This updates my previous report. This is an in-depth ChatGPT report that collects actual progress on the investigation, allegations, and other relevant information. PUBLIC RECORD RESEARCH REPORT Türkiye Investment Fund Crisis Tera, Pusula and the widening investigation 6 OCTOBER TO 9 NOVEMBER 2026 / TÜRKİYE TIME By early November, the investigation had reached former political … Read more
In white nationalists’ faces! These are reported wins or media projections as of November 4, rather than certified final results. “Elected” also does not mean the winners have already taken office.[cnn][abcnews] Nationwide historic firsts Person Office and party What makes the result historic? Keisha Lance Bottoms Governor of Georgia — Democrat First Black woman elected … Read more
Democrats won control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the November 3 U.S. midterm elections, putting Donald Trump on course to spend the final two years of his term facing a Congress controlled by the opposition. The gains reached into Republican strongholds such as Texas and Kansas. Some races remained uncalled as … Read more
The efficiency question Three episodes into the affirmative turn, the argument has a shape. In Episode 10 I defended slow time. In Episode 11, the encounter with what has not yet been written down. In Episode 12, the campus as the infrastructure that physically underwrites both. Each of these is something the university does that … Read more
Here are more thoughts on academic life! Episode 12 is at your service: What the university has that cannot be delivered Two episodes ago I argued that the university’s peculiar gift is slow time — the licence to sit with a question for fifteen years. In the last one I argued that its other gift … Read more
In a major shift in British foreign policy, the United Kingdom has announced a comprehensive ban on the import of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Unveiled on September 8, 2026, by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband under Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s administration, the move marks one of London’s strongest policy … Read more
One of the most exciting developments in my life is becoming a coordinator of a newly emerging center: Hekimbaşı Advanced Studies Center. We have a fantastic list of on-site seminars starting with Salvatore Maria Aglioti! Body, Brain, and Society: A Psychological and Neuroscientific Journey Salvatore Maria Aglioti Sapienza Università di Roma DATES 18–20 September 2026 … Read more
The global academic landscape is fiercely competitive, and the latest figures from the European Research Council (ERC) emphasize just how intense the pursuit of research funding has become. In September 2026, the ERC announced the awarding of 421 Starting Grants, totaling a massive €705 million investment under the Horizon Europe programme. While these numbers celebrate … Read more
View all our Gaza Verified people and please help them and their families if you can. بدك توثّق حسابك؟ انضم إلنا! The posts of Gaza Verified accounts are achived on the Gaza Verified Archive for posterity as first-hand witness testimony of the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. Our mission We exist to protect the … Read more
Ethnography, more important than ever The generative systems that have arrived in the last few years are extraordinarily good at a particular kind of intellectual work. Ask one of them what a body of literature says, and it will -mostly properly- summarize, cross-reference, and organize the written record with a facility no human scholar can … Read more
It was nice to catch up in Poznan, Poland, with my fellow anthropologists. I was here for this presentation: Saka, E. (2026, July 23). Sovereign AI and the Reproduction of Algorithmic Power: Governance Frameworks in the Global South. EASA2026: Anthropology: Possibilities in a Polarised World, Panel P018: Anthropology of Artificial Intelligence and Oppression [org. Sahana … Read more
We have a fresh new handbook, and the first substantive publication in my new research field is out! 11: Localizing the AI: an ethnography of balancing acts between the stakeholders in the periphery You can buy or access the whole handbook here. It is open access. Edited by Sahana Udupa and Peter Hervik This timely … Read more
In nine episodes (you can find them here), I have focused on some characteristics of the current academic life that is killing the university system -not any more- slowly: Nine episodes of administrative bloat, ranking obsessions, funding regimes that reward the wrong things, accreditation rituals nobody quite believes in, a journal hierarchy that has turned … Read more
Europe is in big trouble as Thermal cameras reveal intense heat for outdoor workers in Europe, the human toll increases, but Air conditioning creates political divide after France records hottest day and Europe is not ready for the climate crisis: Amid the heatwave, Europe needs a new urbanism Here is an in-depth report for the … Read more
https://commbox.org, the online database on international communication in the Global South with over 30,000 entries, has recently been launched. The site has a small section on Media Anthropology (65 titles), but you will find materials on Digital Cultures (80 publications), Culture & Media (392 titles) and on Nonwestern Communication Approaches (195 publications) as well. Explore … Read more