This is a summary of what is a ‘second empiricism’ written about by Latour in ‘What Is Given in Experience?’ (2005) boundary 2, 32(1), 223-237. Latour’s piece is a review of Isabelle Stengers’s Penser avec Whitehead: Une libre et sauvage création de concepts translated as Thinking with Whitehead: the free and wild invention of concepts) [...]
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Deleuzian ethnography? Can you ever get enough?
‘It is not the sensible being but the being of the sensible. It is not the given but that by which the given is given.’ (Deleuze, 1995, Difference and Repetition, p 139-140). What does this entail for ethnography? Shortly after I returned from fieldwork I was often asked ‘Did you get enough material?’ ‘Did you [...]
number as participant-comparison part 4
Part 1|Part 2|Part 3|Part 4 One interim conclusion that might be drawn from part 3 is that objects are not known through a description of their properties, but objects are known through the difference that they make. Moreover, if the difference objects make are as participant-comparisons, then this is the material and dynamic work of [...]
number as participant-comparison part 3
Part 1|Part 2|Part 3|Part 4 Comparisons as imperium brings with it the active modern subject (who imposes the comparison), and the passive modern object (who is compared). Such a subject strives to know the world through describing the properties of objects (as objects having properties is the comparison imposed), with the hope of determining modern [...]
