Annelise RilesThe Anthropologist is not an actor in the story, but a frame of mind that has the effect of recreating 'aesthetically' the possibility of anthropology.
Anthropology is tasked to attune itself to the fragmentary resonances rather than overarching models or positions in debate.
Ethnography's achievement lies not in the discovery of new knowledge but in the effort to make what we already know analytically accessible.
Exoticization is a methodological device, an effort to render the familiar strange so that it might be apprehended as ethnography.
The Global is not something that exist in the first place, at least as it is imagined modern informational aesthetics.
A Network is a set of institutions, knowledge practices, and artifacts that reflect on themselves and generate their reality.
