A Kuntsman
Biographic Data
| ID | 11377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Kuntsman |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuntsman |
| SIGNATURE | KUNTSMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9970-9866 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gaza and the rise of synthetic militarism: On genocide and generative AI
Drawing on the case of the Israeli genocidal assault on Gaza, with attention to how Israelis and their supporters were employing synthetic images as political tools, this essay responds to current academic debates around visual generative AI in political contexts. The essay asks: How is the media landscape of war and political violence being reconfigured by generative AI? What is the political work of AI misinformation charges when they are direc…
For the Moment, I Am Not Scrolling: Positions, Episode 1
Andrew Culp and Cultural Studies Association’s New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Chair Claudia Skinner take a look into Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake’s new book Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button, published by University of Westminster Press (2022). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Tero Karppi
Democratic Situations
Sustainability) Research Group.She is a science and technology studies scholar and geographer interested in the relationships between science, democracy and the environment, and particularly
Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button
Life is increasingly governed and mediated through digital and smart technologies, platforms, big data and algorithms. However, the reasons, practices and impact of how the digital is used by different institutions are often deeply linked to social oppression and injustice. Similarly, the ability to resist these digital impositions is based on inequality and privilege. Challenging the ways in which we are increasingly dependent on the digital, th…
Smart Cities’ Environmental Dreams and Their Dirty Material Politics
This paper draws on a study that included two types of materials: firstly, visual and textual analysis of a selection of smart cities’ websites; and secondly, a review of published literature on smart cities and the environment. In both, a celebratory narrative of environmental efficiency prevails. Although ecology is usually not the primary focus of smart cities’ self-promotion, their websites tell a story of how smart cities would ultimately ma…
The paradox and continuum of digital disengagement: Denaturalising digital sociality and technological connectivity
This theoretical intervention puts forward a concept of ‘digital disengagement’ to discuss new socio-cultural, economic and political demarcations and implications surrounding the relationship between digital media, culture and society. At present, despite a proliferation of calls to reduce both the range of digital devices and communication platforms, and the time spent using them, and despite a growing body of academic work on disconnection or …
From digital solutionism to materialist accountability: The urgency of new interventions
How to reconcile the usefulness of digital tools and their adoption into environmental initiatives and sustainability projects, with the extensive environmental damages of the digitization itself? Despite a growing number of critical voices, pointing to environmental footprints of digital communication and the systemic blindness towards those in media analysis, the subject still remains on the margins of media studies. This article suggests reori…
Disengagement from Internet Usage among Russian IT Professionals
lt;p>This article presents the results of an empirical study of disengagement among Russian IT professionals. Is it a paradox that some IT-professionals criticize digital technologies? Or is it a consequence of their expert knowledge regarding the internet? From February through May 2018, the authors conducted a series of interviews with Russian IT professionals who criticize different aspects of the contemporary internet and consciously limit th…
Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture by Smadar Lavie
Smadar Lavie’s Wrapped in the Flag of Israel brings together several foundational principles that are detrimental to the lives of many poor, disenfranchised, marginalized women in the Middle East and beyond and yet are not explored systematically: gender and race are intertwined deeply and powerfully and cannot be understood separately; poverty destroys bodies, minds, and spirits, its effects long-lasting and often deadly; the state can be ruthle…
Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age
Contents and Abstracts1When Instagram Went to War: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age chapter abstractThis chapter provides the historical and theoretical parameters of the book, defining the term and outlining the ways it has changed during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. It sketches the relationship between the changing Israeli political playfield of these years and the growth of the national culture in social networ…
Queer Necropolitics
Obligation, Social Projects and Queer Politics: Elizabeth Povinelli in Conversation With Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman and Silvia Posocco
Murderous Inclusions
Israelis And Iranians, Get a Room!”
