Book Review: Soviet Factography: Reality without Realism
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Book Review: Those Passions: On Art and Politics
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Exhibition Review: Embodied Attunement and Material Agency in Richard Tuttle’s San, Shi, Go
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Book Review: In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos
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Book Review: The Human Shutter: Photographs, Stereoscopic Depth, and Moving Images
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Anthropology of Toxicity
Uncertainty, disavowal, forgetting, and stigmatisation are common responses to toxicity: dumping grounds are habitually portrayed as ‘strange, alien spaces with no comprehensive histories’ (Little and Akese 2024). How can we best face this s…
Haunting Biology : Book Forum
Emma Kowal’s Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity (2023) investigates the history of biological and medical research about Indigenous peoples in Australia. This book forum invited contributors to provide nuanced insights that engage the…
Book Review: Anime’s Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai
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Exhibition Review: “Love Lessons: Tender Loving Care at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”
Toni Armstrong reviews the Collections Exhibition, Tender Loving Care, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Pluralising Cancer
This Review essay seeks to interrogate the vast category of ‘cancer’. Taken together, the three books explored here pluralise cancer, locating it not just in organs and bodies but also in time and space—in the social, material, and historica…
The Political Life of Research Ethics Committees And What It Means for Ethnographic Research
This review discusses three pieces of work, that is, a conference panel and two books, that deal with the role of research ethics committees (RECs) in regulating biomedical research and medical anthropological research. We summarise the pape…
Exhibition Review: Isaac Julien’s What Freedom Is To Me
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Book Review: The Cute
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Exhibition Review: Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s-Today
Museum of Contemporary Art 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL November 19, 2022–April 23, 2023 ICA Boston 25 Harbor Shore Drive Boston, MA 02210 October 5, 2023–February 24, 2024
Book Review: Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing
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Music Review: Holly Waxwing’s The New Pastoral
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Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics
Reviewed by Chelsea Wenzhu Xu, George Mason University David Houston Jones. Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics. London: Routledge, 2022. Questions of evidence and ethics in photography have been taken up by many theorists, as phot…
Book Review: Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics
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Life-Destroying Diagrams
Reviewed by Jacob Carter, University of Rochester Eugenie Brinkema. Life-Destroying Diagrams. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. 470 pages. Throughout Eugenie Brinkema’s Life-Destroying Diagrams, form is described as infinite, boundless, and generati…
Book Review: Life-Destroying Diagrams
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Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic
Reviewed by Hsin-Yun Cheng, University of Rochester Hentyle Yapp. Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 Pages. At first glance, the title of the book, Minor China, seems to counterintuitively bel…
Book Review: Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic
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Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art
Reviewed by Stefan Higgins, University of Victoria James J. Hodge. Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 220 Pages. The task of “pulling back the curtains” on computational technology has …
Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination
Reviewed by Luke Jarzyna, University of Rochester Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal, eds. Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 248 Pages. Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination (hereafter SPBI) brings toget…
What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
Reviewed by Anthony Ballas, University of Colorado at Denver Madina Tlostanova. What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 145 pp. Although the days of socialist realis…