A reader’s guide to the “ontological turn” – Part 2. Editor’s note: In the wake of the discussion about the ‘ontological turn’ at this year’s American Anthropological Association conference, we asked several scholars, “which texts or resources would you recommend to a student or colleague interested in the uses of ‘ontology’ as an analytical category in recent work in anthropology and science and technology studies?” This was the answer we received from Javier Lezaun, James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance at the University of Oxford. Those of us who have been brought up in the science and technology studies (STS) tradition look at claims of an ‘ontological turn’ with a strange sense of familiarity: it’s déjà vu all over again! For we can read the whole history of STS (cheekily and retroactively, of course) as a ‘turn to ontology’, albeit one that was rarely thematized as such.
But we are getting ahead of ourselves and disrespecting our good old friend Chronology. [view academic citations] [hide academic citations] Home. The Politics of Ontology — Cultural Anthropology. Much energy has been devoted over the last decade to the so-called ontological turn in the social sciences, and in anthropology in particular. A number of statements, critiques, and discussions of this position are now available (e.g., Viveiros de Castro 2002; Henare et al. 2007; Jensen and Rödje 2010; Pedersen 2011; Holbraad 2012; Ishii 2012; Candea and Alcayna-Stevens 2012; Blaser 2013; Paleček and Risjord 2013; Scott 2013), and its implications for anthropological research are being concertedly explored and passionately debated (e.g., Venkatesan et al. 2009; Alberti et al. 2011; Viveiros de Castro 2011; Laidlaw 2012; Ramos 2012; Pedersen 2012; Strathern 2012). The following set of position papers represent contributions to a well-attended roundtable discussion held at the 2013 annual meeting of the American Anthropological in Chicago.
The participants were invited to address such questions as, Why have social scientists turned to the concept of ontology in the ways that they have? Old.eu.spb.ru/news/files2007/descola.pdf. Vol 1 (2012) Four Lectures given in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, February-March 1998. A tour-de-force in the anthropology of ours and other cosmologies. The first official version of the lessons which sparked one of the most influential anthropological movements of the twenty-first century. "Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s seminal lectures on cosmological perspectivism provide a careful and highly innovative introduction to many themes that have become central to the ontological turn in anthropology, including multinaturalism against multiculturalism, transformation/exchange versus creation/production, and performativity replacing representation.
They offer invaluable insight into an anthropology operating in a space where we have been neither modern nor primitive. " - Casper Bruun Jensen, Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen, author of Ontologies for developing things: making health care futures through technology (Sense 2010) Table of Contents Introduction. Readings | The Nature of Creativity | Linguistics and Philosophy. TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society provides a forum to discuss the challenges humanity is facing in the information society today.
It promotes contributions within an emerging science of the information society with a special interest in critical studies following the highest standards of peer review. It is a journal that focuses on information society studies and studies of media, digital media, information and communication in society with a special interest in critical studies in these thematic areas. The journal has a special interest in disseminating articles that focus on the role of information (cognition/knowledge, communication, cooperation) in contemporary capitalist societies. Papers should reflect on how the presented findings contribute to the illumination of conditions that foster or hinder the advancement of a global sustainable and participatory information society. 1. Cosmologies: perspectivism — www.haujournal.org. Cosmologies: perspectivism Can the anthropological theorist justifiably deny theoretical insight to his subjects?
- Irving Goldman, The mouth of heaven The subject of these lectures is that aspect of Amerindian thought which has been called its "perspectival quality" (Arhem 1993) or "perspectival relativity" (Gray 1996): the conception, common to many peoples of the continent, according to which the world is inhabited by different sorts of subjects or persons, human and non-human, which apprehend reality from distinct points of view. I shall try to persuade you that this idea cannot be reduced to our current concept of relativism (Lima 1995, 1996), which at first it seems to call to mind.
Such an ethnographically-based reshuffling of our conceptual schemes leads me to suggest the expression "multinaturalism" to designate one of the contrastive features of Amerindian thought in relation to modern "multiculturalist" cosmologies. Perspectivism in Perspectivism in the literature: some examples. 1. Cosmologies: perspectivism | Viveiros de Castro | HAU: Masterclass Series. At-HQ – Sharing some doubts about the creative industries and how these should be addressed by Cultural Studies | trinketization. I have to admit that I have far more doubts and questions than certainties or answers about how the whole socio-economic paradigm opened by the creative industries should be addressed by cultural studies.
