The global pandemic has brought death uncomfortably close for many of us. The way our governments, economists, scientists, and fellow citizens have reacted and tried to govern

over life to keep death at bay over the past few months has emphasized how, as societies and as individuals, we relate to death and life.  As the months went by, [...]

Apparently Banksy’s anonymity and surreptitious art practice is costing him…big time. “Banksy has chosen to remain anonymous and, for the most part, to paint graffiti

on other people’s property without their permission, rather than to paint it on canvases or his own property,” the panel said. [...]

but I will remain as the real Emily; the Emily who owns the high-art Emily, and the one who wrote this essay, too. She will continue to carve out control where she can find

it. [...]

In the early summer of 2020 I submitted what I presumed was a final round of extremely minor revisions to an article that I’d been working on in one way or another since

2014. The article compares the ways in which contemporary private equity financiers and Inka accounting specialists manage labor, suggesting that the study of finance [...]

  In his summer statement, Rishi Sunak, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that VAT (Value-Added Tax) would be dramatically cut from 20% to 5% for the hospitality

and tourism sectors in the UK until the end of the year as part of a wider corona rescue package. [...]

‘Don’t come home this year’ is a short video about Romanian migrants returning home from Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic. The video uses viral live streamed footage

of returnees showing themselves stuck in transit on the 17th of March 2020 at the land border between Austria and Hungary, the Nikelsdorf-Hegyeshalom border crossing. [...]

Libraria is a collective of researchers based in the social sciences who seek to bring about a more open, diverse, community-controlled scholarly communication system. Since

2015, the group has explored alternative funding models for open-access publishing and helped catalyze the Berghahn Open Anthro initiative. [...]

Summer comes to an end, and some of us will start commuting again. Others will desperately wonder how to fill up the ‘spare’ time from their considerably shorter commute

between the breakfast table and the home office. [...]

There’s a lot of buzz during these Covid days concerning the employment of written agreements by artists. As I’ve indicated on this blog, this “practice” is nothing

new, if by new we mean this year or the last few years. What is interesting to me is to see how creative artists get. [...]