... a Levinasian conception of responsibility. Finally, and in response to this critique, I turn to the unique case of Vancouver, Canada and the enactment of what I call a politics of world-building, through which political agonists are in the process of creating a new world characterized as attuned with itself...

... curiosity mourning attunement ethology Vinciane Despret ...

... political ontology attunement political activity responsibilization harm reduction ...

... political ontology attunement political activity responsibilization harm reduction ...

... protection Howard Thurman attunement Harriet Tubman escape from slavery ...

... of entities there are in the world), affect (cognitive and corporeal attunements to such entities), and selfhood (relatively reflexive centers of attunement). Broadly speaking, it argues that these three themes are empirically, methodologically, and theoretically inseparable—each must be simultaneously...

... Chapter 7 draws close to the philosopher, psychologist, animal-human student, and cultural theorist Vinciane Despret because of her ability to think-with other beings, human or not. Despret’s work on “attunement” and on critters “rendering each other capable” of unexpected feats in actual...

...—women who helped their families and friends escape to freedom. protection Howard Thurman attunement Harriet Tubman escape from slavery ...

... which political agonists are in the process of creating a new world characterized as attuned with itself. political ontology attunement political activity responsibilization harm reduction ...

... together. As it attunes, spatial and temporal dimensions come into play; writing skids over surfaces, pauses on a detail, grows capacious or pinched. This chapter offers four very different scenes of precarity as a form that accretes, accrues, and wears out and one that takes place through attachments...

... as attuned with itself. political ontology attunement political activity responsibilization harm reduction The city of Ostrava is famous throughout the Czech Republic for its residents’ respiratory problems, with some scientists contending that Ostrava’s children suffer from the world’s...

... concerned with the sonorities of religious practice. Key themes include the following: how phenomenologies of sound have provided a key point of reference for theological reflection in different traditions; the role of listening within practices of religious and ethical attunement; the acoustic and musical...

... This chapter situates contemporary ethnography within late industrialism, a historical period characterized by degraded infrastructure, exhausted paradigms, and the incessant chatter of new media. In the spirit of Writing Culture, it calls for ethnography attuned to its times. It also calls...

... effects in human bodies. The conclusion also returns to the question of “poetics” as a suitable approach for speaking of flesh. Writing flesh requires languages attuned to silences, disruptions, and opacity, and to the complex qualities of sensation. Since flesh is always becoming, since it envelops...

... This chapter explores the work of the poet, writer, and psychologist Lydia Kwa. Attuned to psychoanalytical knots, Kwa's four novels are about jouissance (ecstasy out of pain, implicitly or explicitly sexual) in lives affected by psychosocial and sociopolitical change. They can be read...

... attunements and antagonisms that come to be locally naturalized as “place” and “voice.” acoustemology relational ontology anthropology of sound intervocality interspecies relationality ...

.... It means producing it. The production of insecurity registers in fear. The production of fear is a prime opportunity to modulate the unfolding of events through affective priming. The result is an “affective attunement” triggering a “collective individuation” (Simondon). The means by which preemption...

.... The more recent return of barricades, from the so-called Arab Spring to the European Indignados and various Occupy movements, allows us to appreciate anew the spirit of the barricades in more varied terms attuned to the combination of vulnerability and resourcefulness that has vividly marked...