T Rees
Biographic Data
| ID | 15377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Rees |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Rees |
| SIGNATURE | REES T |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8273-7393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Non-Human Words: On GPT-3 as a Philosophical Laboratory
In this essay, I investigate the effect of OpenAI's GPT-3 on the modern concept of the human (as alone capable of reason and language) and of machines (as devoid of reason and language). I show how GPT-3 and other transformer-based language models give rise to a new, structuralist concept of language, implicit in which is a new understanding of human and machine that unfolds far beyond the reach of the categories we have inherited from the past. …
What if
what if ... . . .what if the equation of anthropology, study of things human, with ethnography, the study and description of an ethnos, were a recent event?And what if one set out to undo this equation?If one were to cut loose the former from the latter?Actually, what if one were to not only cut loose -liberate -anthropology from ethnos/ethnography/ethnology but also from "the human" tout court -from the in its aspirations time and place independ…
On anthropology
Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary
After the Human
Previous articleNext article FreeBook Symposiumafter the humanTobias ReesTobias ReesNew School of Social Research Search for more articles by this author New School of Social ResearchPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThere is a line by Rilke-the poet-in which he notes:"Alles/ist nicht es selbst.""Everything/is not itself."As if it…
After Ethnos
For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others—of how social structures secretly organized the living-together of a given society, of how a people had endowed the world surrounding them with cultural meaning. While the poetics and politics of anthropology have changed dramatically over the course of a century, the basic equati…
Plastic Reason, Part One
Plastic Reason, Part Two
Metrics: What Counts in Global Health ed. by Vincanne Adams
Reviewed by: Metrics: What Counts in Global Health ed. by Vincanne Adams Tobias Rees Vincanne Adams, ed. Metrics: What Counts in Global Health. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. 258 pp. Ill. $24.95 (978-0-8223-7448-0). Most scholars agree that the shift from international health (IH) to global health (GH) marks a rupture in the history of world health. A prominent feature of this rupture has been the shift from the twentieth-century comm…
Developmental diseases-an introduction to the neurological human (in motion): Developmental diseases
Plasticity has conceptually guided much research on the adult human brain since the late 1990s. The emergence of this idea has catapulted the neurosciences beyond the synaptic, chemical conception of the brain, its diseases, and its humans that dominated the second half of the 20th century. I explore the figure of what I call the "neurological human" to bring such mutations of the neuroscientific order of knowledge into a sharp analytical focus. …
Humanity/Plan; or, On the "Stateless" Today (Also Being an Anthropology of Global Health)
My fieldwork among HIV vaccine researchers, activists, and funders has led me to suggest that humanity-when it was first conceived of in the late eighteenth century-emerged as a plan, a plan for how to establish a future anticipated in the present. The powerful implication of this fieldwork-based suggestion is that what humanity is-or if it is at all-depends on the available humanity plans. I argue in this essay that we are currently seeing the e…
As if “theory” is the only form of thinking, and “social theory” the only form of critique: Thoughts on an anthropology BST (beyond society and theory)
On the challenge – and the beauty – of (contemporary) anthropological inquiry: A response to Edward Dutton
Franco and the Axis Stigma
Journal Article Franco and the Axis Stigma Get access Franco and the Axis Stigma, by David Wingeate Pike (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; pp. xv + 220. £45). Tim Rees Tim Rees University of Exeter [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 513, April 2010, Pages 493–495, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceq024 Published: 01 April 2010
Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas by Stefan Helmreich
Being neurologically human today: Life and science and adult cerebral plasticity (an ethical analysis)
Throughout the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain is fully developed, organized in fixed and immutable function-specific neural circuits. Since the discovery of the profound plasticity of the human brain in the late 1990s, this belief has been thoroughly undermined. In this article, combining ethnographic and historical research, I develop an "ethical analysis" to show that (and in what concrete sense) the emergence of a…
