Proshant Chakraborty, PhD
@frontlineanthro on Twitter | applied anthropologist | PhD in anthropology | infrastructure | gender | violence | movies | otherwise basic taste in pop culture | he/him/his
- Seated for the Swedish premier for Hamnet at the Göteborg Film Festival 📽️🎥
- Reposted by Proshant Chakraborty, PhDThe risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits. AI poses a grave threat to students' cognitive development. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
- Excited to share my review of ”The Mechanic and the Luddite” by @jathansadowski.com, one of the most important critiques of technological capitalism today, published in ”Exertions,” the Society for the Anthropology of Work’s short-form web publication: anthrowork.org/book-reviews...
- Reposted by Proshant Chakraborty, PhDThere we go. That there’s a headline.
- Reposted by Proshant Chakraborty, PhDThe rise of deepfakes and AI CSAM prove public and private sectors don’t actually care about abuse, but still punish sex workers, queer people, and women under that guise. Credit cards companies and law enforcement punish consensual sex and sexuality, but ignore and therefore encourage abuse
- Jesus Christ, these silicon valley tech elites are ignorant assholes...
- Love this. Additing this to list of liquid writing aids: Riesling for writing, coffee for editing.
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- Now that @davechen.bsky.social is in the Old World for the foreseeable future, I can highly recommend the Göteborg Film Festival! goteborgfilmfestival.se/en/save-the-...
- Another boom goes the dynamite review on my Letterboxd for #Bugonia, which means I am obligated to tag @davechen.bsky.social
- “On the other hand, who hasn’t teared up in a Pixar film?” But Pixar films and characters are crafted by humans, who tell human stories, for human audiences. Analogies like this aren’t just wrong, they risk legitimising artistic and intellectual theft. theconversation.com/what-ai-gene...
- Thought @davechen.bsky.social might appreciate this. #boomgoesthedynamite
- Happy to (re)share the first article I wrote based on my doctoral research, now published in Volume 90, Issue 3 of Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- In the Lutherian tradition, doctoral candidates at my university “nail” their theses in the main building prior to the defence. And in the PhD tradition, I suppose one nails their thesis before it nails them. #PhDSky #AcademicSky
- Hot off the press! Still a long way to do with the defence (and impending unemployment), but so glad this exists. Let’s remember the ones who care for, and fix, our broken world in a time of global crisis and violence. #AcademicSky #AnthroSky #PhD
- This Orwellian nightmare nauseates me.
- Finally out in print! (And available open access here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...)
- Finally getting to watch this gem, which just released in Sweden!
- Check out my latest article in this kritisk etnografi special issue, where I explore how Mumbai’s local trains are protected from unruly forms of matter—water, dust, crowd—that saturate the city’s environment. www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di... #newpublication #anthrosky #infrastructure
- So, what Emilia Pérez is to Mexico is kinda like what Slumdog Millionaire was to India back in 2009, huh?
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[Not loaded yet] - Gonna send a final draft of my dissertation to the supervisors. Calling it the “speak now or forever hold your peace” draft.
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- Telling a situationship apart from a nanoship is going to replace “telling a wink from a twitch” as the new anthropological shorthand for thick description. #AnthroSky
- Still waiting to watch All We Imagine As Light, but here’s my best of 2024! #letterboxd
- Finally got around to putting down my favourite songs of 2024.
- 40 year anniversary #Terminator
- Reposted by Proshant Chakraborty, PhDNot sure of the original source of this, but the depiction with the final domino set to crush the pusher is devastatingly accurate.
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- Reposted by Proshant Chakraborty, PhDAt risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
- Reposted by Proshant Chakraborty, PhDDirty Dancing teaches that abortion rights are good and you should never date a guy who reads Ayn Rand, which is 90% of what you need to get through life
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- Wild how we got two films in two years where Nicholas Hoult plays a character who is tortured by a toxic, abusive undead count. #Nosferatu
- Merry Christmas, all! #Nosferatu
- Guess this typical Göteborg fog qualifies as White Christmas! 🎄🤍
- Really want @davechen.bsky.social to read my boom goes the dynamite review of Mufasa on the Filmcast.
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- Fellow STS folks in the Nordics, especially those working on waste/discard studies, do consider submitting an abstract to my panel: Waste, or the afterlives of repair? Temporality, materiality, politics, at the Danish STS conference. #STSSky #AnthroSky networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
- The quiet, tender, and devastatingly melancholic masculinity of Paul Mescal. All Of Us Strangers and Aftersun devastated me.
- I adored T-Blockers! Alice Maio Mackay has such a spunky, fresh take on horror genres. This is arguably the Gen Z equivalent of Evil Dead—a throwback to B-movies; but unmistakably of its time, especially in its ferocious critique of fascism! #GöteborgFilmFestival
- Absolutely loved “Mother, Couch” and “The Missile,” so it’s great to see the film and Oona Airola win the top awards at the 2024 Göteborg Film Festival! Honestly surprised that Hypnosen didn’t take the audience award, though. variety.com/2024/film/gl...
- The Missile lulls you in with its quirky Nordic comedy, but holds your attention while exploring horrors that have globe-spanning and deeply intimate consequences. One of the best films at the festival, and perhaps of the year! #GöteborgFilmFestival #NordicCompetition
- Got IMAX tickets for Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two. Burrowed a sandworm-sized hole in my pocket, but hey, that’s the only way to experience that sweet, sweet spice melange!
- When the thesis topic comes too close to home (or, in this case, work) #repair #maintenance #infrastructure
- Also, I finally watched When Evil Lurks last night, which was one of the most anticipated movies from 2023. And my god, this movie was grotesque, horrific, and truly evil. Loved it! #GoteborgFilmFestival
- Ernst de Geer’s Hypnosen (The Hypnosis) might be the standout from this year’s Göteborg Film Festival. Watching this in a sold out screen, with the cast and makers present, is a highlight of the year already. Loved the lead performances by Asta Kamma August and Herbert Nordrum!
- My review of Handling the Undead, which had its European premier at Göteborg tonight, and is in contention for the Draken Prize at the Nordic Competition. A deeply meditative film that's equally about horror, hope, and letting go of the (un)dead. #GöteborgFilmFestival
- Got tickets for a screening of Fire Walk With Me on Twin Peaks Day, so finally have the motivation to binge the show. And good god, this is so dorky! I’m loving it!
- Is True Detective S4 worth renewing my HBO subscription? (Would be good to finally finish Our Flag Means Death and Normal People)
- FINALLY there‘s a showing of The Boy and the Heron with English subtitles here in Göteborg!
- #PoorThings is a movie that defies categorisation. Sex. Socialism. And the posthuman politics of intergenerational traumas.
