The Moral Economy of the English Football Fan in the Twenty-first Century
In late April of this year, it was announced that twelve of the wealthiest and best supported teams from across Europe would be competing in a new competition…
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This is the personal homepage of Grant Jun Otsuki. I’m a Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Recent Publications:In Anthropology Now: “…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Alina Méndez
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
My Reflections Two Years After Surviving a Classroom Shooting
Today marks two years since a classroom shooting happened while teaching my final class at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Six students were shot, two of which…
Infrastructuring an open access journal is easy, until it’s not
All respect to the Public Knowledge Project and Open Journal Systems. The ecosystem they’ve built over years is tremendous and respectable. For good reasons, “open access journal” h…
Members Matter. Meet Maria.
Members Matter. Meet Maria. …
Jaime A Alves: F*ck the Police! Murderous cops, the myth of police fragility and the case for an insurgent anthropology
‘Blue lives matter,’ says the mantra of police fragility. The mythology about defenseless officers being hunted and killed by criminals is indeed a powerful one, mobilized by right-wing…
Exploring Faith and Space with Hillsong Church
Mimicking a rock concert, I had to pre-book my space for the Hillsong service online before attending. Once on-site, I was scanned in by ushers with radios and…
2021 J. I. Staley Prize Awarded to Laurence Ralph for Renegade Dreams, Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago
2021 J. I. Staley Prize Awarded to Laurence Ralph for Renegade Dreams, Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago …
SAR Learns! $50,000 Awarded to Support Indigenous Artists
SAR Learns! $50,000 Awarded to Support Indigenous Artists …
SAR Remembers Marshall David Sahlins
SAR Remembers Marshall David Sahlins The Scho…
Holding Belief in Suspense
Some months ago, I went for an early morning run with a mate at my fieldsite. After a short trot together, she left for work, and I decided…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to John Arroyo
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
Ted Chiang on Artificial Intelligence
Ted Chiang is a science fiction author who wrote the story that became Arrival (via Metafilter). Recently in The New Yorker: How much can you optimize for generality?…
SAR Announces 2021-2022 Native Artist Fellows
SAR Announces 2021-2022 Native Artist Fellows …
GPT-Neo: An open source alternative to GPT-3
Access to GPT-3 remains limited, but “EleutherAI,” a “grassroots collective of researchers working to open source AI research,” has released GPT-Neo: GPT-Neo is the code …
A Brief Lindbergh Update
One of my more popular posts of late has been The Fall and Rise of Lindbergh: A Javelina Story. In that post, I tell the story of a…
The Pandemic Shift: The School for Advanced Research Annual Report
Historian C. J. Alvarez came to SAR to work on a project exploring the US-Mexico border as a bioregion and to challenge, through his writin…
Leivestad, Hege Høyer, Johanna Markkula and Elisabeth Schober: Beyond Suez. Escalating Ship Sizes and their Consequences
Stuck At the height of this pandemic’s third wave, with many of us sitting in what by now feels like an eternal lockdown, images of a gigantic ship…
What Is Your Worth? Re-evaluating Human Work in An Automated Future
A while ago I read something on Twitter that got me thinking. The tweet read something along the lines of: “What kind of sci-fi dystopia are we living…
Living Nations, Living Words, SAR Welcomes Joy Harjo
Living Nations, Living Words, SAR Welcomes Joy Harjo …
How to write a thesis, according to Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco, in How to Write a Thesis (from this excerpt): The language of the thesis is a metalanguage, that is, a language that speaks of other languages. A…
Join us for ‘Laboratory Life’ film launches
The Lab Life series investigates what seem like mundane lab practices, but are critical to scientific humility, accountability and equity.
Aliki Angelidou: “It is not the police that enters the universities, but democracy”: Greek universities as spearhead of an authoritarian turn
On February 22nd police forces entered the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, heavily beating many students, arresting 31 of them, and teargasing all those present, including…