Launching a Critical Data Studies Lab
My colleague Sumin Myung and I are launching a Critical Data Studies Lab at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington on Friday 13 November 2026.
My colleague Sumin Myung and I are launching a Critical Data Studies Lab at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington on Friday 13 November 2026.
On October 16th, 2024, I found myself unemployed. While some say unemployment can be a time to relax and catch up on sleep, this really wasn’t the case.…
Digital tools, such as WhatsApp, have offered methodological opportunities for connection, data collection, and the democratization of knowledge production, in part because they are easily accessible …
Hasn’t the sheer abundance of chit-chat made criticism, and even journalism you pay for, obsolete? Articles that would bug most people aren’t even read because something else more…
Richard McNeil-Willson critiques sensationalised and unethical approaches to researching so-called “extremist” groups, responding to popular accounts that celebrate deception, infiltration, and person…
In January of 2026, I found myself as an instructional assistant in a fifth-grade English Language Arts class, where I would work with small groups to improve students’…
In the early 1970s, the socialist state of Bulgaria was starting to develop a series of interconnected systems for the automated governance of different areas of social and…
Elliðaey Island, in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago off the coast of Iceland, hosts one of the world’s largest populations of Leach’s storm-petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous), a small seabird specie…
In Two Paths to Prosperity, economists Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr and Guido Tabellini examine why Europe and China took such different development trajectories, pointing to the contrasting social…
This essay ethnographically examines the maintenance of small-scale digital publishing infrastructures and the shifting culture of software work under generative AI. The post Code from nowhere appeare…
This article proposes filming as a response to threat in addition to the commonly recognised responses, fight, flight and freeze. The post Fight, Flight, freeze, Film appeared first…
Canal do Búfalo[1] was a prominent Brazilian online community in the 2010s, composed almost entirely of men. In this forum, members symbolically identify themselves as “buffaloes,” drawing inspiratio…
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Over the past decade, Pakistan has been steadily expanding its digital security, policing, and surveillance architecture, which is sensorially and materially altering how security is experienced and e…
2008. “Martin Heidegger Goes to the Movies.” In, Cultural Politics in a Global Age (112–119). Oxford: One World. Was never really satisfied that I had understood Heidegger in…
Yuliya Grinberg. 2025. Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. […] The post Ethnography of an Int…
Leftists, because on the whole we are mostly (and rightfully) not all that excited about AI as it exists today, are often accused of being luddites or of…
ANTH 3354 – Anthropology of Hunting Spring 2026 As the instructor for this course, I reserve the right to adjust this schedule in any way that serves the…
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukrainians have been gathering to support the war effort by creating camouflage nets for fighters on the frontlines. ✽ On a hot…
One sunny afternoon in March 2024, I walked into a flea market in Chengdu, China — a labyrinth of book stalls, shadowed corridors, and a handful of solitary…
Only adding this to the archive – tanks are not needed just now in Indonesia. It is a Matilda Tank of the 2/9th Australian Armoured Regiment in Tarakan…
Andreas Malm. 2024. The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth. London. New York: Verso Urgency is the word that […] The post The Destruction of Palestine is…
If you work at a university, you’ll know that Open Days are an important recruitment event. Universities here in Aotearoa are facing increasing financial challenges (a result of…
In 2015, I was back in India’s capital city, Delhi after two years of fieldwork in villages in rural parts of the country. On my return, the city…