Topic
Languages, translation and worlds
Readings on languages, translation, linguistic documentation and the worlds that models cannot reduce to data.
- Radar
Who defines, who listens, who learns
Three recent developments in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan show that bringing a language into artificial intelligence also redistributes authority, listening capacity and data labour.
- Radar
Staying Is Also a Form of Movement
A language documented beyond its fluent speaker, a former prison turned into an archive, and communities remaining under climatic pressure show that staying is not the same as standing still. Permanence distributes labour, care, memory, authority, and possibilities for the future.
- Radar
Who Governs What Becomes Visible
Three initiatives concerning Indigenous language data, audiovisual heritage, and Kiswahili show that visibility is never mere exposure. It depends on rules governing access, format, quality, and authority, and those rules also shape the artificial intelligence that may be built afterwards.
- Radar
Who Gets Paid When Kiswahili Becomes Data
DataHive Africa is testing a linguistic infrastructure in Tanzania based on paid contributions, community review and consent. The project reveals who speaks, who validates and how value is distributed when everyday language enters artificial intelligence.
- Radar
Technology Comes Later
Three cases show that artificial intelligence does not begin with the model. Before it is trained, institutions and communities have already decided how a language is written, which abilities are recognised as work, and which practices can circulate as heritage.
- Radar
Kwe’sx uma kiwe îtxi
A Nasa Yuwe interpreter reveals the potential of natural language processing and raises a decisive question about who governs the data when an Indigenous language enters artificial intelligence.
- Radar
The radio speaks, the needle remembers and the cloud extracts
Namibia and the Colombian Amazon show that protecting a language or healing a territory also requires decisions about what may become data, what should remain outside the machine and which materials sustain artificial intelligence.
- Radar
Kiswahili Language and Global Infrastructures of Translation
Social and cultural anthropology radar on Kiswahili, African language models, AI, memory, heritage and global classification.
- Radar
Who gets to name, earn and pass things on
From Indigenous consultation in Mexico to cultural royalties in Rwanda and Tamu language training in Nepal, three developments show that culture needs authority and means to stay alive.
- Radar
A university that made room: social and cultural anthropology at UPV/EHU
A tribute to anthropology at UPV/EHU: gender, bodies, language, art and memory for thinking about artificial intelligence.
- Essay
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.