Other| November 01 2012 “Israelis And Iranians, Get a Room!”: Love, Hate, and Transnational Politics from the “Israel Loves Iran” and “Iran Loves Israel” Facebook Campaigns Adi Kuntsman; Adi Kuntsman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sanaz Raji Sanaz Raji Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 143–154. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.3.143…
Coming of age in 'Second Life': "An anthropologist explores the virtually human," by Tom Boellstorff
Review of Tom Boellstorff. Coming of age in "Second Life": An anthropologist explores the virtually human. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2008. Hardcover, $39.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-691-13528-1
Webs of hate in diasporic cyberspaces: The Gaza War in the Russian-language blogosphere
This article looks at ways in which a military conflict can produce circuits of hatred in online social spaces. Ethnographically, the article is based on the analysis of selected discussions of Israeli warfare in Gaza in 2008 and 2009 as they took place in the Russian-language networked blogosphere. Bringing together Sara Ahmed’s notion of affective economies, Avtar Brah’s concept of ‘diaspora space’, Judith Butler’s idea of ‘frames of war’ and E…
With a Shade of Disgust: Affective Politics of Sexuality and Class in Memoirs of the Stalinist Gulag
This article addresses a topic seldom discussed in gulag studies: same-sex relations in the camps. In particular, it deals with affective politics of sexuality and class in gulag memoirs and the role of disgust in the formation of sexual and class boundaries. It approaches disgust as existing between the individual and the social, the subjective and the historical, the internal and the external, and traces the ways the gulag memoirs constitute th…
The Currency of Victimhood in Uncanny Homes: Queer Immigrants' Claims for Home and Belonging Through Anti-Homophobic Organising
This paper is based on an ethnographic study of Russian-speaking queer immigrants in Israel and, in particular, on their organising against homophobia. The paper follows the queer immigrants’ claims that the homophobic attacks they experience are similar to anti-Semitism and the persecution of Jews by the Nazis. Engaging with Freud's notion of the double as uncanny, I trace the relations of doubleness and substitution between two figures: the hum…
The Soldier and the Terrorist: Sexy Nationalism, Queer Violence
An Israeli soldier, praised for killing terrorists in their homes, and adored as a gay prince charming; a Palestinian gay man called either a lying terrorist or a cute Arab boy with an almond ass; an Abu-Ghraib prisoner, whose naked body, pornographically mediated and distributed by the media generates a homosexual rape fantasy of all Arabs in-the-name-of-Israeli-security. These images were collected during my ethnography of a Russian-Israeli GLB…
Written In Blood: Contested borders and the politics of passing in Israel/Palestine and in cyberspace
This paper brings together three distinct bodies of scholarship: feminist and critical race reading of cybercultures and on-line identities; feminist analysis of gender and racial passing, and scholarship on racism and nationalism as gendered and sexualised. The paper is part of a larger project on sexuality, immigration and nationalism in Israel/Palestine and in cyberspace and is based on cyberethnography of on-line bulletin board of Russian-spe…
Between Gulags and Pride Parades
Informed by feminist and queer scholarship debates on sexuality, migration, and the nation, this article examines the role of violence-in particular, homophobic hate speech-in negotiating immigrant belonging through sexuality. The article is based on my ethnographic study of Russian-speaking queers who arrived in Israel from the former Soviet Union. My discussion starts from one ethnographic moment-a homophobic poem published in 2002 in a leading…
Double homecoming: Sexuality, ethnicity, and place in immigration stories of russian lesbians in israel
Cyberethnography as home-work
Cyberspace invites the rethinking of the concepts culture and location. But it also demands a re-examination of the idea of 'the field' in virtual-or what is also called cyber-ethnography. This article focuses on one way of locating the field in cyberspace by exploring the concept of home as it is conceptualized by the ethnographer and imagined and negotiated by those with whom she works. The article suggests a critical way of approaching belongi…
Murderous Inclusions
The paradox and continuum of digital disengagement: Denaturalising digital sociality and technological connectivity
This theoretical intervention puts forward a concept of ‘digital disengagement’ to discuss new socio-cultural, economic and political demarcations and implications surrounding the relationship between digital media, culture and society. At present, despite a proliferation of calls to reduce both the range of digital devices and communication platforms, and the time spent using them, and despite a growing body of academic work on disconnection or …
Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button
Life is increasingly governed and mediated through digital and smart technologies, platforms, big data and algorithms. However, the reasons, practices and impact of how the digital is used by different institutions are often deeply linked to social oppression and injustice. Similarly, the ability to resist these digital impositions is based on inequality and privilege. Challenging the ways in which we are increasingly dependent on the digital, th…
Double homecoming: Sexuality, ethnicity, and place in immigration stories of russian lesbians in israel
With a Shade of Disgust: Affective Politics of Sexuality and Class in Memoirs of the Stalinist Gulag
This article addresses a topic seldom discussed in gulag studies: same-sex relations in the camps. In particular, it deals with affective politics of sexuality and class in gulag memoirs and the role of disgust in the formation of sexual and class boundaries. It approaches disgust as existing between the individual and the social, the subjective and the historical, the internal and the external, and traces the ways the gulag memoirs constitute th…
Between Gulags and Pride Parades
Informed by feminist and queer scholarship debates on sexuality, migration, and the nation, this article examines the role of violence-in particular, homophobic hate speech-in negotiating immigrant belonging through sexuality. The article is based on my ethnographic study of Russian-speaking queers who arrived in Israel from the former Soviet Union. My discussion starts from one ethnographic moment-a homophobic poem published in 2002 in a leading…
Webs of hate in diasporic cyberspaces: The Gaza War in the Russian-language blogosphere
