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Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 14 October 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7361-2
...Concept Work<subtitle>Fragilities and Filiations</subtitle> This chapter asks how colonial histories matter today and offers an introduction to the conceptual labor that may be needed to capture the uneven, recursive qualities of the visions and practices that imperial formations have...
Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 14 October 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373612-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7361-2
.... Attention to the politics of occlusion, colonial temporalities, and a “recursive analytics” is introduced. Colonial presence Concept work History Politics of occlusion Colonial temporalities Recursive history ...
Published: 19 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059141-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5914-1
... This chapter introduces the handbook both as a design guide and as a way to integrate research’s personal and collective possibilities. It defines “project design” as the process of assembling project concepts and intentions within a congruent framework of inquiry. This approach allows...
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By Orin Starn
Published: 09 March 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7565-4
... archives collaboration concept work para-sites studios ...
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By Ann Laura Stoler
Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 14 October 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7361-2
... Colonial presence Concept work History Politics of occlusion Colonial temporalities Recursive history ...
Published: 19 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059141-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5914-1
... This module lays the groundwork for multidimensional concept work by providing step-by-step guidance for writing a research imaginary. A research imaginary is a freely written narrative about a project’s contexts, aims, and potentials. The goal of this module is to bring forth a manageable group...
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375654-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7565-4
... This chapter argues that the most lively contemporary legacy of the 1980s Writing Culture critiques now lie outside or beyond conventional texts, in the forms that are integral to fieldwork itself. Fieldwork today requires a kind of collaborative concept work that stimulates studios, archiving...
Published: 19 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059141-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5914-1
... The first interlude offers guidance on preparing for design work (setting up a personal workspace and gathering concept-work materials). Also, it provides steps to create collective concept workspaces. Exercises are provided to ascertain personal needs working in groups. The group...
Series: Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices
Published: 22 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027270-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2727-0
... This brief “intermezzo” addresses the philosophical practice of the creation of concepts and its role in the approach that Virgin Mary and the Neutrino takes to the ecology of practices. Concept creation is a divergent practice and is characterized here by means of an engagement with the work...
Published: 30 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027195-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2719-5
... This chapter traces the nature of industrial capitalism as a new form of conquest throughout the past century and the present at the US-Mexico border. Alejandro Lugo’s examination of the region reveals relational conceptions of class and changing conceptions of culture from “shared cultural...
Published: 19 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059141-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5914-1
... After initial key project concepts and processes are identified in the research imaginary (Module 1), this module will situate these concepts within three existing literatures: bodies of categorically distinguished work, conventionally bounded by discipline, history, topic, and theme...
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By Robert Bailey
Published: 03 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374121-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7412-1
... This chapter establishes the book’s main argument by proposing to reread claims for the artistic, philosophical, and political significance of Art &amp; Language’s work through the geographical scope of the collective’s work, which is where its interest in concepts is most evident. Bringing...
Published: 02 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027904-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2790-4
... This chapter explores the biographical origins and philosophical development of Marx’s theoretical work. The focus is on Marx’s critique of the phenomenon and concept of “fetishism” in capitalism as a key guiding thread, and on its origins in Marx’s critique of theology. fetishism...
Published: 19 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059141-013
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5914-1
... literatures, or creating a scoping question. In contrast, the exercises in this module are all stand-alone, each dedicated to a particular purpose: preparing ethics boards applications; writing grant and dissertation proposals; and doing multidimensional concept work during field research. research...
Series: Thought in the Act
Published: 03 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374411-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7441-1
... Working from Ido Kedar’s Ido in Autismland: Climbing Out of Autism’s Silent Prison, chapter 5 explores the concept of movement in the context of autism, asking how movement choreographs experience in a neurodiverse account of the everyday. The chapter returns to earlier concepts developed...
Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 14 October 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373612-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7361-2
... displaces a crucial imperial genealogy and history of the present that forms the basis of contemporary imperial counterinsurgency, surveillance, security, and “preparedness” strategies. Here the concept work is around the sentiments and sensibilities that notions of security produce, on the subjects...
Published: 01 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375852-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7585-2
... This essay focuses on Sylvia Wynter's explorations of Frantz Fanon’s concept of sociogenesis and links it to her ethical interrogation of the concept of Human and Humanity—from the European Renaissance to contemporary investigations of biotechnology and neurophysiology. Wynter’s critical...
Published: 23 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059240-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5924-0
..., as incommunicable, as incapable of communicating rationally or internalizing biomedical concepts and practices. It analyzes the subdisciplining of anthropology as work by linguistic and medical anthropologists is generally segregated by competing concepts, journals, professional associations, and graduate-training...
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By Lieba Faier
Published: 13 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059523-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9407-4
... The introduction presents the book’s central concept, the “banality of good,” drawing on Hannah Arendt’s use of banality to refer to a rote thoughtlessness in political life and situating the concept in relation to other work on structural violence and bureaucratic governance. It then outlines...
Series: [sic] Series
Published: 06 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375470-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7547-0
... The phenomena of anamorphism and the subversive effects, which results from the shift or switch of perspectives is also very much present and marks an important aspect in the work of Slavoj Žižek. This change in the perspective, is very much connected to some of Lacan’s concepts, such as object...