STEPS TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL LABORATORY

Authors

  • Paul Rabinow University of California at Berkeley

Abstract

The challenge is to invent new forms of inquiry, writing, and ethics for an anthropology of the contemporary. The problem is: how to rethink and remake the conditions of contemporary
knowledge production, dissemination, and critique, in the interpretive sciences? The direction forward does not include yet another attempt to have anthropology imitate a natural science model anymore than it implies a foreclosure of anthropology finding a form as a distinctive knowledge practice. Mimicry has proved to be neither prophetic of the course of disciplinary change nor empirically fruitful. It has, however, been fertile in bringing forth and fueling polemics. The twentieth century has taught us that polemics and prophecy do not lead to an exit from epistemological or ethical immaturity.

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Published

2014-11-16

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How to Cite

Rabinow, P. (2014). STEPS TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL LABORATORY. Antropología Experimental, 9. https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/rae/article/view/1985