ethnography that loops

late industrialism

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

historian of life sciences

innovator in the field of

anthropology of disaster

Science and Technology Studies (STS)

STS scholar

cultural anthropology

academic

anthropology

is a method of feeding ethnographic findings back into an ethnographic engagement by taking care to point to gaps in problem domains, and thus to promote creative new articulations in different situations.

using ethnographic techniques to discern the discursive risks and gaps of a particular problem domain so that further ethnographic engagement in that domain is responsive and creative, provoking new articulations, attending to emergent realities. Ethnographic findings are thus fed back into ethnographic engagement. This mode of ethnography stages collaboration with interlocutors to activate new idioms and ways of engaging the world.

is a language for which there are no indigenous idioms.

languages for which there are no indigenous idioms' 'What I've called 'late industrialism' calls for modes of thought, collaboration and practice that we haven't yet figured out' (interview) Interview:

is historical period characterized by degraded infrastructure, exhausted paradigms, and the incessant chatter of new media.

a historical period characterized by degraded infrastructure, exhausted paradigms, and the incessant chatter of new media.

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