Excited/terrified to see that Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds Without End has a launch date of March 1st. Get it on Amazon, or at a real bookstore and ever so slightly retard Bezo's hostile takeover of the solar system.

RT @CSSHJournal: In our new Under the Rubic feature, "After Life," @jonbialecki and Jeanne Kormina discuss Mormon transhumanism, the remain….

RT @CSSHJournal: Also new on FirstView: @jonbialecki's "The #Mormon Archive’s First Ten Thousand Years: Infrastructure, Materiality, Ontolo….

There is an incredible amount of excellent work being done in Brazil, and I'm pleased that my co-editors and I had a small role in making sure that it can be a part of the wider anthropological conversation.

I'm particularly proud to be associated with this title because this is a book that, absent our book series and the Balzan project (the organization that paid for translating this manuscript), might not have been made available to English language scholars.

MAIL CALL: happy to get a copy of the latest book from the book series I edit with James Bielo, Naomi Haynes Zhu, and Hillary Kaell. #anthropology #ethnography

RT @BerghahnAnthro: "Sexbots Playing the Imitation Game" by Jon Bialecki is available to read now #OpenAccess from the latest issue of Soci….

RT @WestLondonMan: Terrific reflection - in an anthropological key - on revival and the Asbury revival in particular by @jonbialecki Makes….

RT @biqbal: nice forum on andreas bandak's _exemplary life: modelling sainthood in christian syria_

RT @BloomsburyRS: 🚨 New paperback alert!. Edited by @Eric_Hoenes, @roscoe_loustau, and Kristin Norget, Mediating Catholicism examines how C….

In the latest edition of Suomen Antropologi, Ilana Gershon with a thought-provoking linguistic #anthropology analysis of ChatGPT & other LLMS as "genre machines" #AI #ethnography

RT @mbbowman: I wrote a thing about the various ways Mormons have interpreted UFOs.

The review is part of a larger forum in Wayfarer magazine on AI and features other really considered and insightful essays by, among others, @cayblood and @bjpeters.

A really thoughtful and generous review of my book _Machines for Making Gods_, with the reviewer writing from a faithful Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints standpoint.

RT @mbbowman: If you're unsure if you want to learn more about alien abduction and its relationship with politics, religion and race in the….

RT @lukasik_c: Very happy to see that my article: "Beyond Church and State: Contentions of Minority Citizenship in Egypt" has been publishe….

RT @AshleyLebner: Thank you, readers! 🙏 Wow, after 4.5 years my article in Anthropological Theory is still one of the most read in the jour….

A characteristically brilliant article from Courtney Handman on the links between language, humanity, and deception - with a wonderfully audacious scope running from late 19th century Papua New Guinea to 21st century artificial intelligence:

RT @JeanneTheoharis: This Thursday at 6:30! Join us online for a conversation on Black faith with @todnethomas, @MelissaFordPhD, and Su'a….