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Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Benchmarking large language models (LLMs) is a key practice for evaluating their capabilities and risks. This paper considers the development of “BIG Bench,” a crowdsourced benchmark designed to test LLMs “Beyond the Imitation Game.” Drawing on linguistic anthropological and ethnographic analysis of the project's GitHub repository, we examine ...
Noya Kohavi, Anna Weichselbraun
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract From the beginning of widespread public interactions with ChatGPT and other large language models, some users have seen the disfluencies of chatbots as opportunities for them to go on an archaeological search for an unfettered chatbot persona that they need to jailbreak. These are not claims of sentience, but rather of personhood.
Courtney Handman
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Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This account explores how circumstances verging on the other‐worldly alter human perception and consciousness in a fieldwork situation. The case study involves an archaeological field survey team stranded for a time on a remote Lapland mountain.
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 55-75, February 2026.Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands and Causes and the National Family
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 103-113, January 2026.ABSTRACT Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the number of actors drawn into these conflicts.
John Nagle
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 455-476, December 2025.Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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Performative insights: The future‐in‐the‐now method for ethnographic data collection
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 2, December 2025.Abstract This article presents the innovative “Future‐in‐the‐Now method,” an ethnographic and theatrical approach designed for anthropological research, particularly effective for futures‐anthropologists and those exploring sensitive topics through arts‐based methods.
Roanne van Voorst
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Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 6, Page 623-640, November 2025.Abstract In recent scholarship, the dominant reading of Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal recurrence has been as a thought experiment. This paper responds to this in two ways. First, this paper relocates eternal recurrence in the context of Nietzsche’s abiding concern with the ‘preaching of death’, a powerful, life‐negating weapon of the ascetic ...
Mark Higgins
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ReligionsThe theme of the current Special Issue, ‘Faith in Action: Examining the Power and Purpose of a Public Theology in Contemporary Society’, leaves a lot of scope for definition.
T. Michael J. Earl
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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 22, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT A previous paper described and challenged Girard's extensive revisions and rejections of psychoanalytic ideas, further elucidating some of his egregious misunderstandings and erroneous claims. This paper continues by dissecting his problematic claims about religion, especially his dubious insistence that Christian revelation is the only ...
Jerry S. Piven
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