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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Turing Tests and ChatGPT’s Sleight of Hand

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  One of the many benchmarks for AI is the “Turing test,” Alan Turing’s adaptation of the “imitation game” where an interrogator must decide...
Friday, April 18, 2025

AAA Abstract Proposal: Summerland, Otherwise and and the Ghosts of Alternative Futures: the Limits of Multimodality in Anthropology and Spiritualism

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  As anthropologists work with collaborators in evoking alternatives to capitalist fascisms, they increasingly engage mul...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Multimodal Interrogations of Anthropologically Unintended Media - Video link

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Matt Durington and I had a wonderful time giving a talk at UBC Okanagan. Thanks to Dr. Fiona McDonald and the Collaborative and Experimental...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Multimodal Anthropology Talk - Tuesday, March 25 @ 3 pm EST

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NPS Ethnographic Report on Hampton Mansion National Historic Site

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An article in the Baltimore Banner by Rona Kobell ( https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/local-news/hampton-national-historic-site-e...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

CFP: 13 Ghosts of Multimodality

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      CFP: AAA 2025   13 Ghosts of Multimodality: Critiquing, Rejecting and Learning to Live with Multimodality’s Prob...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Cybernetics and Anthropology - Past and Present

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 I continue to wrestle with the legacy of cybernetics in anthropology - and a future premised on an anthropological bases for the digital.  ...