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Michiel Baas

Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Netherlands

Michiel Baas holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam (2009). In his latest research project he is working towards an anthropological approach to AI for which he collaborates with artists, creative professionals and data scientists who work with the technology in India. Among others this has resulted in a large exhibition of AI-art installations in the city of Bangalore (2024) and various publications, among others in the European Journal of Cultural Studies and Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. He has also published extensively on question of new middle-class formation in Indian megacities. His most recent book is Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility and the New Middle Class (2020). In other publications he has engaged with questions of migration and transnationalism; gender, sexuality and masculinity; fitness and bodybuilding (in India); and India’s changing urban landscape.

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