Political anthropology
What once destroyed presidents now elects them
From Watergate to AI, an anthropological reading of how visible transgression went from scandal to an infrastructure of power.
AI · Anthropology · Culture
AIthropology Lab
Exploring the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and Social and Cultural Anthropology
Today's radar
China and those who feed AI
Three researchers help us understand Chinese artificial intelligence from the street, the factory and the global infrastructure of data.
Long reads
Analytical writing on AI, the body, desire, longevity, power and social life.
NotesBrief observations
Notes on findings, papers, emerging technologies and cross-disciplinary encounters.
RadarSignals of the week
Brief, curated readings on anthropology, AI, culture, technology and contemporary social life.
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Anthropology and digital culture
Fabricated persons
Synthetic figures are not false persons, but fabricated persons. An anthropological reading of how an image comes to act as a person, a moral subject and a bearer of value, through the cases of Lil Miquela, Shudu and Lu do Magalu.
Anthropology and development
Ayiti: Trouillot, AI and a single finite world
A note on Haiti, international aid and the political economy of artificial intelligence, read through Michel-Rolph Trouillot, colonial memory and human kinship.
Language and anthropology
It is not enough that it speaks
Linguistics, anthropology and artificial intelligence. Why AI is not an isolated mind but an assemblage of signs, infrastructure and social experience that we would do well to de-fetishise.