ANT4123 Sep 5
● Anthropocene - idea that points out great transformations in human existence
● Tim Ingold: Solid Fluids in the Anthropocene
● Continuously “humaning” — idea that we’re becoming more and more evolved into humanity
● Network Theory: most of modernity is made up of network, the process of arriving at destination
is just as important as final destination, getting here mentally is just as important as getting here
physically - movement becomes continuous - mathematical vs lived time - mesh works - not
about literal direction, but what happens during journey
● Core ideas to undo: nature vs culture - combine the two
● Ingold Themes: Phenomenology, Ontology, Epistemology
ANT4123 Sep 12
Ingold
● Criticizes Neo-darwinism
● Are humans continually evolving? Does culture evolve?
● How are we living life and how could we live it otherwise?
● Both human and nonhuman becomings evolve?
● How do we document people and avoid seeing them as “subjects”? Is consent significant?
● 5 Darwinism and Neo DarwinismYouTube · Origins Resources9 minutes, 58 secondsJun 16,
2015
Potential themes for research project:
● Theory of becoming
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/651466#:~:text=The%20late%20Gilles%20Deleuz
e%20was,at%20once%E2%80%9D%20(Deleuze%201995%3A
● Becoming beings, plants
● Must be an activity, or material, could be a daily activity
● Something that affects humans (I.e. sounds and air)
Taussig
● YAGE - form of psychedelic used by shamans in latin America
● “Shamanism is no substitute for science as regards virology, but as performance art sparking the
imagination, it could dampen panic, ease social isolation, and promote cohesion” (Taussig, P.33).
● shamanism can be a form of art that helps provide spiritual comfort to people
Film: Re-enchantment of nature
● Human desire to control nature
● re-enchantment of nature, metamorphosis,
● Book: Palma africana - lets animals, plants loose in writing - can transform ways of writing
ANT4123 Sep 19
● Read reactivating elements - what does the element mean in terms of anthropological method
and elemental dissolution?
● Healing roots: science, technology studies - turning plants into objects that can be tested in labs
● Anthropocene - idea that points out great transformations in human existence
● Tim Ingold: Solid Fluids in the Anthropocene
● Continuously “humaning” — idea that we’re becoming more and more evolved into humanity
● Network Theory: most of modernity is made up of network, the process of arriving at destination
is just as important as final destination, getting here mentally is just as important as getting here
physically - movement becomes continuous - mathematical vs lived time - mesh works - not
about literal direction, but what happens during journey
● Core ideas to undo: nature vs culture - combine the two
● Ingold Themes: Phenomenology, Ontology, Epistemology
ANT4123 Sep 12
Ingold
● Criticizes Neo-darwinism
● Are humans continually evolving? Does culture evolve?
● How are we living life and how could we live it otherwise?
● Both human and nonhuman becomings evolve?
● How do we document people and avoid seeing them as “subjects”? Is consent significant?
● 5 Darwinism and Neo DarwinismYouTube · Origins Resources9 minutes, 58 secondsJun 16,
2015
Potential themes for research project:
● Theory of becoming
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/651466#:~:text=The%20late%20Gilles%20Deleuz
e%20was,at%20once%E2%80%9D%20(Deleuze%201995%3A
● Becoming beings, plants
● Must be an activity, or material, could be a daily activity
● Something that affects humans (I.e. sounds and air)
Taussig
● YAGE - form of psychedelic used by shamans in latin America
● “Shamanism is no substitute for science as regards virology, but as performance art sparking the
imagination, it could dampen panic, ease social isolation, and promote cohesion” (Taussig, P.33).
● shamanism can be a form of art that helps provide spiritual comfort to people
Film: Re-enchantment of nature
● Human desire to control nature
● re-enchantment of nature, metamorphosis,
● Book: Palma africana - lets animals, plants loose in writing - can transform ways of writing
ANT4123 Sep 19
● Read reactivating elements - what does the element mean in terms of anthropological method
and elemental dissolution?
● Healing roots: science, technology studies - turning plants into objects that can be tested in labs
