Proshant Chakraborty, PhD
@proshant.bsky.social
@frontlineanthro on Twitter | applied anthropologist | PhD in anthropology | infrastructure | gender | violence | movies | otherwise basic taste in pop culture | he/him/his
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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.
November 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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-...
November 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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...
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...
October 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“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...
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
August 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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.
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.
May 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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.
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
And in the PhD tradition, I suppose one nails their thesis before it nails them.
#PhDSky #AcademicSky
May 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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
And in the PhD tradition, I suppose one nails their thesis before it nails them.
#PhDSky #AcademicSky
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
Let’s remember the ones who care for, and fix, our broken world in a time of global crisis and violence.
#AcademicSky #AnthroSky #PhD
May 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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
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.
May 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This Orwellian nightmare nauseates me.
April 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Finally getting to watch this gem, which just released in Sweden!
March 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Finally getting to watch this gem, which just released in Sweden!
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
www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...
#newpublication #anthrosky #infrastructure
February 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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
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?
January 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
So, what Emilia Pérez is to Mexico is kinda like what Slumdog Millionaire was to India back in 2009, huh?
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A chilling (and almost certainly accurate) vision of the future of Meta from @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social www.garbageday.email?utm_source=w...
January 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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.
Calling it the “speak now or forever hold your peace” draft.
January 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Gonna send a final draft of my dissertation to the supervisors.
Calling it the “speak now or forever hold your peace” draft.
Calling it the “speak now or forever hold your peace” draft.
Telling a situationship apart from a nanoship is going to replace “telling a wink from a twitch” as the new anthropological shorthand for thick description. #AnthroSky
January 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Telling a situationship apart from a nanoship is going to replace “telling a wink from a twitch” as the new anthropological shorthand for thick description. #AnthroSky
Still waiting to watch All We Imagine As Light, but here’s my best of 2024! #letterboxd
January 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Still waiting to watch All We Imagine As Light, but here’s my best of 2024! #letterboxd
Finally got around to putting down my favourite songs of 2024.
December 30, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Finally got around to putting down my favourite songs of 2024.
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Not sure of the original source of this, but the depiction with the final domino set to crush the pusher is devastatingly accurate.
December 28, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Not sure of the original source of this, but the depiction with the final domino set to crush the pusher is devastatingly accurate.
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This is why the rhetoric of obsolescence is misguided. AI is not going to render humanities professors obsolete. AI is a permission structure to university administrators and state legislatures to continue shrinking our presence in education and defunding our research.
I can’t even fully grasp the anti-AI fury on this site. Were math profs like this when statistical software first came out?
December 27, 2024 at 1:37 PM
This is why the rhetoric of obsolescence is misguided. AI is not going to render humanities professors obsolete. AI is a permission structure to university administrators and state legislatures to continue shrinking our presence in education and defunding our research.
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At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
December 26, 2024 at 7:13 PM
At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.