The public discourse around the creative industries officially appeared in the UK in about 1996 and was heavily endorsed by New Labour related think tanks (such as DEMOS), to be later introduced by government as a model for economic development; now, twelve years later, academia has introduced the creative industries as a subject matter and this has opened many questions that I believe we should address. How are we going to relate to this economic paradigm? What kind of approaches are best suited to deal with the different conceptual issues raised? What kind of workers are we going to prepare? These are some doubts among others that need to be raised. Like this: Like Loading... Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. Www.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/cornell-law-review/upload/Solum-response-final.pdf. Creative Citizenship and the Creative Industries | interactivecultures.
I always find that the more you know your audience (personally or professionally) the more daunting it is to stand up and present to them about your work. My lofty ambition for such occasions is to at least have the audience say ‘oh, that’s what he’s doing.’ Last week I presented at the first of our research seminars for the academic year. These are largely internal affairs with a mix of academic staff and postgraduate students. My research colleague Jerome Turner and I were introducing the audience to the scope and scale of the work we are doing on the ‘Media, Community and the Creative Citizen‘ project. We lead the strand of research about Hyperlocal Publishing yet I tried give the presentation a broader context by outlining the circumstances in which the project came into being and emphasising that our research question is essentially one that ask questions about the nature of the Creative Economy. Below is a video of our presentation with additional links below.
Studio Studies: Ethnographies of Creative Production – Open panel at the EASST/4S Meeting (Oct 2012, Copenhagen) | Design Journal & Conference Calls. Studio Studies: Ethnographies of Creative Production – Open panel at the EASST/4S Meeting (Oct 2012, Copenhagen) | Design Journal & Conference Calls. Postcard from Rome. We are currently witnessing a profound cultural implode which mirrors in its intensity the recent economic collapse. As the markets round on nations unable to sustain the debt brought upon them through bank bail-outs, and as the proverbial house of cards looks set to spectacularly fall once again, the arts assumes a familiar historical position. If, as Nietzsche wrote in On the Genealogy of Morality (1887), the first ever public pardon from a king to a subject was given as a show of strength, the patronage of the arts in times of prosperity is given as a tolerance of the useless, the frivolous, as a display of the confidence of an administration in its resistance to such whimsy.
Yet, when that wealth has passed, when the administration is weak, the arts becomes a liability, the pardon is lifted and a reckoning begins, for it is in its uselessness, its detachment from reality that art’s political content resides. About the author Mike Watson is an art theorist and curator based in Italy. European Alternatives.
Inspire, engage, empower | European Cultural Foundation. English. Political Arithmetick by Sir William Petty. Sir William Petty Or a Discourse Concerning, The Extent and Value of Lands, People, Buildings: Husbandry, Manufacture, Commerce, Fishery, Artizans, Seamen, Soldiers; Publick Revenues, Interest, Taxes, Superlucration, Registries, Banks, Valuation of Men, Increasing of Seamen, of Militia's, Harbours, Situation, Shipping, Power at Sea, &c. As the same relates to every Country in general, but more particularly to the Territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and his Neighbours of Holland, Zealand, and France .
By Sir WILLIAM PETTY, Late Fellow of the Royal Society. London, Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock, and Hen. Written: 3rd Edition, 1690Source: This e-text was prepared by Rod Hay and posted at the Archive for the History of Economic Thought, McMaster University, Canada, April 1, 1998. Foreword LET this Book Called Political Arithmetick, which was long since Writ by Sir William Petty deceased, be Printed. Preface. THE Principal Conclusions of this treatise are: CHAP. Chap. Chap. Xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/philfurn.html. By Edgar Allan Poe (1840) In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme.
The Italians have but little sentiment beyond marbles and colours. In France, "meliora probant, deteriora "sequuntur — the people are too much a race of gadabouts to maintain those household proprieties of which, indeed, they have a delicate appreciation, or at least the elements of a proper sense. The Chinese and most of the eastern races have a warm but inappropriate fancy. The Scotch are "poor "decorists. The Dutch have, perhaps, an indeterminate idea that a curtain is not a cabbage.
How this happens, it is not difficult to see. To speak less abstractly. The people "will "imitate the nobles, and the result is a thorough diffusion of the proper feeling. There could be nothing more directly offensive to the eye of an artist than the interior of what is termed in the United States — that is to say, in Appallachia — a well-furnished apartment. The Electronic Grosseteste. E-flux. Centre for Imaginative Ethnography. NCRM Training and Events. Frankenstein: The Pennsylvania Electronic Edition. The Sociological Imagination. The Good Project. Errant bodies | publications. Project Lamar.