Ian Lowrie

It's time for a "militant and optimistic" anthropology of algorithms and automation. Check out our edited collection on "Algorithms and Automation" in @culanth, with awesome contributions from @npseaver, @dawnnafus, @bonnienardi & Hamid Ekbia! culanth.org/articles/963-a…

@haujournal it's like if you actively went on a campaign to convince people that you didn't understand why they were upset with you

We have produced a visual chart representing the changes in the organizational structure of HAU. Please circulate this to friends and acquaintances.

"Religious critique of artificial intelligence has more to offer than mere Luddism." Jon Bialecki on Mormon transhumanism and the moral problem of how virtual entities should be treated and understood: blog.castac.org/2019/02/gods-a…

@haujournal oh hey hau still exists

"Marxist writers like Eric Wolf have tried to find something similar operating among the Aztecs: Human sacrifice cemented the rule of the aristocratic elites — they were believed to literally gain their powers through eating the sacrificial victims" theoutline.com/post/1485/how-…

@npseaver it all makes sense now

@ThylacineReport taught martin's egg + sperm recently and it was wild how many of my FRESHMAN students reported feeling that way at the doctor. like, eighteen year old students.

EPIC2018 proceedings are here! 40 new papers and case studies in our open-access library of nearly 600 articles on ethnography & business, plus a little highlight reel for inspiration: epicpeople.org/epic2018-proce… #epiconference #ethnography #ux #business @AmericanAnthro @NapaAnthro

ah they edited the title out from underneath me

surely this will convince mexico to pay for the wall nytimes.com/2018/12/11/us/…

@npseaver media.giphy.com/media/aZ3LDBs1…

dear god

Transcription service errors: "I am whom by the way?"

Data & Society is thrilled to announce that @SareetaAmrute has been named our first Director of Research! datasociety.net/blog/2018/12/0…

How narratives about the disease leishmaniasis afford an oblique perspective on armed conflict in Colombia: blog.castac.org/2018/12/tweaki…

Platypus is looking for a new Editor and more Contributing Editors! blog.castac.org/2018/11/call-e…

@npseaver 1*

There's Christmas music on the radio in this Lyft.

Can anyone point me to information on how the @webofscience generates topic categories, and how they are assigned in the metadata for individual articles?

“So much of the infrastructure that's been deployed is right next to the coast, so it doesn't take much more than a few inches or a foot of sea level rise for it to be underwater,” “We live in a world designed for an environment that no longer exists,” a.msn.com/00/en-gb/AAAbW…

hey @npseaver you're in the news theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

"Skin is a boundary zone, an interface demarcating difference and closeness." Mitali Thakor (@mitalithakor) on her ethnographic work with robotic sex dolls and the people who build them: blog.castac.org/2018/11/roboti…