Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together
The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...
"‘The dry and the wet burn together’ is a Persian expression invoked when a fire spreads without discrimination. Once the blaze begins, distinctions collapse: between the combustible and the damp, the guilty and the innocent, perpetrators and victims."
05.03.2026 09:28
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Amoxtli | OtherwiseMag
In this issue, we encounter the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca, a Mesoamerican sacred manuscript, through the stories and poems of its cultural inheritors
OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT! Amoxtli is OUT!
In this issue, we encounter the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca – the Book of the Smoking Mirror – a Mesoamerican sacred manuscript, through the stories and poems of its cultural inheritors:
Amoxtli is curated by José Sherwood González
www.otherwisemag.com/amoxtli
27.02.2026 15:53
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On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare
“A book is a powerful weapon, it can defend you in your mind.” —Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin French theorist Pierre Bourdieu once described photography as the art of the middle class. The wealthy know exp…
“The present moment is stacked with countless op-eds advocating for education to be “useful” and practical and think pieces which lament the decline of student interest in reading, without an analysis into the neoliberalization of education, and who this serves”
lithub.com/on-the-so-ca...
23.02.2026 16:04
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The Certainty of Legal Labor: Meliorist Legalism and Endurant Hope in Hindu Nationalist India
Emergent Conversation 25 This essay is part of the series First Responders: Crises, Indeterminacies, and (Joyful) Determination in the Global South By Sandhya Fuchs Protests After Death Of Hathras …
Sandhya Fuchs, winner of the 2025 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology for Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India (Stanford University Press, 2025), contributed this open access essay to PoLAR Online. The essay is part of Sana Malik's series, First Responders: wp.me/p68wh0-539
13.02.2026 23:29
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The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology is looking for a new Editorial Team. You can apply here: docs.google.com/document/u/1...
Could you please share this call? @anthroencyclo.bsky.social @aaas.org @anthrofuentes.bsky.social @appliedanthro.bsky.social @histanthro.org @polar-journal.bsky.social
16.02.2026 09:28
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When the state socialises risks through public funding, the public must share in the rewards. The task for Trump is not to abandon industrial strategy or to reactively take equity stakes but to learn what went right and wrong in Silicon Valley.
Read here ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/marianam...
14.02.2026 09:00
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The new issue of SAQ is out, featuring my article on Roma workers and the disciplining of labour under Czech racial capitalism:
read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
13.02.2026 09:37
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Training, Contingency, and Academics in Graduate Student Labor
Graduate student labor confounds the assumptions of meritocratic professionalism.
"This separation has facilitated the positioning of graduate labor at the end of value-creation inside academia—that is, as a more efficient way for the university to extract teaching and research labor while pay and benefits are considerably lower."
06.02.2026 00:57
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To disrupt and organise against the genocidal war machine, it is necessary to understand the internal mechanisms of Israeli violence, which span historic Palestine, and are intertwined with the global capitalist system.
05.02.2026 14:57
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Where Have All the Workers Gone? Re-Imagining Labor in the Post-Pandemic World
This Hot Spots series zooms in on the images and re-evaluations of work/labor and changing position of workers in the aftermath of the pandemic. ...
Cultural anthropology latest Hot Spots Series, “Where have all the workers gone?” is both "an empirical question that ethnographers often encounter in the field" and "an epistemological reflection on where anthropologists today locate labor, work(ers), and their struggles"
01.02.2026 17:21
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On Refusal and Toxic Industrialization: An Interview with Rishabh Raghavan
In this interview, Rishabh Raghavan discusses his encounter with everyday life in Ennore, as residents contest authoritative discourse on polluti...
In this interview, anthropologist Rishabh Raghavan reflects on the role of refusal not only in his work theorizing labor and toxicity in southern India, but also in his interactions with his interlocutors - fishermen who refused certain lines of inquiry. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
21.01.2026 23:33
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An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought
Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since Italian theo…
New book officially out 🚨
If you ever wanted to know what Italian philosophy has been up to in the last 10-20 years, look no further. “An introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought” is out today with chapters on cyberfascism, technology & work, pandemic biopolitics, and posthumanism.
22.01.2026 10:41
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Yes - I got that but thanks for the clarification!
19.01.2026 16:21
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Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
Recent polling shows the majority disapprove of how ICE operates. But to truly stop the damage requires going further: it means eradicating the security logic that ever made people think that arming a secret police on an ethnic cleansing mission could ever make safe
19.01.2026 13:34
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Use of fixed-term posts ‘stifling more critical research’
Scholars with short contracts seen as more likely to favour doing ‘safer’ work, with ‘serious ramifications’ for their disciplines
'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.'
Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
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by the way, ANUAC is the journal of the Italian Association of Cultural Anthropology!
13.01.2026 07:39
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Please consider sending an abstract for the ANUAC special issue “The anthropology of prediction:Knowledge, divination&algorithmic futures” edited by Maria Spagnoli and Giuseppe Tateo. Drop the editors a short abstract of 300 words by 1 February 2026.
See you published in 2026 (or perhaps perished)
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@anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
Editorial Collective invites contributions to P 159 “The work of resistance: possibilities of labour in polarizing worlds” at #EASA2026
CfP closes on 26 Jan 26
See you in Poznan!
#anthropology
@saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
06.01.2026 17:49
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Venezuelan president Maduro captured and flown out of country following ‘large scale’ US attack, Trump says – live
US president says ‘the United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela’
The Empire strikes back, not just to grab oil and other riches but, fundamentally, to hide its own weakness at home – and to prepare the ground for subjugating its own people, in Chicago, Portland, NYC etc. Meanwhile, a vassal Europe watches in silence... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
03.01.2026 10:06
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Happy to share this open access article I co-authored with Dimitrios Theodossopolous
“On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology” anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
01.01.2026 17:01
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“Research had long lost its luster for me, though I appreciated the lifestyle. Research was the game I had to play to maintain this lifestyle. Exciting, it was not, but sometimes I’d enjoyed aspects of it. Now it felt insufferable.”
28.12.2025 17:34
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Book Review: A Thousand Tiny Cuts - Society for the Anthropology of Work
A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh (2023)
Check out this book review in Exertions (SAW’s short-form web publication): Radhika Moral's review of A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh. If you would like to review a book, please reach out to our editors.
18.12.2025 11:54
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Rounding out our list of most-read articles published in 2025 is Jose Leonardo Santos's "'Eliminate anthropology': Attitudes toward social science in the public discourse" #Anthropology
doi.org/10.1111/aman...
16.12.2025 18:20
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