Jon Bialecki

Author of _Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, & Worlds without End_, out in Spring 2022 with Fordham University Press.

[Jon Bialecki @jonbialecki]

Excited/terrified to see that Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds Without End has a launch date of March 1st. Get it on Amazon, or at a real bookstore and ever so slightly retard Bezo's hostile takeover of the solar system. https://t.co/lgbcjQ2R5O

[Jon Bialecki @jonbialecki]

@CTMathewes It really is the “a novel of ideas” that is the load- bearing part here…

[CSSH @CSSHJournal]

In our new Under the Rubic feature, "After Life," @jonbialecki and Jeanne Kormina discuss Mormon transhumanism, the remains of Tsar Nicholas II, and the multiple temporalities of death. Don't sleep on it!

https://t.co/CmLJ2JqlMP

[CSSH @CSSHJournal]

Also new on FirstView: @jonbialecki's "The #Mormon Archive’s First Ten Thousand Years: Infrastructure, Materiality, Ontology, and Resurrection in Religious #Transhumanism."

https://t.co/UvaOAUi6Yf

[Jon Bialecki @jonbialecki]

There is an incredible amount of excellent work being done in Brazil, and I'm pleased that my co-editors and I had a small role in making sure that it can be a part of the wider anthropological conversation.

[Jon Bialecki @jonbialecki]

MAIL CALL: happy to get a copy of the latest book from the book series I edit with James Bielo, Naomi Haynes Zhu, and Hillary Kaell. #anthropology #ethnography

[Jon Bialecki @jonbialecki]

I'm particularly proud to be associated with this title because this is a book that, absent our book series and the Balzan project (the organization that paid for translating this manuscript), might not have been made available to English language scholars.

[Jon Bialecki @jonbialecki]

@LincolnCannon *I raise my hand*

[BerghahnAnthropology @BerghahnAnthro]

"Sexbots Playing the Imitation Game" by Jon Bialecki is available to read now #OpenAccess from the latest issue of Social Analysis: https://t.co/xeCL7OdtDt @jonbialecki

[Luke Bretherton @WestLondonMan]

Terrific reflection - in an anthropological key - on revival and the Asbury revival in particular by @jonbialecki Makes fascinating connections to political currents at work in Evangelicalism https://t.co/f4uCn1WAZp

[basit kareem iqbal @biqbal]

nice forum on andreas bandak's _exemplary life: modelling sainthood in christian syria_ https://t.co/i45jFM1DKM

[Religious Studies @BloomsburyRS]

🚨 New paperback alert!

Edited by @Eric_Hoenes, @roscoe_loustau, and Kristin Norget, Mediating Catholicism examines how Catholics consume, produce, and engage with media in their religious lives.

Order here: https://t.co/4iLBrL6a2t

[Jon Bialecki @jonbialecki]

In the latest edition of Suomen Antropologi, Ilana Gershon with a thought-provoking linguistic #anthropology analysis of ChatGPT & other LLMS as "genre machines" #AI #ethnography https://t.co/AiiOQ5b29o

[Matthew Bowman @mbbowman]

I wrote a thing about the various ways Mormons have interpreted UFOs.

https://t.co/IjWGf0u7nd

[Jon Bialecki @jonbialecki]

The review is part of a larger forum in Wayfarer magazine on AI and features other really considered and insightful essays by, among others, @cayblood and @bjpeters. https://t.co/MXIipRoqSR

[Jon Bialecki @jonbialecki]

A really thoughtful and generous review of my book _Machines for Making Gods_, with the reviewer writing from a faithful Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints standpoint. https://t.co/m7IMhicVMl

[Matthew Bowman @mbbowman]

If you're unsure if you want to learn more about alien abduction and its relationship with politics, religion and race in the 1960s, Yale's made a preview for my book. Come for the crop circles, stay for the Unitarians.

https://t.co/E6B1gFer2R

Buy it:
https://t.co/GUeo4Ij2o2

[Candace Lukasik @lukasik_c]

Very happy to see that my article: "Beyond Church and State: Contentions of Minority Citizenship in Egypt" has been published: https://t.co/GeNVMqIKPE. Please DM me for a copy. #Copts #Egypt #citizenship #sectarianism

[Ashley Lebner @AshleyLebner]

Thank you, readers! 🙏 Wow, after 4.5 years my article in Anthropological Theory is still one of the most read in the journal during the last 6 months. Nearing 3000 views..."No Such Thing as 'a' Concept"...with free access. Thank you again 🌻🧉🥂https://t.co/mmUtUiBn3p

[Jon Bialecki @jonbialecki]

A characteristically brilliant article from Courtney Handman on the links between language, humanity, and deception - with a wonderfully audacious scope running from late 19th century Papua New Guinea to 21st century artificial intelligence: https://t.co/4KnaAjneyW

[Jon Bialecki @jonbialecki]

@MaterializingB Excellent!