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Dominic Boyer
Explores ecological impasses and opportunities of our fossil-fueled civilization
It is more and more obvious that our fossilized civilization has no sustainable future. It is an ecological Ponzi scheme stealing…
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Dominic Boyer examines the politics of wind power and how it is shaped by myriad factors-from the legacies of settler colonialism and indigenous resistance to state bureaucracy and corporate investment-while…
A fascinating account of journalists struggling to maintain their expertise and authority, even as they find their principles and skills profoundly challenged by ever more complex and fast-moving streams of…
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Combining ethnography, history, and social theory, this book exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced German’s conceptions of modernity…
Explores our common habits of thinking about the presence and significance of the channels of information in our lives. Offering analysis of the philosophical and social foundations of contemporary media…
Contributors include: Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Lesley Battler, Ursula Biemann, Dominic Boyer, Italo Calvino, Warren Cariou, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Una Chaudhuri, Claire Colebrook, Stephen Collis, Erik M. Conway, Amy De'Ath, Adam…
Timothy Morton,Dominic Boyer
politics, subjects, objects, philosophy, anthropocene, capital, subscendence, speculative realism, horror, role-playing games
Dominic Boyer,Cymene Howe
Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to…
This volume engages the renaissance of collaborative methodology in anthropology and highlights several recent projects, putting their creators in dialogue with one another. Each project has its own means and…
This volume argues that we need to take a step back from the assumption that we know what theory is to investigate how theory-a matter of concepts, of analytic practice…
This book is about staying together, living together, the dynamics and poetics of togetherness. It demonstrates, through a strong investment in nature studies, non-human studies, and nature culture and cohabitative…
From Ernst Haeckel to Wolfgang Tillmans: how oil has fueled the imaginations of artists and photographers
Like no other raw material, oil pervades every area of our life. Oil is…
In Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-85, Neringa Klumbyte and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova bring together scholarship examining the social and cultural life of the USSR and Eastern Europe…
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editors’ Introduction to 30.1: Circles Not Pyramids, DOMINIC BOYER, JAMES FAUBION, AND CYMENE HOWE; Editorial Curation and the Durability of Anthropological Ideas in a Time of Ambient…
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Cultural Anthropology, 1992-1996, FRED MYERS; Some Reflections on Editing with Contrarian Sensibilities, DANIEL A. SEGAL; Life Above Earth: An Introduction, CYMENE HOWE; Condition-Suspension, TIMOTHY CHOY and JERRY…
TABLE OF CONTENTS: An Infrastructural Moment in the Human Sciences, KIM FORTUN and MIKE FORTUN; Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime, NICHOLAS SHAPIRO; ‘Where…
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editing the Times, ANNE ALLISON and CHARLES PIOT; Anthropology Electric, DOMINIC BOYER; The Charge against Electricity, MIKE ANUSAS and TIM INGOLD; An Anthropology of Electricity from the…
TABLE OF CONTENTS: On the Problem of the Namesake, MARCEL LAFLAMME; The Future of Price: Communicative Infrastructures and the Financialization of Indian Tea, SARAH BESKY; Brotherhood in Dispossession: State Violence…
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Financing Open Access: Introducing Friends of Cultural Anthropology, ANNE ALLISON, DOMINIC BOYER, CHARLES PIOT; Toward an Anthropology of Land Mines: Rogue Infrastructure and Military Waste in the…
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Theorizing Refusal: An Introduction, CAROLE MCGRANAHAN; Consent’s Revenge, AUDRA SIMPSON; Refusal and the Gift of Citizenship, CAROLE MCGRANAHAN; Theorizing (Vaccine) Refusal: Through the Looking Glass, ELISA J…