To open up new spaces of thought: Anthropology BSC (beyond society and culture)
An Early Bronze Age multiple burial cist from Mill Road Industrial Estate, Linlithgow, West Lothian
Evaluation of a short cist discovered during construction works revealed five inhumations and a cremation. The burial group consisted of a minimum of five children and an adult with a misshapen skull. Four of the burials have been dated to the Early Bronze Age. The burials were accompanied by a piece of flint debitage and a retouched tool. The cist has been placed in a substantial pit an constructed in such a way that it could be reopened. It is …
Accommodation, Integration, Cultural Pluralism, and Assimilation: Their Place in Equilibrium Theories of Society
Mexico and the Spanish Republicans
Journal Article Mexico and the Spanish Republicans Get access Mexico and the Spanish Republicans. By Lois Elwyn Smith. Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press; London, Cambridge University Press, 1955. vi+152 pp. Tables. Bibliog. Index. (University of California Publications in Political Science, Vol. 4, No. 2.) 91⁄4′′×6′′. $1.75. T. Ifor Rees T. Ifor Rees Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Int…
Being neurologically human today: Life and science and adult cerebral plasticity (an ethical analysis)
Throughout the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain is fully developed, organized in fixed and immutable function-specific neural circuits. Since the discovery of the profound plasticity of the human brain in the late 1990s, this belief has been thoroughly undermined. In this article, combining ethnographic and historical research, I develop an "ethical analysis" to show that (and in what concrete sense) the emergence of a…
After Ethnos
For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others—of how social structures secretly organized the living-together of a given society, of how a people had endowed the world surrounding them with cultural meaning. While the poetics and politics of anthropology have changed dramatically over the course of a century, the basic equati…
Humanity/Plan; or, On the "Stateless" Today (Also Being an Anthropology of Global Health)
My fieldwork among HIV vaccine researchers, activists, and funders has led me to suggest that humanity-when it was first conceived of in the late eighteenth century-emerged as a plan, a plan for how to establish a future anticipated in the present. The powerful implication of this fieldwork-based suggestion is that what humanity is-or if it is at all-depends on the available humanity plans. I argue in this essay that we are currently seeing the e…
To open up new spaces of thought: Anthropology BSC (beyond society and culture)
Non-Human Words: On GPT-3 as a Philosophical Laboratory
In this essay, I investigate the effect of OpenAI's GPT-3 on the modern concept of the human (as alone capable of reason and language) and of machines (as devoid of reason and language). I show how GPT-3 and other transformer-based language models give rise to a new, structuralist concept of language, implicit in which is a new understanding of human and machine that unfolds far beyond the reach of the categories we have inherited from the past. …
An Early Bronze Age multiple burial cist from Mill Road Industrial Estate, Linlithgow, West Lothian
Evaluation of a short cist discovered during construction works revealed five inhumations and a cremation. The burial group consisted of a minimum of five children and an adult with a misshapen skull. Four of the burials have been dated to the Early Bronze Age. The burials were accompanied by a piece of flint debitage and a retouched tool. The cist has been placed in a substantial pit an constructed in such a way that it could be reopened. It is …
Accommodation, Integration, Cultural Pluralism, and Assimilation: Their Place in Equilibrium Theories of Society
Mexico and the Spanish Republicans
Journal Article Mexico and the Spanish Republicans Get access Mexico and the Spanish Republicans. By Lois Elwyn Smith. Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press; London, Cambridge University Press, 1955. vi+152 pp. Tables. Bibliog. Index. (University of California Publications in Political Science, Vol. 4, No. 2.) 91⁄4′′×6′′. $1.75. T. Ifor Rees T. Ifor Rees Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Int…
Developmental diseases-an introduction to the neurological human (in motion): Developmental diseases
Plasticity has conceptually guided much research on the adult human brain since the late 1990s. The emergence of this idea has catapulted the neurosciences beyond the synaptic, chemical conception of the brain, its diseases, and its humans that dominated the second half of the 20th century. I explore the figure of what I call the "neurological human" to bring such mutations of the neuroscientific order of knowledge into a sharp analytical focus. …
