An Audacious Vision
by Hanna Nieber
One of the telescopes in South Africa, image included with SALT’s permission. © Southern African Large Telescope. Words are in the world and of the world (Barad [...]
An Audacious Vision
Ke garne? What to do?
by Stefanie Mauksch
The photo shows the inside of a restaurant with vibrant tiled walls. Photo by Pexels, Pixabay. “We don’t want incense sticks, thank you,” the woman at the [...]
Co-Habiting in the Mode of Despite
by Lukas Ley
In late 2023, my friend and longtime resident of the Indonesian coastal city Semarang, Pak Puji, sent me a cellphone video displaying the spread of the water hyacinth on [...]
Documentary Dilemmas in Migrant Delhi
by Bani Gill
Hasnapur’s post office is a modest complex which also houses an Aadhaar (national identification number) registration center. Although the latter opens at 9 AM, applicants are advised to begin [...]
Salvaging a Sense of Possibility Despite Ecological Gloom
by Arne Harms
Nothing seems to be enough. Biodiversity is plummeting, pollution is ever on the rise, and global warming is a visceral presence. Efforts taken so far to mitigate or adapt [...]
Living in a Mode of Despite
by Rishabh Raghavan, Mascha Schulz, and Julia Vorhölter
How do people live in a world that is characterized by crisis, uncertainty, and a profound sense of not-knowing? How do people act, socially and politically, amidst conditions not [...]
Plastic humans everywhere!
by Christina Kefala
Photo by Xu Haiwei on Unsplash “I don’t even know who is human anymore? I open my phone and I am wondering if what I see is [...]
Stones to Music: Generational Transformations and Long-Term Ethnographic Engagements
by Jay Sokolovsky
It has now been more than 50 years since I conducted ethnographic research for my PhD dissertation in San Jerónimo Amanalco, a bilingual Nahuatl-Spanish speaking community high in the [...]
Imagining the Otherwise in Aging, Care, and Robotics
by Caitrin Lynch
As an anthropologist, I am drawn to fiction for how it can help us to see how people have made their lives in the past, how we live in [...]
Independence as Aspiration and Impossibility: Images from India towards the Ends of Life
by Sarah Lamb
“First of all, children are not commodities. They did not ask to be born, so they have every right to lead their lives in their own way. It is [...]
