A year after the encampments, I've got a piece in Home/Field about the student claim that "WashU is everywhere" b/c of its complicity in the war economy vs uni attempts to oust protesters from the campus community: www.homefieldanthro.org/inside-and-o...

American Anthropologist just published an essay I "wrote" (it's composed entirely of first sentences from already-published anthropology journal articles and books). Please take a look if you're into that kind of thing.

doi.org/10.1111/aman...

"the text itself is nonsense, but it consolidates as an essay through the readers’ efforts to suture discrepancies into cohesion. If this essay makes any sense, it's due to a magic trick realism performs on us. This might be worth thinking about whenever we read something that makes sense." ♥️

"I'd like to say I got the idea from Christian Marclay's film, The Clock, [whose] narrative is driven by excerpts of movies that feature timepieces, but it probably came from a YouTube montage of Nicholas Cage screaming 'Fuck' 40 times in 40 seconds."

Cage clip reminds me of Simone Leigh's Uhura #3

This is 🤯

This is just hypnotic.

I am entranced.

This is a work of art.

Pointless. Hilarious. Bizarrely interesting.

And a sly commentary on what we do when we read the results of generative AI.

American Anthropologist just published an essay I "wrote" (it's composed entirely of first sentences from already-published anthropology journal articles and books). Please take a look if you're into that kind of thing.

doi.org/10.1111/aman...

avant-garde anthropology article composed entirely from the first sentences of other anthropology texts alert: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....