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Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Although we live in the Anthropocene—the geological age of humankind, wherein humans have measurably impacted the biosphere—we struggle to narrate the Anthropocene. In particular, we struggle to give narrative shape to its foremost feature: anthropogenic climate change.
Mark Celeste
wiley   +1 more source

Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toxic Entanglements: Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the outsourcing of asylum processing and resettlement from Global North to South. Many of these containment practices retrace the fault lines of more typically thought‐of colonial extractive regimes. This article draws on long‐term ethnographic research conducted in the Republic of Nauru, the world'
Julia Morris
wiley   +1 more source

Networks and Subjectivity in Contemporary French Philosophy - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.35en

RECIIS, 2007
This article presents three different perspectives on networks in contemporary French philosophy, in particular the thinking of Paul Virilio, Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour.
André Parente
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¿Sujetos o "actantes"? El constructivismo de Latour y la Psicología Constructivista [PDF]

Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red, 2009
Bruno Latour es sin duda uno de los autores actuales más influyentes en teoría de la ciencia y en la teorización de algunas disciplinas particulares como la antropología, la sociología e incluso la psicología.
José Carlos Loredo Narciandi
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The social, cosmopolitanism and beyond [PDF]

, 2009
First, this article will outline the metaphysics of ‘the social’ that implicitly and explicitly connects the work of lassical and contemporary cosmopolitan sociologists as different as Durkheim, Weber, Beck and Luhmann. In a second step, I will show that
Appiah, K.A., Beck, U., Beck, U., Beck, U., Beck, U., Beck, U., Beck, U., Brennan, P., Callon, M., Castoriadis, C., Cheah, P., Deleuze, G., Durkheim, É., Durkheim, É., Durkheim, É., Durkheim, É., Foucault, M., Gasché, R., Grosz, E., Heidegger, M., Hetherington, K., Kant, I., Latour, B., Latour, B., Law, J., Law, J., Lee, N.M., Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Michael Schillmeier, Simmel, G., Stengers, I., Tarde, G., Tarde, G., Tarde, G., Tarde, G., Urry, J., von Foerster, H., Weber, M., Whitehead, A.N.   +40 more
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Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 150-166, March 2026.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
wiley   +1 more source

From the manager's point of view: work intensification, posthuman ethnography, and healthcare in England Du point de vue des managers : intensification du travail, ethnographie post‐humaine et soins de santé en Angleterre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 75-93, March 2026.
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a hospital in Greater Manchester, England in 2016–17, we describe how a set of national health priorities were translated into work for hospital managers and clinicians during a period of significant organizational pressure.
Adam Brisley, Simon Bailey, Thomas Blakeman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Filosofía orientada a los objetos y la comprensión de las realidades científicas Object-oriented philosophy and the comprehension of scientific realities

Athenea Digital, 2011
En este ensayo reflexiono sobre el primer tratado consagrado a la metafísica de Bruno Latour, la obra de Graham Harman Prince of Networks.
Paloma García Díaz
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Bruno Latour and Artificial Intelligence

Tecnoscienza
This scenario discusses generative AI in light of Bruno Latour’s sociology of technology. It considers why Latour showed little interest in the simulation of intelligence and how connectionist AI fails to meet his condition for scientificity but offers a
Tommaso Venturini
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