Wild Computing: a view from anthropology
Star computation scientist Stephen Wolfram has said that in order to accelerate the capacity of artificial intelligence towards a much more […] The post Wild Computing: a view from…
Star computation scientist Stephen Wolfram has said that in order to accelerate the capacity of artificial intelligence towards a much more […] The post Wild Computing: a view from…
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We can smell summer. Or we smell like summer. Either way, for the Allegra collective, it’s now the start of a break until September. No new content will…
Introduction Curating has become a popular concept in anthropology in recent years, extending beyond traditional museum and gallery contexts to encompass social media profiles, feeds, websites, and al…
What you are about to read is not fiction, but neither is it fact. It is a catalogue of illnesses that do not exist, at least not in…
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The culture of fear instilled by the increasingly right-leaning structures of power that govern public spaces and our universities in the Global North have led to the silencing…
I grew up in an area surrounded by miombo woodland, located approximately 200 kilometres southeast of Lake Tanganyika. In the early 1990s, when I was five, my father…
I am going to start with breathing what I push out of me and what you push out of you and what we push out of each…
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is awaiting the results of a membership vote on a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions submitted in response to a solidarity call…
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