Arctic roads and railways: social and environmental consequences of transport infrastructure in the circumpolar North

O Povoroznyuk, WF Vincent, P Schweitzer… - Arctic …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Land-based transport corridors and related infrastructure are increasingly extending into
and across the Arctic in support of resource development and population growth, causing …

The Thick Machine: Anthropological AI between explanation and explication

AK Munk, AG Olesen, M Jacomy - Big Data & Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
According to Clifford Geertz, the purpose of anthropology is not to explain culture but to
explicate it. That should cause us to rethink our relationship with machine learning. It is, we …

[图书][B] Climatic media: Transpacific experiments in atmospheric control

Y Furuhata - 2022 - books.google.com
In Climatic Media, Yuriko Furuhata traces climate engineering from the early twentieth
century to the present, emphasizing the legacies of Japan's empire building and its Cold …

[图书][B] Continent in dust: experiments in a Chinese weather system

JC Zee - 2022 - books.google.com
In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing
meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have …

'What is infrastructure? What does it do?': anthropological perspectives on the workings of infrastructure (s)

L Kanoi, V Koh, A Lim, S Yamada… - Environmental Research …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Infrastructure is often thought of in big material terms: dams, buildings, roads, and so on.
This study, instead, draws on literatures in anthropology and the social sciences to analyse …

Governing beyond capacity: Engineering, banality, and the calibration of disaster in Mexico City

D Chahim - American Ethnologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
How are disasters made into routine, even banal parts of everyday life? In Mexico City the
spatiality and temporality of disasters have become an object of dynamic governmental …

Can You Ear Me? A Comparison of Different Private and Public Notification Channels for the Earlobe

D Stanke, T Duente, KC Demir, M Rohs - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The earlobe is a well-known location for wearing jewelry, but might also be promising for
electronic output, such as presenting notifications. This work elaborates the pros and cons of …

[图书][B] Multisituated: Ethnography as diasporic praxis

KS Rajan - 2021 - books.google.com
In Multisituated Kaushik Sunder Rajan evaluates the promises and potentials of multisited
ethnography with regard to contemporary debates around decolonizing anthropology and …

[图书][B] The immersive enclosure: Virtual reality in Japan

P Roquet - 2022 - degruyter.com
INTRODUCTION 1. I occasionally experienced this night-sky view using the original Oculus Rift
(2016). The phenomenon appears to Page 1 INTRODUCTION 1. I occasionally experienced …

Wound Culture

H Solomon - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This review offers new perspectives on the anthropology of injuries and wounds. It maps
how theories, methods, and ethnographic sensibilities converge on wounds, on the act of …