Contributing Editor
Juliana Friend studies digital media, sexuality, and Islam in West Africa, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between porn and pedagogy. She also co-created the experimental ethnographic archive www.many-to-many.net.
Posts by This Author
The Writing Group: In a Room Alone, Working Together
This post’s title might be a bit of a misnomer. For many of us, trying to meet on platforms like Zoom, Jitsi, or Microsoft Teams while alone isn’t always possib... More
Diapers and Other Queer Objects: An Interview with George Paul Meiu
In this conversation, Juliana Friend invites George Paul Meiu to reflect on technologies of citizenship in Kenya. Meiu’s fieldwork traces discourses about diape... More
Pedagogy at the Picket Line: Vulnerability and the Expanding Collective
In one memorable moment of A Possible Anthropology by Anand Pandian (Duke University Press, 2019), an undergraduate student asks the author an unexpected, disar... More
Programming Improvisation
In a recent article in Cultural Anthropology, Nick Seaver (2018) asks, “What should an anthropology of algorithms do?” Seaver urges anthropologists to avoid por... More
Algorithm as Co-Ethnographer: An Interview with Ritwik Banerji
In November 2018, I had a wide-ranging conversation with musician, programmer, and ethnomusicologist Ritwik Banerji, who had recently completed his PhD in ethno... More
Resources for Resistance: An Interview with Robin Kelley
Tracie Canada, Juliana Friend, and Sydney Pullen: How might education function as “counterspell,” in Jackie Wang’s (2018, 316) sense? Robin Kelley: Wang uses th... More
Anthropology of/as Revolutionary Dreaming
Dreams are not external to politics, affirmed Robin D. G. Kelley at the 2018 Culture at Large session. Rather, dreams constitute urgent political action in stru... More
Forum: Culture at Large 2018 with Robin Kelley
At the 2018 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Anthropology's signature Culture at Large session honored the work of hi... More
Recording: Culture at Large 2018 with Robin Kelley
This recording of the 2018 Culture at Large session presents the entirety of the discussion between Kelley, the three discussants, and the audience. At times, a... More