Mail call: two books and one (free!) e-book. One of the three seems particularly on point this week for some reason….and for once it’s not the book on AI.

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The Mormon Archive’s First Ten Thousand Years: Infrastructure, Materiality, Ontology, and Resurrection in Religious Transhumanism | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core The Mormon Archive’s First Ten Thousand Years: Infrastructure, Materiality, Ontology, and Resurrection in Religious Transhumanism

Here's an (open source) essay on the archive, ontology, and transhumanism in Mormonism that just came out in CSSH.

Though I don't stress it here, it's the first of a two-parter, with the second part focusing on kinship and AI, that's hopefully going to come out in a special issue in the future.

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Burning Diagrams in Anthropology: An Inverse Museum – punctum books

Hey, there, folks!

I'm looking for a venue to review this book - what's nice is that I have an e-copy. I'm way behind in owed book reviews...but something about the title calls to me for some mysterious reason.....

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