This article looks at ways in which a military conflict can produce circuits of hatred in online social spaces. Ethnographically, the article is based on the analysis of selected discussions of Israeli warfare in Gaza in 2008 and 2009 as they took place in the Russian-language networked blogosphere. Bringing together Sara Ahmed’s notion of affective economies, Avtar Brah’s concept of ‘diaspora space’, Judith Butler’s idea of ‘frames of war’ and E…
Obligation, Social Projects and Queer Politics: Elizabeth Povinelli in Conversation With Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman and Silvia Posocco
The Currency of Victimhood in Uncanny Homes: Queer Immigrants' Claims for Home and Belonging Through Anti-Homophobic Organising
This paper is based on an ethnographic study of Russian-speaking queer immigrants in Israel and, in particular, on their organising against homophobia. The paper follows the queer immigrants’ claims that the homophobic attacks they experience are similar to anti-Semitism and the persecution of Jews by the Nazis. Engaging with Freud's notion of the double as uncanny, I trace the relations of doubleness and substitution between two figures: the hum…
Democratic Situations
Sustainability) Research Group.She is a science and technology studies scholar and geographer interested in the relationships between science, democracy and the environment, and particularly
Cyberethnography as home-work
Cyberspace invites the rethinking of the concepts culture and location. But it also demands a re-examination of the idea of 'the field' in virtual-or what is also called cyber-ethnography. This article focuses on one way of locating the field in cyberspace by exploring the concept of home as it is conceptualized by the ethnographer and imagined and negotiated by those with whom she works. The article suggests a critical way of approaching belongi…
From digital solutionism to materialist accountability: The urgency of new interventions
How to reconcile the usefulness of digital tools and their adoption into environmental initiatives and sustainability projects, with the extensive environmental damages of the digitization itself? Despite a growing number of critical voices, pointing to environmental footprints of digital communication and the systemic blindness towards those in media analysis, the subject still remains on the margins of media studies. This article suggests reori…
Israelis And Iranians, Get a Room!”
Other| November 01 2012 “Israelis And Iranians, Get a Room!”: Love, Hate, and Transnational Politics from the “Israel Loves Iran” and “Iran Loves Israel” Facebook Campaigns Adi Kuntsman; Adi Kuntsman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sanaz Raji Sanaz Raji Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 143–154. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.3.143…
Cyberethnography as home-work
Cyberspace invites the rethinking of the concepts culture and location. But it also demands a re-examination of the idea of 'the field' in virtual-or what is also called cyber-ethnography. This article focuses on one way of locating the field in cyberspace by exploring the concept of home as it is conceptualized by the ethnographer and imagined and negotiated by those with whom she works. The article suggests a critical way of approaching belongi…
Double homecoming: Sexuality, ethnicity, and place in immigration stories of russian lesbians in israel
The Soldier and the Terrorist: Sexy Nationalism, Queer Violence
An Israeli soldier, praised for killing terrorists in their homes, and adored as a gay prince charming; a Palestinian gay man called either a lying terrorist or a cute Arab boy with an almond ass; an Abu-Ghraib prisoner, whose naked body, pornographically mediated and distributed by the media generates a homosexual rape fantasy of all Arabs in-the-name-of-Israeli-security. These images were collected during my ethnography of a Russian-Israeli GLB…
Written In Blood: Contested borders and the politics of passing in Israel/Palestine and in cyberspace
This paper brings together three distinct bodies of scholarship: feminist and critical race reading of cybercultures and on-line identities; feminist analysis of gender and racial passing, and scholarship on racism and nationalism as gendered and sexualised. The paper is part of a larger project on sexuality, immigration and nationalism in Israel/Palestine and in cyberspace and is based on cyberethnography of on-line bulletin board of Russian-spe…
Between Gulags and Pride Parades
Informed by feminist and queer scholarship debates on sexuality, migration, and the nation, this article examines the role of violence-in particular, homophobic hate speech-in negotiating immigrant belonging through sexuality. The article is based on my ethnographic study of Russian-speaking queers who arrived in Israel from the former Soviet Union. My discussion starts from one ethnographic moment-a homophobic poem published in 2002 in a leading…
With a Shade of Disgust: Affective Politics of Sexuality and Class in Memoirs of the Stalinist Gulag
This article addresses a topic seldom discussed in gulag studies: same-sex relations in the camps. In particular, it deals with affective politics of sexuality and class in gulag memoirs and the role of disgust in the formation of sexual and class boundaries. It approaches disgust as existing between the individual and the social, the subjective and the historical, the internal and the external, and traces the ways the gulag memoirs constitute th…
The Currency of Victimhood in Uncanny Homes: Queer Immigrants' Claims for Home and Belonging Through Anti-Homophobic Organising
This paper is based on an ethnographic study of Russian-speaking queer immigrants in Israel and, in particular, on their organising against homophobia. The paper follows the queer immigrants’ claims that the homophobic attacks they experience are similar to anti-Semitism and the persecution of Jews by the Nazis. Engaging with Freud's notion of the double as uncanny, I trace the relations of doubleness and substitution between two figures: the hum…
Coming of age in 'Second Life': "An anthropologist explores the virtually human," by Tom Boellstorff
Review of Tom Boellstorff. Coming of age in "Second Life": An anthropologist explores the virtually human. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2008. Hardcover, $39.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-691-13528-1
Webs of hate in diasporic cyberspaces: The Gaza War in the Russian-language blogosphere
This article looks at ways in which a military conflict can produce circuits of hatred in online social spaces. Ethnographically, the article is based on the analysis of selected discussions of Israeli warfare in Gaza in 2008 and 2009 as they took place in the Russian-language networked blogosphere. Bringing together Sara Ahmed’s notion of affective economies, Avtar Brah’s concept of ‘diaspora space’, Judith Butler’s idea of ‘frames of war’ and E…
Israelis And Iranians, Get a Room!”
