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Assembling Ethics in an Ecology of Ignorance (Paul Rabinow)

October 3, 2017by dmf 4 Comments

here be a classic pdf up for grabs: Assembling Ethics in an Ecology of Ignorance, Paul Rabinow Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), Director […]

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The Question of Naturalistic Ethics: Sam Harris on Science and Morality

November 15, 2015by ||| 6 Comments

Below Sam Harris outlines and then discusses with Richard Dawkins his argument against Hume’s erroneous (IMO) notion that we cannot derive an ‘ought’ from an ‘is’ – what philosopher’s call the “naturalistic […]

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Schizoanalysis as Anthro-Ecology

May 31, 2015by edmundberger 25 Comments

WILD ECOLOGIES – Featured Post #3: Edmund Berger with an in-depth analysis of Guattari’s ‘ecosophy’ and possible points of connection, overlap and divergence from anarchist thought.   How does one begin to […]

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Vanishing World, Climate Refugees – Marianne Hougen-Moraga

September 15, 2014by dmf 1 Comment

See Also: http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/11/vanishing-world-climate-refugees/ heartbreaking

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Roden on the Posthuman & the Transhuman

August 7, 2014by ||| 3 Comments

An excellent and compact outline of some differences between posthumanism and transhumanism from David Roden here: Posthumanists may, but need not, claim that humans are becoming more intertwined with technology. They […]

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The Vacuousness of “Society” – Marilyn Strathern

March 6, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“Taking care of a concept: anthropological reflections on the assisted society: The lecture questions both what might be taken for granted in an appeal to society and what it then […]

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Worlding with the Body

February 24, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

Worlding with the Body link above to anthropod-cast on a panel of speakers as outlined @ http://mohacska.org/2013/10/03/worlding-with-the-body/ At the November 2013 American Anthropological Association meeting in Chicago the session entitled “Worlding […]

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Latour’s ‘What Is the Recommended Dose of Ontological Pluralism for a Safe Anthropological Diplomacy?’

January 28, 2014by dmf 1 Comment

In light of the recent ‘realism v. pluralism’ debates… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U1FbAMEpzQ http://anthem-group.net/2014/01/28/2013-gad-distinguished-lecture-bruno-latour/

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Anthropology, Architecture, Archaeology, Art

June 22, 2013by ||| 6 Comments

In the video below preeminent anthropologist and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen Tim Ingold tries to bring the “4 A’s” [anthropology, architecture, archaeology, and art] together, […]

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Heidegger and the Ecology of Knowing

June 11, 2013by ||| 3 Comments

Levi Bryant has a interesting post up on Heidegger (here), wherein he moves from a damn fine summary of ‘equipmentality’ to a discussion of cognitive blindness (although without reference to […]

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Bryant, Geertz, Haraway, Heidegger, Laruelle

Anthony Stavrianakis on Collaboration and Ontology

June 6, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

The following is a conversation between Gaymon Bennett and anthropologist Anthony Stavrianakis about the Challenge of Collaboration. The conversation took place in a noisy kitchen at Berkeley University Campus. Since […]

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Interview with Paul Rabinow

June 4, 2013by ||| Leave a comment

“I have said in some of the earlier books that anthropology to me is anthropos + logos or logoi, so if you are interested in anthropos which in Greek is […]

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Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger, Latour, Marx, Rabinow

Species-Being and Media Machines

May 31, 2013by ||| Leave a comment

AUDIO:  Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines/Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology “The humans are dead.” Whether or not you recognize the epigram from Flight of the Conchords (and […]

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Deleuze’s Politics: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, and Nomadology

May 25, 2013by dmf 1 Comment

Daniel W Smith discussed Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s works Anti-Oedipus & A Thousand Plateaus at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2009. Smith, a professor of philosophy at Purdue University, is a […]

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