Michael M.J. FischerThinkers

Anthropology is a canary discipline, in that our task is much like the canaries that miners take into the mines to sniff out deadly gases to show where the mines need to be vented or reworked.

Culture is not a variable... it is relational, it is elsewhere, it is in passage, it is where meaning is woven and renewed often through gaps and silences, and forces beyond the conscious control of individuals, and yet the space where individual and institutional social responsibility and ethical struggle take place.

Hermeneutics is a kind of empirical objectivity to be tested and corrected.

Life is outrunning the pedagogies in which we have been trained. It is made up of of emergent, dominant, and historical horizons.

Modernity is so thoroughly post-structuralist that decentralized systems (such as the internet) are necessary lest there by systematic breakdown.