Other| November 01 2012 “Israelis And Iranians, Get a Room!”: Love, Hate, and Transnational Politics from the “Israel Loves Iran” and “Iran Loves Israel” Facebook Campaigns Adi Kuntsman; Adi Kuntsman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sanaz Raji Sanaz Raji Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 143–154. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.3.143…
Obligation, Social Projects and Queer Politics: Elizabeth Povinelli in Conversation With Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman and Silvia Posocco
Murderous Inclusions
Queer Necropolitics
Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age
Contents and Abstracts1When Instagram Went to War: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age chapter abstractThis chapter provides the historical and theoretical parameters of the book, defining the term and outlining the ways it has changed during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. It sketches the relationship between the changing Israeli political playfield of these years and the growth of the national culture in social networ…
Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture by Smadar Lavie
Smadar Lavie’s Wrapped in the Flag of Israel brings together several foundational principles that are detrimental to the lives of many poor, disenfranchised, marginalized women in the Middle East and beyond and yet are not explored systematically: gender and race are intertwined deeply and powerfully and cannot be understood separately; poverty destroys bodies, minds, and spirits, its effects long-lasting and often deadly; the state can be ruthle…
Disengagement from Internet Usage among Russian IT Professionals
lt;p>This article presents the results of an empirical study of disengagement among Russian IT professionals. Is it a paradox that some IT-professionals criticize digital technologies? Or is it a consequence of their expert knowledge regarding the internet? From February through May 2018, the authors conducted a series of interviews with Russian IT professionals who criticize different aspects of the contemporary internet and consciously limit th…
The paradox and continuum of digital disengagement: Denaturalising digital sociality and technological connectivity
This theoretical intervention puts forward a concept of ‘digital disengagement’ to discuss new socio-cultural, economic and political demarcations and implications surrounding the relationship between digital media, culture and society. At present, despite a proliferation of calls to reduce both the range of digital devices and communication platforms, and the time spent using them, and despite a growing body of academic work on disconnection or …
From digital solutionism to materialist accountability: The urgency of new interventions
How to reconcile the usefulness of digital tools and their adoption into environmental initiatives and sustainability projects, with the extensive environmental damages of the digitization itself? Despite a growing number of critical voices, pointing to environmental footprints of digital communication and the systemic blindness towards those in media analysis, the subject still remains on the margins of media studies. This article suggests reori…
Smart Cities’ Environmental Dreams and Their Dirty Material Politics
This paper draws on a study that included two types of materials: firstly, visual and textual analysis of a selection of smart cities’ websites; and secondly, a review of published literature on smart cities and the environment. In both, a celebratory narrative of environmental efficiency prevails. Although ecology is usually not the primary focus of smart cities’ self-promotion, their websites tell a story of how smart cities would ultimately ma…
Democratic Situations
Sustainability) Research Group.She is a science and technology studies scholar and geographer interested in the relationships between science, democracy and the environment, and particularly
Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button
Life is increasingly governed and mediated through digital and smart technologies, platforms, big data and algorithms. However, the reasons, practices and impact of how the digital is used by different institutions are often deeply linked to social oppression and injustice. Similarly, the ability to resist these digital impositions is based on inequality and privilege. Challenging the ways in which we are increasingly dependent on the digital, th…
For the Moment, I Am Not Scrolling: Positions, Episode 1
Andrew Culp and Cultural Studies Association’s New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Chair Claudia Skinner take a look into Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake’s new book Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button, published by University of Westminster Press (2022). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Tero Karppi
Gaza and the rise of synthetic militarism: On genocide and generative AI
Drawing on the case of the Israeli genocidal assault on Gaza, with attention to how Israelis and their supporters were employing synthetic images as political tools, this essay responds to current academic debates around visual generative AI in political contexts. The essay asks: How is the media landscape of war and political violence being reconfigured by generative AI? What is the political work of AI misinformation charges when they are direc…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Queer (7 works)