Bøger af Dominic Boyer

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. SOBO; "Refusal as Act, Refusal as Abstention," ERICA WEISS; "Practicing Uncertainty: Scenario-Based Preparedness Exercises in Israel," LIMOR SAMIMIAN-DARASH; "Seeing (from) Digital Peripheries: Technology and Transparency in Kenya's Silicon Savannah," LISA POGGIALI; "You-Will-Kill-Me-Beans: Taste and the Politics of Necessity in Humanitarian Aid," MICAH M. TRAPP; "A Magical Reorientation of the Modern: Professional Organizers and Thingly Care in Contemporary North America," KATIE KILROY-MARAC

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. SOBO; "Refusal as Act, Refusal as Abstention," ERICA WEISS; "Practicing Uncertainty: Scenario-Based Preparedness Exercises in Israel," LIMOR SAMIMIAN-DARASH; "Seeing (from) Digital Peripheries: Technology and Transparency in Kenya's Silicon Savannah," LISA POGGIALI; "You-Will-Kill-Me-Beans: Taste and the Politics of Necessity in Humanitarian Aid," MICAH M. TRAPP; "A Magical Reorientation of the Modern: Professional Organizers and Thingly Care in Contemporary North America," KATIE KILROY-MARAC

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 DMZ," ELEANA J. KIM; "What if the Environment is a Person? Lineages of Epigenetic Science in a Toxic China," JANELLE LAMOREAUX; "Excavating Legal Landscapes: Juridical Archaeology and the Politics of Bureaucratic Materiality in Bogota, Colombia," FEDERICO PEREZ; "Taking Love Seriously in Human-Plant Relations in Mozambique: Toward an Anthropology of Affective Encounters," JULIE SOLEIL ARCHAMBAULT; "Indirect Activism: Graffiti and Political Possibility in Athens, Greece," OTHON ALEXANDRAKIS; "Last Chance Incorporated," JASON PINE"

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 and the Ethics of Expectation in Turkey," KABIR TAMBAR; "Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils, Selva, and Small Farmers under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombian War on Drugs," KRISTINA LYONS; "#Indebted: Disciplining the Moral Valence of Mortgage Debt Online," NOELLE STOUT; "Rule by Good People: Health Governance and the Violence of Moral Authority in Thailand," DAENA AKI FUNAHASHI; "Circulating Ignorance: Complexity and Agnogenesis in the Obesity 'Epidemic, '" EMILIA SANABRIA

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 Global South," AKHIL GUPTA; "Tentacles of Modernity: Why Electricity Needs Anthropology," TANJA WINTHER and HAROLD WILHITE; "Economy Electric," CANAY OZDEN-SCHILLING; "Errance and Elsewheres among Africans Waiting to Restart Their Journeys in Dakar, Senegal," JONATHAN ECHEVERRI ZULUAGA; "Geology, Potentiality, Speculation: On the Indeterminacy of First Oil," GISA WESZKALNYS; "Herding Species: Biosecurity, Posthuman Labor, and the American Industrial Pig," ALEX BLANCHETTE; "Our Master's Voice, the Practice of Melancholy, and Minor Sciences," MATTHEW WOLF-MEYER"

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 there is fire, there is politics': Ungovernability and Material Life in Urban South Africa," KERRY RYAN CHANCE; "Export-Quality Martyrs: Roman Catholicism and Transnational Labor in the Philippines," JULIUS BAUTISTA; "The Sociopolitical Lives of Dead Bodies: Tibetan Self-Immolation Protest as Mass Media," CHARLENE MAKLEY; "The Work of Waiting: Love and Money in Korean Chinese Transnational Migration," JUNE HEE KWON; "What is a Situation? An Assemblic Ethnography of the Drug War," JARRETT ZIGON

