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Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 454-473, June 2025.
Abstract This article critically assesses the impact of political and moral positions within contemporary anthropology. Re‐examining ideas of advocacy and the ethical within the discipline, it argues for an alternative political anthropology that focuses on perpetration rather than victimhood, offenders rather than the offended.
Trine Mygind Korsby, Henrik Vigh
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Peter Sloterdijk: la técnica como ejercicio ontológico

Theoría Revista del Colegio de Filosofía, 2021
En este trabajo, se discute la relación entre la ontología de las esferas y el papel de la técnica en el pensamiento de Sloterdijk, considerando la idea de ejercicio como forma de equipamiento inmunológico.
Leopoldo Tillería Aqueveque
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“Living in the City, You Can End Up With the City Living in You”: Urban Struggles and Mental Health in Accra, Ghana

City &Society, Volume 37, Issue 1, April 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the intersection of city life and mental health in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, including interviews and focus group discussions, it explores how urban precarity, infrastructural violence, and uncertainty in a rapidly shifting world contribute to mental distress.
Josiane Carine Tantchou
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Insurgent envelopment: The emergency blanket and scenes of exposure at border zones

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 49, Issue 4, December 2024.
Short Abstract By focusing on the emergency blanket, this paper offers an account of how the geographies of exposure are mediated materially, aesthetically, and politically by forms of envelopment. Highlighting how the emergency blanket is deployed as a device of minimal comfort at border zones, the paper examines artistic works that repurpose this ...
Derek McCormack
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Peter Sloterdijk. La decostruzione mediologica della filosofia del linguaggio

Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2010
Peter Sloterdijk. A Mediologic Deconstruction of Philosophy of Language - This paper focuses on Peter Sloterdijk’s philosophy of language: the analysis shows the movement that leads him to reject language as the centre of reflection and to replace it ...
Antonio Lucci
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Houston, We Have a Problem. Sloterdijk and the Anthropocene

European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 2022
Island, raft, bell, greenhouse, hot-air balloon, cruise ship, spaceship: These are some of the metaphors mobilized by Peter Sloterdijk to describe the spaces within which the human being is born and reproduces itslef, from the Pleistocene to the ...
Mirko Alagna
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Imagine, predict or perform? Reclaiming the future in sociology beyond scientism and catastrophism

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 319-335, September 2024.
Abstract In this article I examine and criticize some mainstream views of the future within scholarly debates, mainly in social science. The goal is to review the strategies sociology is following to include the future as a theme of its own reflections. Such strategies also reveal relevant aspects of the society in which they are developed.
Andrea M. Maccarini
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Homo Sloterdijk: filosofía de la tecnología en la Posmodernidad

Sophía: Colección de Filosofía de la Educación, 2020
El artículo intenta abordar la asistemática filosofía del pensador alemán Peter Sloterdijk, la ‘bestia negra’ de la filosofía actual, a partir de la idea de que su nuevo ‘gran relato’ (entregado fundamentalmente en esa mezcla de filosofía de la historia ...
Leopoldo Edgardo Tillería Aqueveque
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EFFECTIVE CYNICISM: Waste, Power, and the Negotiation of Urban Decay and Renewal in Ulaanbaatar

Cultural Anthropology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 428-454, August 2024.
ABSTRACT In this article, I show how “effective cynicism” allows residents to decipher unequal power relations in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Ethnographic analysis of the myriad ways residents hold onto dilapidated housing in a failed redevelopment scheme reveals how residents' cynical reflections assist in their efforts to decipher and mobilize state ...
REBEKAH PLUECKHAHN
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Statt eines Geständnisses.

EspacesTemps.net, 2011
Meine Damen und Herren, liebe Freunde,   Es ist für mich eine große Ehre, um vom großen Vergnügen nicht zu reden, an diesem Abend in Lausann den Charles Veillon-Preis entgegennehmen zu dürfen, den mir die Jury mit einer hochwillkommenen Geste der ...
Peter Sloterdijk
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