Alessandro M. Angelini
@aangelini.bsky.social
I think and write about cities, big and small. Professor @ Johns Hopkins University
Human authors! A little justice for you: search this database to find books that the tech company Anthropic has stolen to train its AI model. You're entitled to $1500 per work. Seems like authors deserve more - Anthropic is valued at $183bn...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Human authors! A little justice for you: search this database to find books that the tech company Anthropic has stolen to train its AI model. You're entitled to $1500 per work. Seems like authors deserve more - Anthropic is valued at $183bn...
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Remember that time celebrities were rumored to be buying real estate in Rio favelas?
I got an article officially out in the new issue of Cultural Anthropology! Special thanks to my co-author Gareth A. Jones and the editorial team at
@culanth.bsky.social
journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
I got an article officially out in the new issue of Cultural Anthropology! Special thanks to my co-author Gareth A. Jones and the editorial team at
@culanth.bsky.social
journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Remember that time celebrities were rumored to be buying real estate in Rio favelas?
I got an article officially out in the new issue of Cultural Anthropology! Special thanks to my co-author Gareth A. Jones and the editorial team at
@culanth.bsky.social
journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
I got an article officially out in the new issue of Cultural Anthropology! Special thanks to my co-author Gareth A. Jones and the editorial team at
@culanth.bsky.social
journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
October 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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When the Trump administration eviscerated the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health office in Morgantown, WV in April, they abruptly shut down life-or-death services for coal miners with black lung.
One of those miners decided to fight back—and won.
inthesetimes.com/article/west...
One of those miners decided to fight back—and won.
inthesetimes.com/article/west...
A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program
A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory Health Division after a veteran coal miner filed a class action lawsuit argui...
inthesetimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
When the Trump administration eviscerated the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health office in Morgantown, WV in April, they abruptly shut down life-or-death services for coal miners with black lung.
One of those miners decided to fight back—and won.
inthesetimes.com/article/west...
One of those miners decided to fight back—and won.
inthesetimes.com/article/west...
The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Na Argélia sob domínio francês, Frantz Fanon era psiquiatra e membro ativo da Frente de Libertação Nacional. Agora, um novo filme retrata seu compromisso com a luta anticolonial.
Os anos de Frantz Fanon na Argélia no cinema
Na Argélia sob domínio francês, Frantz Fanon era psiquiatra e membro ativo da Frente de Libertação Nacional. Agora, um novo filme retrata seu compromisso com a luta anticolonial.
jacobin.com.br
May 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Na Argélia sob domínio francês, Frantz Fanon era psiquiatra e membro ativo da Frente de Libertação Nacional. Agora, um novo filme retrata seu compromisso com a luta anticolonial.
One more item in the long list of stuff that amounts to a radical mass experiment on humans - yet there seems to be no control group
www.livescience.com/human-behavi...
www.livescience.com/human-behavi...
The constant surveillance of modern life could worsen our brain function in ways we don't fully understand, disturbing studies suggest
We live in an era of constant surveillance. Psychology research shows how this might change how we perceive the world — even unconsciously
www.livescience.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
One more item in the long list of stuff that amounts to a radical mass experiment on humans - yet there seems to be no control group
www.livescience.com/human-behavi...
www.livescience.com/human-behavi...
UnitedHealth is apparently claiming copyright ownership over images of Mangione and Deny, Defend, Depose on t-shirts and other merch.
www.404media.co/email/49070e...
www.404media.co/email/49070e...
Copyright Abuse Is Getting Luigi Mangione Merch Removed From the Internet
Artists, merch sellers, and journalists making and posting Luigi media have become the targets of bogus DMCA claims.
www.404media.co
December 23, 2024 at 1:13 PM
UnitedHealth is apparently claiming copyright ownership over images of Mangione and Deny, Defend, Depose on t-shirts and other merch.
www.404media.co/email/49070e...
www.404media.co/email/49070e...
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NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️
If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…
propub.li
December 19, 2024 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️
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For years, former Black Panthers have feared that the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after its notorious COINTELPRO program.
Malik Rahim had never been able to prove he was targeted. Now, government docs show he was correct.
Malik Rahim had never been able to prove he was targeted. Now, government docs show he was correct.
When the Feds Are Still Watching
Former Black Panthers fear the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after COINTELPRO. In at least one case, they were right.
www.thenation.com
December 20, 2024 at 10:39 PM
For years, former Black Panthers have feared that the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after its notorious COINTELPRO program.
Malik Rahim had never been able to prove he was targeted. Now, government docs show he was correct.
