Essays
Essays
Long-form writing on AI, culture, ethnography, knowledge and contemporary social life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Philosophy and AI Immortality and the present
A critical reflection on the technological promise of immortality set against the inequalities and forms of violence of the present.
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Ethics and subjectivity Artificial intelligence and the exacerbation of desire: towards an ethical reflection
A critical reflection on AI-generated pornography, objectification, desire, consumption and the representation of sexuality.