27 October 2026
Estrangement Machines
Computational methods may facilitate a form of estrangement valuable to qualitative and, in particular, ethnographic inquiry: they can help make the familiar strange. Machines may be most useful precisely when they fail to reproduce our categories; they may be less informative when they appear simply to confirm them. Despite their prima facie opposite inclinations, the two approaches can therefore produce considerable synergies. Continue reading >>
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