Golem & AI: Technologically Advanced Monsters

Today, the phenomenon of the golem becomes a symbol of technological progress, especially in the form of modern android robots, raising important questions about technological singularity, subjectivity, and authorship (as presented in a number of legis…

Crimes, Criminals, and the Monstrous on Social Media

This article investigates how the Norwegian police’s Online Patrols contribute to the cultural production of monstrosity through their posts on social media. Drawing on theories of monstrosity as a shifting moral and cultural category, the study examin…

The Board’s Dilemma

Cryptids – animals that are sometimes observed but have not been scientifically verified – can be said to belong to the realms of myth or imagination. They are often strongly associated with particular regions and landscapes, and are therefore frequent…

The Desire to Escape that is not Escapism

This article offers a critique of the lord and bondsman scene from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (2004[1807]). The scene depicts the struggle between these two protagonists for recognition and material possessions. The outcome of the strug…

A Parent’s Formula of Medicine

In 2021, the BBC News released a video about a Chinese father making medicines at home to save his son. The father, Xu Wei, was around 30 years old, living in southwestern China. In 2020, his nine-month-old son had been diagnosed with Menkes syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that prevents the body from absorbing copper. Doctors told […]

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Political and Legal Anthropology at Times of War, Rising Authoritarianism, and Resistance: APLA Section Co-Editors’ Introduction

We write at a moment when the violence of war is reverberating across regions, institutions, and everyday life. Ongoing wars in the Middle East have laid bare the genocidal tendencies of both global and regional powers. In Gaza, Israel’s ongoing assault—enabled and sustained by Western military and financial support—has involved the systematic destruction of the […]

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With AI, It Seems a Fact: Things Act Back

This editorial opens the Spring issue of the Journal of Business Anthropology. The issue consists of a collection of nine themed essays on artificial intelligence (AI) and business anthropology, edited by Matt Artz and Adam Gamwell, who have also writt…