Michael M J Fischer

Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"True to its title, " Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice" is about worlds coming into being in technoculture. Attentive especially to the new biologies and biotechnologies, information technologies, and ecological and environmental matters, Michael M. J. Fischer explores what he calls 'ethical plateaus' or domains of ethical challenge. This wonderful book neither condemns nor glorifies emergent worlds; instead it gives us deep and intelligent analysis and reflection from a distinctive ethnographic point of view. 'Culture' comes alive here. As Fischer reminds us vividly, culture is not a variable. Culture is about relationships, about relating as a verb. Culture is a passage and a topos, and Fischer is a masterful guide."--Donna Haraway

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 477
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332381
• ISBN-10: 0822332388
• Artikelnr.: 21257371

Autorenporträt

Michael M. J. Fischer is Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution and coauthor of Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition and Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: The Third Spaces of Anthropology 1
Emergent Forms of Life
1 Deep Play and Social Responsibility in Vienna 29
2 Emergent Forms of Life: Anthropologies of Late or Post Modernities 37
Critique within Technoscientific Worlds
3 Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique: Iranian Cinema in a
Teletechnological World 61
4 Cultural Critique with a Hammer, Gouge, and Woodblock: Art and Medicine
in the Age of Social Retraumatization 90
5 Ethnographic Critique and Technoscientific Narratives: The Old Mole,
Ethical Plateaus, and the Governance of Emergent Biosocial Polities 145
Subjectivities in an Age of Global Connectivity
6 Autobiograhpical Voices (1,2,3) and Mosaic Memory: Ethnicity, Religion,
Science (An Inquiry into the Nature of Autobiographical Genres and Their
Uses in Extending Social Theory) 179
7 Post-Avant-Garde Tasks of Polish Film: Ethnographic Odklamane 225
New Pedagogies and Ethics
8 Worlding Cyperspace: Toward a Critical Ethnography in Space, Time, and
Theory 261
9 Calling the Future(s): Delay Call Forwarding 305
I. Las Meninas and Robotic-Virtual Surgical systems: the Visual
Thread/Fiber-Optic Carrier 309
II. Modules for a Science, Technology, and Society Curriculum:
STS@theTurn_[ ]ooo.mit.edu 333
10 In the Science Zone: The Yanomami and the Fight for Representation 370
Epilogue: On Distinguishing Good and Evil in Emergent Forms of Life
(Woodblock Print to Newspaper Illustration) 393
Notes 397
Bibliography 427
Index 463