Over at Struggles Forever, Jeremy Trombley has an interesting post up on “the ontological turn” in anthropology or ethnography.  I’ve been meaning to have a discussion with him about this as I think it’s an issue many of us are struggling with.  For example, the core project of The Democracy of Objects— a project which I think many have missed –is to somehow reconcile some version of social constructivism with a realist ontology capable of making room for ecology (which requires realist and materialist positions as there’s a fact of the matter where global warming is concerned) as well as the role played by objective agencies in social assemblages such as technologies, infrastructure, features of geography, local climates, the growth cycles of plants and animals, waste, etc.  Maybe we can try to organize some cross-blog event to discuss these issues.  I certainly think they’re close to the…