Anna TsingThinkers

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Circulation is a cultural process serving as its own form of abstraction, evaluation, and constraint.

Circulation is, in capitalist discourse, a metaphor calling forth images of the healthy flow of blood in the body whereas penetration evokes a kind of rape.

Development has often thrived more through the coherence of its internal logic than through any insight into the social situations in which it was expected to intervene.

Environment is that form of nature which is vulnerable to human-made disaster.

Flow is movement stimulated through political and economic channels.

Friction is the sticky materiality of practical encounters and the makeshift links across distance and difference that shape global futures and ensure their uncertain status.

Fungus is the enemy of colonialism by way of ruining new farming methods of larger mono crops.

The Local is not the particular stopping place of the global there is only place making and travel flow.

The Local is often overly focused on in anthropology such that it hampers our ability to capture the specificity of transcendent structures most often associated with the global, such as political economy.

Marginality is paradoxical in that one ties oneself to the state by standing outside of it an constitute it locally by fleeing from it.

A Model is a tool rather than a representation of truth.