Porous becomings : anthropological engagements with Michel Serres / edited by Andreas Bandak and Daniel M. Knight.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bandak, Andreas, editor.

Knight, Daniel M., editor.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Serres, Michel.

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Culture--Philosophy.

Culture.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 325 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Porous Becomings brings anthropology into conversation with the late French philosopher Michel Serres (1930-2019). Serres championed an understanding of the human condition that transcended space, time, and episteme. Breaking free from disciplinary dogmas, Serres' reflections on science, culture, technology, art, and religion have proved foundational to scholars across the humanities. The editors note the long anthropological engagement with Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze, and Isabelle Stengers, work which disrupts conventional bounded thinking. They call for a similar conversation with Serres and gather anthropologists, including Elizabeth Povinelli and Michael Jackson, working in that idiom. The book concludes with a conversation between the editors and Jane Bennett, who has made significant use of Serres in her own work. Porous Becomings is intended to be more than simply the insertion of another French philosopher into the anthropological debate, instead providing critical insight into the theoretical and methodological apparatus of the discipline itself, allowing us to better confront a world in entangled polycrisis"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface / Andreas Bandak & Daniel M. Knight

Angel hair anthropology with Michel Serres / Andreas Bandak & Daniel M. Knight

Three tales on the arts of entrapment : natural contracts, melodic contaminations, and spiderweb anthropologies / Alberto Corsín Jiménez

Under the sign of Hermes : transgression, the trickster, and natural justice / Michael Jackson

Keeping to oneself : hospitality and the magical hoard in the Balga of Jordan / Andrew Shryock

Postscript : connective tissue / Andrew Shryock

Serres, the sea, the human, and anthropology / Celia Lowe

Variations of bodies in motion and relation / Elizabeth A. Povinelli

When war percolates : on topologies of earthly violence in a planetary age / David Henig

Feeling safe in a panbiotic world / Steven D. Brown

Michel Serres and Gregory Bateson : implicit dialogue about a recognitive epistemology of nature / Arpad Szakolczai

Angelology / Tom Boylston

Forms of proximity / Stavroula Pipyrou

Comedic transubstantiation : the Hermesian paradox of being funny among stand-up comics in New York City / Morten Nielsen

Michel Serres, wisdom, anthropology / Matei Candea

Afterword: conversations with Jane Bennett / Jane Bennett, Andreas Bandak & Daniel M. Knight.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Porous becomings.

ISBN:

9781478059318

1478059311

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.