New project in evolutionary theory and cultural anthropology
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Generations: A Review of AusSTS2022 in Melbourne
In July 2022, early career and PhD Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars met across four locations in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand) for the fourth Australasian STS…
All These Worlds Are Yours Except Europa: Building Colonies without Colonization
First edition cover of 2010: Odyssey Two where the quote “all these worlds are yours except Europa…” is from. Beneath Europa’s frozen surface is an ocean thought to…
Photoshopping Desire: Gender, Caste, and the “Authentic” Self
Screenshot of the comments for the post by @photo_paparazzo, being discussed in the blogpost In an Instagram post by a photographer @photo_paparazzo, we see what the labor of…
Bioethics Must First Burn
Bioethics must burn before it can be reimagined to enable the flourishing of all humans, and not just the ones that align with or are presupposed by its…
Interactive Science Museums: Replicating Science Without a Context
“We want a different museum. One where people are not afraid to interact with the objects” were the words[1] of one of the promoters of the ITINTEC museum,…
PrEP on Trial: the Future of HIV in Indonesian Policy Worlds
In 2012, the first pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs, billed as a pill a day to prevent HIV, were authorized for use in the United States. Heralded as a…
Platypod, Episode Two: Ableism in Anthropology and Higher Ed
In this episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Laura Heath-Stout (Brandeis University) and Rebecca-Eli Long (Purdue University). They discuss their research and experiences of ableism in ac…
Counting on Montane Birds: Biologists, Verticality, and Territorial Defense in Colombia
This piece is about the unforeseen and sometimes overlooked connection between (i) birds living in the forests of Colombia’s high tropical Andes, (ii) local biologists supporting an anti-mining…
Monstrous Matter, Out of Place
The following is an autoethnographic comic about my experiences re-understanding a new diagnosis through revisiting Mary Douglas’s Purity and Danger. (And yes, the final panel is from a…
The Allowable Limit of Disability
This browser does not support HTML5 audio The Allowable Limit of Disability read by the author, Gabrielle Hanley-Mott In February 2022 a court in Norway …
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Epistemologies – The Line Between Bodies and Ideas?
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this piece read by Nathan Klembara A recent trend in the sciences is the attem…
Viral Entanglements in Malaysian Porcine Worlds
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this piece read by Kymberley Chu Content warning: This blog post contains photo…
Thinking in Constellations: Problematizing Indigeneity in the Atacama Desert, Chile
This browser does not support HTML5 audio . In October 2021, I flew from the capital of Chile to the driest desert in the world—the Atacama Desert, a…
Alliances and Institutional Partnerships for an Engaged Anthropology of Science and Technology
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to this post read by the authors here. Conceptual transformations and emerging thematic agendas in the a…
Powerpoint Karaoke, a Ph.D. Version
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this post read by Zhou Zhou “You win the lottery! You are a millionaire! You…
People Are Not Fixed Media
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this post as read by Ritwik Banerji Sensory ethnography continually emphasizes …
Climatic Futures and Tree Response-ability: Can Urban Forests Restore Human-Tree Relations?
Listen to an audio recording of this post read by Tayeba Batool This browser does not support HTML5 audio How do we account for the agency of trees…
Traveling but Not Arriving: Hieroglyphics of Caste in Computing
Listen to an audio recording of this post read by P V This browser does not support HTML5 audio When I landed in Bangalore in early 2020, it…
Netlicks and Chill: Digitalization and Food Politics in Taste the TV (TTTV) Technology
Listen to an audio recording of this post read by Antonio Oraldi This browser does not support HTML5 audio Digital technologies have increasingly penetrated asp…
From Amusement to Conscientization: The Purpose of Media Literacy in the Age of Misinformation
In one of my first classes in my Undergraduate program in Media Studies, our Professor displayed a prominent newspaper. The masthead and the front page borders were red…
Platypus in 2022
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Photo by the author. As the new year and the new semester have been off to (hopefully) a good start, Platypus…
Automating the Beast: Modern Police Power and the (Digi)Dog
As an undergraduate, I worked multiple jobs to make ends meet. For one of those jobs, I was a kennel attendant at a veterinary clinic and earned $7.75…
Confronting Legacies of Toxic Goodness: Speculative Reflections from the 4S 2021 Annual Meeting
This piece was originally posted on November 24, 2021 on the EnviroSociety blog here. To cite, please use the following: Caporusso, Jessica, Duygu Kaşdoğan, and Katie Ulrich. 2021.…