Bandak / Knight Porous Becomings

Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4780-5931-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

The contributors to Porous Becomings draw on the work of French philosopher of science Michel Serres (1930–2019) to show how it opens new pathways for anthropological knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bandak, Andreas

Knight, Daniel M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface / Andreas Bandak and Daniel M. Knight ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Angel Hair Anthropology with Michel Serres / Andreas Bandak and Daniel M. Knight 1
Part I. Of Parasites and Contracts
1. Three Tales on the Arts of Entrapment: Natural Contracts, Melodic Contaminations, and Spiderweb Anthropologies / Alberto Corsín Jiménez 33
2. Under the Sign of Hermes: Transgression, the Trickster, and Natural Justice / Michael Jackson 49
3. Keeping to Oneself: Hospitality and the Magical Hoard in the Balga of Jordan / Andrew Shryock 69
Chapter 3 Postscript: Connective Tissue / Andrew Shryock 91
4. Serres, the Sea, the Human, and Anthropology / Celia Lowe 99
Part II. Bodies in Time
5. Variations of Bodies in Motion and Relation / Elizabeth A. Povinelli 117
6. When War Percolates: On Topologies of Earthly Violence in a Planetary Age / David Henig 135
7. Feeling Safe in a Panbiotic World / Steven D. Brown 153
8. Michel Serres and Gregory Bateson: Implicit Dialogue about a Recognitive Epistemology of Nature / Arpad Szakolczai 175
Part III. Knowledge Quests
9. Angelology / Tom Boylston 199
10. Forms of Proximity / Stavroula Pipyrou 215
11. Comedic Transubstantiation: The Hermesian Paradox of Being Funny among Stand-Up Comics in New York City / Morten Nielsen 233
12. Michel Serres, Wisdom, Anthropology / Matei Candea 253
Afterword: Conversations with Jane Bennett / Jane Bennett, Andreas Bandak, and Daniel M. Knight 273
References 289
Contributors 311
Index 315

Über Autor(innen)

Andreas Bandak is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen and author of Exemplary Life: Modelling Sainthood in Christian Syria.

Daniel M. Knight is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews and author of Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen.