Essays
Essays
Long-form writing on AI, culture, ethnography, knowledge and contemporary social life.
Anthropology of developmentFrom Truman to Pax Silica
How development returned as technological security
Anthropology and artificial intelligenceAI Does Not Evolve Alone
Anthropological approaches to reading artificial intelligence as progress, classification, labour, infrastructure and a struggle over power.
Political anthropologyWar Does Not End Where the Bomb Falls
Ukraine, Iran and an anthropology of peace in the age of algorithmic war.
Political anthropologyWhat 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.
Anthropology and digital cultureFabricated 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.
Language and anthropologyIt 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.
Philosophy and AIImmortality and the present
A critical reflection on the technological promise of immortality set against the inequalities and forms of violence of the present.
Ethics and subjectivityArtificial 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.