ISBN:
9780857459114
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (198 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
Parallel Title:
Print version Anthropological Trompe L'Oeil for a Common World, An : An Essay on the Economy of Knowledge
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Anthropology ; Philosophy
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Political anthropology ; Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Our political age is characterized by forms of description as 'big' as the world itself: talk of 'public knowledge' and 'public goods,' 'the commons' or 'global justice' create an exigency for modes of governance that leave little room for smallness itself. Rather than question the politics of adjudication between the big and the small, this book inquires instead into the cultural epistemology fueling the aggrandizement and miniaturization of description itself. Incorporating analytical frameworks from science studies, ethnography, and political and economic theory, this book charts an itin
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Zoom In; Introduction; Part I - Trompe l'Oeil; Chapter 1 - Surviving Comparison; Chapter 2 - The Strabismic Eye; Chapter 3 - Reversibility/Proportionality; Zoom Out; Part II - Common World; Chapter 4 - The Political/Phantasmagoria; Chapter 5 - Predation/Production; Chapter 6 - Exteriority/Interiority; At Perpendicular Angles; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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