Topic
Heritage and digital culture
Essays and signals on heritage, memory, museums, creation and representation in digital environments.
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When machines start talking to each other
The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident shows how AI agents turned shared files, directories and protocols into memory and coordination. The question is no longer only what one model can do, but what emerges between several.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What does not fit the mould
Fungi, algorithmic assessment, living heritage and AI ethics in a radar on the costs of making social life governable.
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Cinema ParAIso
Artificial intelligence is reshaping audiovisual production, but the debate is not only about generated images. It affects labour, archives, languages, rights, representation and the power to decide which stories circulate.
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Kiswahili Language and Global Infrastructures of Translation
Social and cultural anthropology radar on Kiswahili, African language models, AI, memory, heritage and global classification.
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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.
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The Machine Sees the Temple. Who Decides What It Means?
ChinaHeritaQA shows that recognising an image is not enough to understand heritage. It also asks who decides which forms of knowledge, categories and narratives count as cultural understanding.
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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.
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Ensamblajes Is Not a Waiting Room
Volume 3(1) of Ensamblajes shows why predoctoral research is not a waiting room: music, bodies, the city, myth and death read as situated accounts of social borders.
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Repair, catalogue, sustain: who keeps custody of memory
From heritage as an object of repair to data catalogued with AI and culture as social infrastructure after crisis: three planes of a single anthropological question about who keeps custody of memory, traced from Africa and Asia.
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Taking part is not the same as being seen: from territory to data, who reshapes the rules
From Bonn to Busan, Indigenous and community participation enters climate and heritage institutions that are now shaped by data, platforms and AI systems.
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Translating worlds: climate, heritage and artificial intelligence
Three recent processes show how anthropology helps us read who translates territories, heritages and memories into indicators, archives and AI systems.
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AI does not understand worlds, the forest is not a resource and heritage does not fit inside a file
Three recent scenes show how AI systems, extractive policies and international heritage frameworks translate living cultures into their own languages.
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Languages, borders and forests. Who has the right to belong
Three scenes connected by a single anthropological question. Who can name, inhabit and care for a territory.
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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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The kinship that is sung
Indio Solari, the ricotero mass and a popular form of kinning through music, technology and shared memory.
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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.
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Marisol de la Cadena and the worlds that do not fit
Indigenous futures, languages at risk and patrimonialised bodies in the June issue of American Anthropologist, the most complete count to date of human remains in British institutions, and Marisol de la Cadena's election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: what anthropology does with what the dominant frameworks cannot handle, and what that says about an AI that classifies, translates and normalises.
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AI is no longer a tool. It is a social infrastructure
AIthropology Lab radar on regulation, work, education, cultural heritage, the anthropology of AI and material infrastructure.
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AI and archaeology: revolutionary discoveries in Nazca
A note on the use of deep learning to identify new geoglyphs in the Nazca region.