Malik Rahim had never been able to prove he was targeted. Now, government docs show he was correct.
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“[w]e are not witnessing a patriarchy or a matriarchy. What we are seeing is perhaps more interesting—a society in which, in many areas, the question of whether you were a man or a woman did not determine the life you could lead.”
Çatalhöyük: Its Story Continues - JSTOR Daily
Our understanding of the Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük continues to evolve as archaeologists challenge inherited biases in the face of new material evidence.
daily.jstor.org
December 13, 2024 at 7:12 AM
“[w]e are not witnessing a patriarchy or a matriarchy. What we are seeing is perhaps more interesting—a society in which, in many areas, the question of whether you were a man or a woman did not determine the life you could lead.”
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I am the kind of anthropologist who gets to the famous line from Malinowski's _Argonauts of the Western Pacific_ in here and notes that, no, it is not actually the first line of the book
avant-garde anthropology article composed entirely from the first sentences of other anthropology texts alert: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
You are reading the first sentence of this essay. In fact, outside of this abstract and a brief introduction, there are only first sentences in this essay, all collected from anthropology monographs ....
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 6, 2024 at 12:22 PM
I am the kind of anthropologist who gets to the famous line from Malinowski's _Argonauts of the Western Pacific_ in here and notes that, no, it is not actually the first line of the book
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I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...
Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can.
Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.
slate.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...
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Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research
Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it
www.nber.org/system/files...
Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it
www.nber.org/system/files...
November 18, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research
Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it
www.nber.org/system/files...
Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it
www.nber.org/system/files...
Folks, hold onto those "I voted" stickers. They'll become collector's items if this turns out to be the last election.
November 5, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Folks, hold onto those "I voted" stickers. They'll become collector's items if this turns out to be the last election.
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he calls her a marxist but she's not the one getting publicly owned
September 11, 2024 at 1:58 AM
he calls her a marxist but she's not the one getting publicly owned
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As we begin what is likely to be another tumultuous academic year, with administrators enacting strict policies to quell unrest, I thought I'd share — in case they're of use to others! — the 86pp of notes on campus surveillance + protest I collected for this article ⬇️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Surveillance space: urban infrastructures of control
On 10 May 2024, the Philadelphia Police Department and the University of Pennsylvania’s campus force...
www.architectural-review.com
August 26, 2024 at 1:52 AM
As we begin what is likely to be another tumultuous academic year, with administrators enacting strict policies to quell unrest, I thought I'd share — in case they're of use to others! — the 86pp of notes on campus surveillance + protest I collected for this article ⬇️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
New article from @jasonhickel.bsky.social et al. calculating the appropriation of labor and wealth from the global South by the global North. "Southern workers contribute 90% of the labour that powers the world economy, they receive only 21% of global income."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy - Nature Communications
Hickel and colleagues find that, in 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the global South, across all skill levels and sectors. Unequal ex...
www.nature.com
July 31, 2024 at 3:42 AM
New article from @jasonhickel.bsky.social et al. calculating the appropriation of labor and wealth from the global South by the global North. "Southern workers contribute 90% of the labour that powers the world economy, they receive only 21% of global income."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"Ministers from the G20 group of the world’s biggest developed and emerging economies are meeting in Rio de Janeiro this weekend, where Brazil’s proposal for a 2% wealth tax on those with assets worth more than $1bn is near the top of the agenda."
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
‘Morally, nobody’s against it’: Brazil’s radical plan to tax global super-rich to tackle climate crisis
A 2% global levy would affect about 100 super-rich families, says the country’s climate chief, but the $250bn raised could be transformative
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM
"Ministers from the G20 group of the world’s biggest developed and emerging economies are meeting in Rio de Janeiro this weekend, where Brazil’s proposal for a 2% wealth tax on those with assets worth more than $1bn is near the top of the agenda."
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK, a new documentary about the history of 4chan and how Internet shenanigans began to bleed into the offline world, just premiered at SXSW. Co-directed by my brother Giorgio Angelini and Arthur Jones. Here's the first review already out!
www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the...
www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the...
Is 4chan Malicious or Misguided? A Long-Overdue Doc Sees Both Sides
One of the most notorious places on the internet gets the biography it deserves in this fascinating documentary.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 11, 2024 at 1:12 PM
THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK, a new documentary about the history of 4chan and how Internet shenanigans began to bleed into the offline world, just premiered at SXSW. Co-directed by my brother Giorgio Angelini and Arthur Jones. Here's the first review already out!
www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the...
www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the...