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Here you can read the latest news and views from our Fellows and associates. Many articles are also reprinted in the ISRF Bulletin, the Foundation’s in-house periodical.

The Blog and Bulletin are edited by Baindu Kallon.

Latest blog post

AI and the Future of Human Learning

by Christopher Newfield

ISRF's research group, "Reframing AI" is interested in examining the relation between machine and human learning. In this month's Director's Note, Christopher Newfield asks how to reconcile the use of each to enhance rather than threaten human intelligence.
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Latest blog post

Lives of Rubble

by Beatriz Aragón

Housing policies designed to "integrate" Madrid's Roma communities actually push them to the margins of society. Isolated in informal settlements, they face deteriorating living conditions from evictions to lack of electricity. In this Bulletin contribution, Beatriz Aragón unpacks how such infrastructural violence, shaped by antigypsism, traps Roma communities in a cycle of chronic crisis.
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Latest publication

Bulletin #32: Crisis and Conjuncture: Climate, Borders, Politics

Based on papers presented at the ISRF’s 2024 annual conference, contributions aim to recalibrate existing categories of analysis in the face of escalating political, humanitarian, and environmental crises.
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