ISBN:
069113362X
,
0691133638
,
9780691133621
,
9780691133638
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 149 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Marking Time : On the Anthropology of the Contemporary
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Contemporary, The
;
Anthropology Philosophy
Abstract:
In Marking Time, Paul Rabinow presents his most recent reflections on the anthropology of the contemporary. Drawing richly on the work of Michel Foucault, John Dewey, Niklas Luhmann, and, most interestingly, German painter Gerhard Richter, Rabinow offers a set of conceptual tools for scholars examining cutting-edge practices in the life sciences, security, new media and art practices, and other emergent phenomena. Taking up topics that include bioethics, anger and competition among molecular biologists, the lessons of the Drosophila genome, the nature of ethnographic observation in radically
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Legitimacy of the Contemporary; Adjacency; Observation; Vehement Contemporaries; Marking Time: Gerhard Richter; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-145) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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