Proshant Chakraborty, PhD

I don't even know if the other promoted film is playing elsewhere in the world 😂

Seated for the Swedish premier for Hamnet at the Göteborg Film Festival 📽️🎥

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits.
AI poses a grave threat to students' cognitive development.

www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

You're welcome, Jathan! On a personal note, this book has become quite central to my postdoc project—will definitely share more details soon! :)

Book Review: The Mechanic and the Luddite - Society for the Anthropology of Work The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism, by Jathan Sadowski (2025). Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

Excited to share my review of ”The Mechanic and the Luddite” by @jathansadowski.com, one of the most important critiques of technological capitalism today, published in ”Exertions,” the Society for the Anthropology of Work’s short-form web publication:

anthrowork.org/book-reviews...

Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent

There we go. That there’s a headline.

The rise of deepfakes and AI CSAM prove public and private sectors don’t actually care about abuse, but still punish sex workers, queer people, and women under that guise. Credit cards companies and law enforcement punish consensual sex and sexuality, but ignore and therefore encourage abuse

Jesus Christ, these silicon valley tech elites are ignorant assholes...

Love this.

Additing this to list of liquid writing aids:

Riesling for writing, coffee for editing.

I've listened to several podcasts and read several articles on why people are souring on capitalism and they all don't mention Occupy which is weird to me because of nothing else they mainstreamed a lot of the language we use today. And it was a genuinely big deal at the time.

Now that @davechen.bsky.social is in the Old World for the foreseeable future, I can highly recommend the Göteborg Film Festival! goteborgfilmfestival.se/en/save-the-...

Another boom goes the dynamite review on my Letterboxd for #Bugonia, which means I am obligated to tag @davechen.bsky.social

“On the other hand, who hasn’t teared up in a Pixar film?”

But Pixar films and characters are crafted by humans, who tell human stories, for human audiences.

Analogies like this aren’t just wrong, they risk legitimising artistic and intellectual theft.

theconversation.com/what-ai-gene...

Thought @davechen.bsky.social might appreciate this. #boomgoesthedynamite

Happy to (re)share the first article I wrote based on my doctoral research, now published in Volume 90, Issue 3 of Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#phdone

Before Andor: Star Wars is the story of a simple farm boy who took down an Empire with the help of his friends.
After Andor: Star Wars is the story of a nepobaby who steals credit for the work of an organization he had little to do with.

In the Lutherian tradition, doctoral candidates at my university “nail” their theses in the main building prior to the defence.

And in the PhD tradition, I suppose one nails their thesis before it nails them.

#PhDSky #AcademicSky

Jesus, that's so messed up! I'm sorry to hear that!

Thanks, appreciate it!

Hot off the press! Still a long way to do with the defence (and impending unemployment), but so glad this exists.

Let’s remember the ones who care for, and fix, our broken world in a time of global crisis and violence.

#AcademicSky #AnthroSky #PhD

This Orwellian nightmare nauseates me.

Finally out in print!

(And available open access here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...)

Finally getting to watch this gem, which just released in Sweden!

And also check out the other fascinating articles in this issue:

From the Stockholm metro (Jenny Linblad), to the mining town of Kiruna (Elisa Maria López), and the former East German mining area of Geisaltal (Mareike Pampus).

This article is part of a special issue on Infrastructures and Environments in Late Industrialism, in kritisk etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology.

A huge thanks to the special issue eds.,
@chakadojani, Susann Ullberg & Asta Vonderau!

Read their intro: www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

Check out my latest article in this kritisk etnografi special issue, where I explore how Mumbai’s local trains are protected from unruly forms of matter—water, dust, crowd—that saturate the city’s environment.

www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

#newpublication #anthrosky #infrastructure

So, what Emilia Pérez is to Mexico is kinda like what Slumdog Millionaire was to India back in 2009, huh?

Under Zuckerberg’s new “censorship”-free plan, Meta’s social networks will immediately fill up with hatred and harassment. Which will make a fertile ground for terrorism and extremism. Scams and spam will clog comments and direct messages. And illicit content, like non-consensual sexual material, will proliferate in private corners of networks like group messages and private Groups. Algorithms will mindlessly spread this slop, boosted by the loudest, dumbest, most reactionary users on the platform, helping it evolve and metastasize into darker, stickier social movements. And the network will effectively break down. But Meta is betting that the average user won’t care or notice. AI profiles will like their posts, comment on them, and even make content for them. A feedback loop of nonsense and violence. Our worst, unmoderated impulses, shared by algorithm and reaffirmed by AI. Where nothing has to be true and everything is popular. A world where if Meta does inspire conspiracy theories, race riots, or insurrections, no one will actually notice. Or, at the very least, be so divided on what happened that Meta doesn’t get blamed for it again.

A chilling (and almost certainly accurate) vision of the future of Meta from @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social www.garbageday.email?utm_source=w...

Gonna send a final draft of my dissertation to the supervisors.

Calling it the “speak now or forever hold your peace” draft.