Michel Foucault’s attitude towards women
One could write numerous things about masculine domination in French philosophy, and many have done so. Right now, for instance, I’m engrossed in Michèle Le Doeuff’s programmatic 1977 essa…
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Web Roundup: Moral enhancement by Jane Roberts
This month’s web round up focuses on notions of treatment as enhancement…or vice versa? I’ve recently come off a stretch of spending quite a lot of time reading…
Why is Anthropology so Critical?
Portrait of Giambattista Vico by Francesco Solimena By Matthias Teeuwen I want to thank Ton Salman for his insightful take on the question…
The Self-Construction of Black Women Physicists
image: slide with text: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, University of Washington DECOLONIZING SCIENCE BY RECONSTRUCTING OBSERVERS, with embedded image of racist phenotype comparisons of “Irish Iberian,” “An…
Time and the Other Primates
books and arts Tomasello, Michael. 2014. A Natural History of Human Thinking. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 178 pages. 18th-Century Questions, 21st-Century Problems Influential c…
Book Forum––Science, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary by Todd Meyers
Science, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary is many things — a carefully curated selection of classic texts ranging from Immanuel Kant’s “An Answer to the…
Another Answer to the Question “What is Anthropology?”
Photo by David Barnas on Flickr By Matthias Teeuwen As a student of cultural anthropology you are invariably confronted with the question: what is anthropology? It can briefly…
Phenomenology of the Virtual and the Real
A long over-due crosspost from gnovis! Way back in 2011 I embarked on a project exploring the colloquial distinction between “the Internet” and “the real” — as in,…
A Short Reflection on the Evidentiality of #Evidence
Evidence sometimes suffers from a peculiar problem. It is not always evident. I call this the problem of the evidentiality of evidence. By definition, evidence is that which…
Tarek Elhaik’s The Incurable Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts by Christopher Fraga
The Incurable-Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts by Tarek Elhaik Edinburgh University Press, 2016, 198 pages Tarek Elhaik’s first book—an ethnographic examination of multi-media a…
Derrida on complacency and vulgarity
In Benoît Peeters’ biography of Jacques Derrida, there is an intriguing interview with Derrida that was never published. Peeters writes: In 1992, Jacques Derrida gave Osvaldo Muñoz an…
Philosophical lab infrastructure
The short version of this post: Philosophers have practically no lab infrastructure. The long version: Coming back to my research about philosophy departments in France, I was recently reading an…
Magic Words: A Numbered List by Vincent Duclos
Boundary Biǎo 表 Interiorization (Inclusion) The Fold Emptiness Pathway Tōng 通 Media/Medium Resonance Excess Immunity/Community 1. Boundary Boundary is such a common-sense concept that it hardly ne…
Conference Report: ‘Comment penser l’anthropocène?’ at Collège de France, Paris by Yannick van den Berg
November 5 & 6, 2015 – Conference Program and Videos The two-day conference ‘Comment penser l’anthropocène?’ (‘How to think the Anthropocene?’) at the Collège de France in Paris…
Critical thinking: Who’s up for it?
Petition diversifying Philosophy By Georgette Veerhuis A month ago on Thursday 21 January 2016 I attended the symposium Diversify Philosophy at the VU. It sounded mysterious. Why does…
Book Forum—Anand Pandian’s “Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation” by Todd Meyers
Anand Pandian’s Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation is a fascinating and truly inspired inquiry into questions of experience and the media through which experience is rendered…
Of Critique, philosophy and anthropology – An interview with Ann Stoler
The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) is a program run by The New School for Social Research for the second time this year. It brings together graduate…
Image as Method: Conversations on Anthropology through the Image by Andrés Romero
What follows is a series of conversations conducted after the recent Image as Method symposium, which took place on May 4th and 5th, 2015, at Columbia University’s Heyman…
An anthropology beyond nature and culture? Tim Ingold and Gisli Palsson’s edited volume, Biosocial Becomings. by Perig Pitrou
Biosocial Becomings: Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology Cambridge University Press, 2013, 288 pages. This essay originally appeared in Portuguese in the journal Mana. Translation provide…
On real problems
I came across a confrontational moment in one of my interview transcripts. We had been talking about philosophers’ metanarratives about “truth.” But my interlocutor found my question…
Tristes Tropiques: Revisited
When I first encountered Lévi-Strauss in graduate school, I thought the title of his monumental work sounded strange. At that time, I spoke absolutely no Portuguese but…
Universality of Truth
Now this is an article that is going to upset a lot of people but at the same time it will cause a lot of people to reflect…
19. Freedoms and liberties in anthropological perspective
This is nineteenth post in the Freedom technologists series. Republished from St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. The Centre is pleased to announce a forthcoming conference on Liberties…
The Facebook Experiment: Cow-Sociology, Redux
Once having arrived at a set (or sets) of defensible moral positions, social psychologists should better be able to educate those outside the field concerning appropriate ethical criteria…