl. So konnte ich nun auch beginnen, indisches Essen zu kochen. Das…
‘No laughter, no war’
An exploration of soldier humor This blog post is part of the Experience of War conference, March 24, 2023, funded by the WARFUN project. Are soldiers funny? On the…
M. R. Sharan, “Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar’s Villages” (Westland, 2021)
M. R. Sharan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, studying questions centred around development economics and political economy. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University…
Vad döljer sig bakom reflektionen?
Det finns någonting magiskt med speglar, i vissa lägen älskar vi dem, i andra inger de oss en känsla av oro och att vara iakttagna. Att se sig…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW5
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. ein Praktikum auf dem 23. Internationalen literaturfestivals in Berlin, ein Praktikum in den Bereichen Marketing, Social Media und Kundenbetreuung bei cooler Bike Comp…
Rock Drawings
A Tohono O’odham poet and linguist reflects on the stories and wisdom ancestors communicated—how people survived, how they dispersed and differentiated, how they remember. “Rock Drawings” …
Queer Space
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns out that lesbian life in…
Maison Centrale de Saigon // General Sciences Library
Trying to read in the library but looking out the window at the reminder that this is no ordinary library experience. A few parts from a recent text:…
Yokai i japansk folktro
Om du befinner dig i en mörk skog mitt i natten och hör någon fälla ett träd i närheten så kan det vara Furusoma som är i farten.…
REMEMBERING MY MENTOR Professor Shyama Charan Dube (S.C. Dube)
Contributed By: Prof. R. K. Mutatkar Former Founder Head, Deptt. of Anthropology Director, Inter-disciplinary School of Health Sciences Savitribai Phule Pune University Maharashtra Email: rkmutatka…
Robin Bartram, “Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Though we rarely see them at work, building inspectors have the power to significantly shape our lives through their discretionary decisions. The building inspectors of Chicago are at…
Reine Leere als Ware: der schöne Schein des Minimalismus
Ist das Leben mit den ganz wenigen edlen Dingen wirklich die Erlösung aus dem Konsum? Von Apple bis Marie Kondo gibt es die konzentrierte Klarheit und die schöne…
This is what replaced Tenbun:「”Takoyaki/side dishes standing bar Peke x Peke”」
Tenbun closed on March 28, 2020. The space it occupied was empty for a year and a half. Then on October 10, 2021, a new shop opened, Peke…
Shailaja Paik, “The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India” (Stanford UP, 2022)
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India (Stanford UP, 2022) offers the first social and intellectual history of Dalit performance of Tamasha—a popular form of public,…
hypnotextiality syndrome
starting to see text everywhere, been editing other peoples work much.
Links & Contents I Liked 469
Hi all,This week’s not-so-good news from Lebanon, Ethiopia, North Korea & Syria found a positive counterpart with powerful, hopeful stories from women contributing to change-from Vanuatu, Sweden, Sout…
Affen
Die deutsche Kollegin ist ganz begeistert von den Affen, setzt sich in den Park, um sie zu beobachten, und möchte sie am liebsten auch mit Leckereien versorgen. Die…
Affen
Die deutsche Kollegin ist ganz begeistert von den Affen, setzt sich in den Park, um sie zu beobachten, und möchte sie am liebsten auch mit Leckereien versorgen. Die…