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 ZEE; "Liberating Sick Birds: Poststructuralist Perspectives on the Biopolitics of Avian Influenza," FREDERIC KECK; "Better Weather? The Cultivation of the Sky," MIKE HULME; "Relational Space: An Earthly Installation," DEBBORA BATTAGLIA, DAVID VALENTINE, and VALERIE OLSON; "Occupation Bedbugs: Or, the Urgency and Agency of Professional Pragmatism," E. SUMMERSON CARR; "Anticipatory States: Tsunami, War, and Insecurity in Sri Lanka," VIVIAN Y. CHOI; "The Currency of Failure: Money and Middle-Class Critique in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires," SARAH MUIR; "The Tragic Denouement of English Sociality," DANIEL MILLER"

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 Innovation: A Comment on the Thirtieth Year of Cultural Anthropology," GEORGE E. MARCUS; "Wild Goose Chase: The Displacement of Influenza Research in the Fields of Poyang Lake, China," LYLE FEARNLEY; "The Thing in a Jar: Mushrooms and Ontological Speculations in Post-Yugoslavia," LARISA JASAREVIC; "'The Taste No Chef Can Give': Processing Street Food in Mumbai," HARRIS SOLOMON; "Totalitarian Tears: Does the Crowd Really Mean It?" WILLIAM MAZZARELLA; "States of Camouflage," IEVA JUSIONYTE; "An Urban Frontier: Respatializing Government in Remote Northern Australia," DANIEL T. FISHER; "From Anthropologist to Actant (and Back to Anthropology): Position, Impasse, and Observation in Sociotechnical Collaboration," ANTHONY STAVRIANAKIS

The time of hypersubjects is ending. Their desert-apocalypse-fire-and-death cults aren't going to save them this time. Meanwhile the time of hyposubjects is just beginning. This text is an exercise in chaotic and flimsy thinking that will possibly waste your time. But it is the sincere effort of two reform-minded hypersubjects to decenter themselves and to help nurture hyposubjective humanity. Here are some of the things we say in this book: 1) Hyposubjects are the native species of the Anthropocene and are only just now beginning to discover what they might be and become. 2) Like their hyperobjective environment, hyposubjects are also multiphasic and plural: not-yet, neither here nor there, less than the sum of their parts. They are, in other words, subscendent (moving toward relations) rather than transcendent (rising above relations). They do not pursue or pretend to absolute knowledge or language, let alone power. Instead they play; they care; they adapt; they hurt; they laugh. 3) Hyposubjects are necessarily feminist, colorful, queer, ecological, transhuman, and intrahuman. They do not recognize the rule of androleukoheteropetromodernity and the apex species behavior it epitomizes and reinforces. But they also hold the bliss-horror of extinction fantasies at bay, because hyposubjects' befores, nows, and afters are many. 4) Hyposubjects are squatters and bricoleuses. They inhabit the cracks and hollows. They turn things inside out and work miracles with scraps and remains. They unplug from carbon gridlife; they hack and redistribute its stored energies for their own purposes. 5) Hyposubjects make revolutions where technomodern radars can't glimpse them. They patiently ignore expert advice that they do not or cannot exist. They are skeptical of efforts to summarize them, including everything we have just said.

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 outlining the fundamental impact of energy and fuel on political power.

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 information.

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 wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of two single-authored books that draw on shared field sites, archives, and encounters that can be productively read together, yet also stand alone in their analytic ambitions. In his volume, Energopolitics, 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. Drawing on interviews with activists, campesinos, engineers, bureaucrats, politicians, and bankers, Boyer outlines the fundamental impact of energy and fuel on political power. Boyer also demonstrates how large conceptual frameworks cannot adequately explain the fraught and uniquely complicated conditions on the Isthmus, illustrating the need to resist narratives of Anthropocenic universalism and to attend to local particularities. In her volume, Ecologics, Howe narrates how an antidote to the Anthropocene became both failure and success. Tracking the development of what would have been Latin America's largest wind park, Howe documents indigenous people's resistance to the project and the political and corporate climate that derailed its renewable energy potential. Using feminist and more-than-human theories, Howe demonstrates how the dynamics of energy and environment cannot be captured without understanding how human aspirations for energy articulate with nonhuman beings, technomaterial objects, and the geophysical forces that are at the heart of wind and power.

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 theory as well as everyday strategies of knowing media, this book addresses the advantages and limitations of different ways of understanding it.