Nov 11 2024
In this post, Ceall Quinn describes multispecies smellwalking, a method for attuning to olfactory pollinator relations in urban ecologies.
Oct 28 2024
In this post, Bruno Magalhães elaborates the concept of "leakage" as a lens through which to examine the hidden costs of externalized border controls. The concept allows us to address that which both escapes and reshapes containment.
Oct 7 2024
As part of her PhD project on the transformation of the concept halal in Indonesia, Arum Budiastuti offers a reflection on how technology-based halal certification introduces a new meaning of halal and what implications this has.
Aug 12 2024
In this timely post, A.R.E. Taylor, an anthropologist of technology and Senior Lecturer in Communications at the University of Exeter reflects on the wider socioeconomic issues underpinning the CrowdStrike IT outage that occurred on Friday 19th July 2024.
Jul 29 2024
The globalization of the academic work prompted an increased flux of scholars in international conferences in all fields. In this piece, Noela Invernizzi and Sofía Foladori-Invernizzi explore how transnational 4S meetings have become, as a response to their own field’s critique of its Euro-American-centrism.
Mar 25 2024
Jumping spider "song and dance" can serve as a generative entry point for staging broader disruptions in the misogyny and cisheterosexism that have long underwritten scientific studies of animal behavior.
May 15 2023
In this post, Sylvanus Doe wonders what a Japanese Garden was doing on a rooftop in the Central European University (CEU), Hungary. His experience with the Japanese Garden at the CEU prompts him to ask a pertinent question: 'Is global sustainability possible?'
Jul 24 2023
In this blog post, Ludovico Rella delves into the GPU computing hardware behind recent advances in AI to reveal a site of epistemological, geopolitical, and economic significance worthy of closer inquiry.
Mar 21 2020
Call for contributions from the 4S community in response to COVID-19. We are looking to put together a rough and iterative toolkit and a range of sources for 4S readers to think together around issues raised by the current coronavirus pandemic. Expected publication date for April 2020.
Mar 20 2020
Is Brazil's new environmental plan dismantling its green agenda? In this article, Diogo Lopes de Oliveira and Ronaldo P. Santos explore how the government is making decisions waiving science, denying it, and exacerbating problems with the use of rhetoric.