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The contemporary politics of climate change—especially in places framed as “climate ground-zeros”—demands a recognition of and a reckoning with dystopia’s politics

‘I always keep a couple of empty oil barrels in the basement’, said Sigrún sitting comfortably on the sofa, ‘they’re great for making some noise, so you know, they’re very useful in case something’s happening’,

Jeff VanderMeer’s (2014) Southern Reach trilogy of weird fiction evokes a creeping relation between the strange territory called Area X and vertigo, a set of visceral

Ilinx: [By way of] a rapid whirling or falling movement, a state of dizziness and disorder (Caillois, 2001: 12). Covering a variety of transport … a disorder that may take organic or psychological form. The Greek term for ‘whirlpool’, from which is also derived

It’s barely two inches thick, that door that holds her world together. She slams it shut behind me, sweeping away the dust that snuck in from a porch whose iron rails

It happened when I opened an email from a friend who was living in Manhattan at the time. The experience of breaking free of a rural COVID lockdown and joining into dizzying scenes of urban play

When is it time? The question may be posed before taking a leap in life, perhaps to avoid a troublesome situation. The feeling is almost visceral, space and time are trembling or quaking

Two years after I had finished my fieldwork in the city of Murcia, Spain, I was in Germany when my phone began to vibrate intensely: it was the WhatsApp group

She feels fine except for the slight headache. But a few nights after falling on the ice rink, she does not recognise the reflective house numbers attached to her own mailbox

I feel the ground under my feet and the earth pulling me towards it. I see the street beneath me and the sky above. I can orient myself towards the ground and I know how to stand

Zahra had not seen her husband in over a year when he texted her urgently, telling her she had to get to the airport in Kabul to evacuate

The fleeting sensation of something that was once there, alive, embodied and is now gone is tantalizing. It leaves no tangible traces, no anchors.

One pertinent feature of vertigo is that it tends not merely to cause disorientation but also a freezing and arrest of movement. In such arrested movement

Completely disoriented, feeling dizzy, nauseous and not certain where I was or if I was asleep or awake, I sat up in bed with a jolt. Fearing that there were men using jack hammers to crash through the roof,

December 1932. A mark in time and a plan drawn on blank paper. A genesis. A date so recent that it could still exist as part of living memory

Have you ever felt like time was standing still, that you were trapped in a repeating spin-cycle? Perhaps you were suddenly aware of your presence in the present; peering down on yourself

‘Freedom!’, exclaims Ben during an interview conducted in Berlin in April 2019, ‘I desire only freedom: I want to choose where to live, which kind of job I can do

The COVID-19 pandemic was wind at the back for the transformation of European nation-states into laboratories for amplification of surveillance and movement control

If ‘hopeful dreams’ are the ‘stuff’ of which migration is made, as Samuli Schielke (2020: xiii) has recently remarked, then we need to ask what are the imaginary constructs that transpire

In the summer of 2020, the conveners of the International Forum on Wellbeing and Subjectivity across the Global South invited us1 to prepare a Panel to reflect critically on the notion

AT endorses the Brazilian Anthropological Association’s Motion to “Diversify Information and Education about the Global Anthropologies of Foreign Researchers and Anthropology Students

Solidarity, one might say, emerges through empathizing with the fate of others. Thereby, empathy is the rather affectively intuited than deliberately chosen response to an ethical obligation

This blog post assists in the treatment of a malady threatening social and cultural anthropology: epistemic anosognosia. If you got it, watch out

In 1976, the brand-new Maryland Science Center boasted a map of Baltimore that left out Curtis Bay—the city’s southernmost neighbourhood. A few years later, residents griped

From 2011 onwards, a protest has taken place in London each year on November 5th now known as the Million Mask March. Having been conceived by a handful

The futile condition of something always entails a judgment of value and this applies to politics too, this judgment may be based on a goal that has to be attained

A crowd of men in black clothing filled the open area in front of the cemetery and stretched back down the road to the village. These were not mourners however, but celebrants, and at periodic intervals

These videos were recorded in August 2019 in Luanda, Angola and were sent to me via WhatsApp by Hitler Samussuku, an activist from the so-called ‘Revús’ (short for Revolutionary Movement)

‘Invisible and free!’ So begins one of the more chaotic scenes in Bulgakov’s (1997[1966]) The Master and Margarita. After being granted the gift of flight, Margarita embarks on a euphoric rampage