Alberto Corsín Jiménez is Reader in the Department of Social Anthropology at Spain’s National Research Council in Madrid. His most recent books include Free Culture and the City: Hackers, Commoners, and Neighbors in Madrid, 1997–2017 (2023) and Historia Ilustrada del Confinamiento (2025). He is co-editor of Cultural Anthropology (2022–2026) and has an interest in cities and traps.
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Intransitive
As a practice, as a model, and as a civilizational project, “building” always indexes a transition: the craft and praxis of volumetric and spatial growth; the e... More
Drafts
In this brief essay I wish to introduce the draft as a keyword for thinking about the designs of ethnography today, and specifically about the task of produci... More
Why An Open-Access Publishing Cooperative Can Work: A Proposal for the AAA’s Journal Portfolio
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has recently announced that it will soon issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) to invite potential publishers to bi... More
Open Access: A Collective Ecology for AAA Publishing in the Digital Age
Just over a year ago Cultural Anthropology (CA) went open access. It has been an exhilarating experience, which has seen the journal engage new publics and conv... More