... This chapter argues for a kinky empiricism that builds on the singular power of anthropological ways of knowing the world. Kinky empiricism takes established forms to an extreme and turns back to reflect on its own conditions of possibility. At the same time, it deploys methods that create...

... Lecture 6, “Empiricism and Hume,” explores the assumptions and history of empiricism, followed by a closer look at the work of David Hume’s epistemology. psychological empiricism experimental science of the human skepticism ...

... This chapter considers the impact of queer theory on queer anthropology, of queer anthropology on queer theory, and of the insights of queer empiricism on queer studies as a whole—a genealogy too often sidelined or erased. The chapter considers three signal moments: queer studies’ transnational...

... queer theory anthropology empiricism genealogies ...

... critique early America empiricism periodization historiography ...

... psychological empiricism experimental science of the human skepticism ...

... empiricism rationalism slavery Nat Turner Martin Delany ...

... climate change empiricism embodiment science North America ...

... historiography philosophy of history tendency William James radical empiricism ...

... formalist empiricism territorialization and deterritorialization lines (of synthesis and flight) assemblages machinic production collective assemblages of enunciation ...