Author: anthrometronom

The Affective Life of a Controversial Paper and the Formalization of (Ethnographic) Research Ethics Text by Franz Templin (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) Art by Moxi Ochsenbauer This essay discusse…

Socio-Psychological Effects of Choral Singing in the Process of Resocialisation Text by Tim Conitz (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Pablo Dohms Music is an integral part of social…

A Lifelong Struggle – Caught Between Internalized Homophobia, Shame, and Mental Health Text by Maximilian-Leonard Leipold (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Ziggy Zhu Maximilian-Leonard Leipold&a…

On Homemaking, Materiality and Exile Text by Rashof Salih (Freie Universität Berlin) Photo by Rashof Salih This essay aims to take a closer look at objects as such…

Text by Andrea Mächler Bedoya (Freie Universität Berlin) Take a look at the picture in the puzzle’s box: this is what you are aiming for. Photo by sefa yamak,…

Eine kritisch-feministische Ethnografie neoliberaler Strukturen an Berliner Universitäten Text von Maja Heining und Nadja Kasolowsky (Freie Universität Berlin) Foto: Martin Fischer, CC BY-NC 2.0 D…

Text by Sara Martinez Belendez (Freie Universität Berlin) Photo by James Vaughan, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 This essay explores the affective and psychological dimensions of a childhood encounter with…

Text by Anile Tmava (University of Leipzig) Art by Pablo Dohms Fragmented, striving but never saturated, surmounted by intensity and uncertainty – the neoliberal subject is at the…

Text by Svenja J. Holzhausen (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Lena Rorschach This essay centers on the question of whether permaculture school gardens can be considered decolonial projects,…

Drugs as Multilayered Stabilizing Agents? Text by Saskia Sturm (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Pablo Dohms The following essay deals with an urgent aspect of the relation between…

Anthropology versus Psychoanalysis? Text by Lea Hensch (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Pablo Dohms The following essay addresses the question of why the century-old debate on the universality…

An Essay on the Question of its Existence, and its Suggestibility Text by Michl-Felix Bierl (Freie Universität Berlin) Image by Lena Rorschach The following essay is a reflection…

How is Violence Remembered? Between Remembering and Forgetting Text by Lea Hensch (Freie Universität Berlin) Image by Leela Ryan The following essay addresses the ontological dimension of memory…

David Healy’s Pharmageddon Adapted to the Risperdal Case Text by Maria-Antonie Ellendorff (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Pablo Dohms The American healthcare company Johnson & Johnson (J&a…

On Proximity and Distance of Psychiatry and Anthropology Text by Saskia Sturm (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Lena Rorschach Most recently I read Marge Piercy’s Woman on the…

Text by Maria Clara Schaeffer (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Pablo Dohms “Are we a more stable and productive society as a consequence of all the antidepressants we…

Text by Marie Paquignon (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Lena Rorschach Introduction “To describe and to voice violence is a step towards peace” (Dussy 2021, 29, translated from…

Re-Visioning Psychiatry and What an Anthropological Perspective Could Contribute Text by Michl-Felix Bierl (Freie Universität Berlin) Image by Pablo Dohms Within psychiatry, and within popular p…

Text by Luise Erbentraut (Freie Universität Berlin) Image by Pablo Dohms During the past semesters under pandemic conditions, I had the feeling of losing control—or more precisely, being…

Text by Maria Clara Schaeffer (Freie Universität Berlin) Image by Pablo Dohms In this essay, I reconstruct findings regarding the constructions of selves and how they relate to…