On the challenge – and the beauty – of (contemporary) anthropological inquiry: A response to Edward Dutton
Mexico and the Spanish Republicans
Journal Article Mexico and the Spanish Republicans Get access Mexico and the Spanish Republicans. By Lois Elwyn Smith. Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press; London, Cambridge University Press, 1955. vi+152 pp. Tables. Bibliog. Index. (University of California Publications in Political Science, Vol. 4, No. 2.) 91⁄4′′×6′′. $1.75. T. Ifor Rees T. Ifor Rees Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Int…
Accommodation, Integration, Cultural Pluralism, and Assimilation: Their Place in Equilibrium Theories of Society
An Early Bronze Age multiple burial cist from Mill Road Industrial Estate, Linlithgow, West Lothian
Evaluation of a short cist discovered during construction works revealed five inhumations and a cremation. The burial group consisted of a minimum of five children and an adult with a misshapen skull. Four of the burials have been dated to the Early Bronze Age. The burials were accompanied by a piece of flint debitage and a retouched tool. The cist has been placed in a substantial pit an constructed in such a way that it could be reopened. It is …
On the challenge – and the beauty – of (contemporary) anthropological inquiry: A response to Edward Dutton
Franco and the Axis Stigma
Journal Article Franco and the Axis Stigma Get access Franco and the Axis Stigma, by David Wingeate Pike (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; pp. xv + 220. £45). Tim Rees Tim Rees University of Exeter [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 513, April 2010, Pages 493–495, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceq024 Published: 01 April 2010
Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas by Stefan Helmreich
Being neurologically human today: Life and science and adult cerebral plasticity (an ethical analysis)
Throughout the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain is fully developed, organized in fixed and immutable function-specific neural circuits. Since the discovery of the profound plasticity of the human brain in the late 1990s, this belief has been thoroughly undermined. In this article, combining ethnographic and historical research, I develop an "ethical analysis" to show that (and in what concrete sense) the emergence of a…
To open up new spaces of thought: Anthropology BSC (beyond society and culture)
As if “theory” is the only form of thinking, and “social theory” the only form of critique: Thoughts on an anthropology BST (beyond society and theory)
Humanity/Plan; or, On the "Stateless" Today (Also Being an Anthropology of Global Health)
My fieldwork among HIV vaccine researchers, activists, and funders has led me to suggest that humanity-when it was first conceived of in the late eighteenth century-emerged as a plan, a plan for how to establish a future anticipated in the present. The powerful implication of this fieldwork-based suggestion is that what humanity is-or if it is at all-depends on the available humanity plans. I argue in this essay that we are currently seeing the e…
Developmental diseases-an introduction to the neurological human (in motion): Developmental diseases
Plasticity has conceptually guided much research on the adult human brain since the late 1990s. The emergence of this idea has catapulted the neurosciences beyond the synaptic, chemical conception of the brain, its diseases, and its humans that dominated the second half of the 20th century. I explore the figure of what I call the "neurological human" to bring such mutations of the neuroscientific order of knowledge into a sharp analytical focus. …
Metrics: What Counts in Global Health ed. by Vincanne Adams
Reviewed by: Metrics: What Counts in Global Health ed. by Vincanne Adams Tobias Rees Vincanne Adams, ed. Metrics: What Counts in Global Health. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. 258 pp. Ill. $24.95 (978-0-8223-7448-0). Most scholars agree that the shift from international health (IH) to global health (GH) marks a rupture in the history of world health. A prominent feature of this rupture has been the shift from the twentieth-century comm…
After Ethnos
For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others—of how social structures secretly organized the living-together of a given society, of how a people had endowed the world surrounding them with cultural meaning. While the poetics and politics of anthropology have changed dramatically over the course of a century, the basic equati…
Plastic Reason, Part One
Plastic Reason, Part Two
After the Human
Previous articleNext article FreeBook Symposiumafter the humanTobias ReesTobias ReesNew School of Social Research Search for more articles by this author New School of Social ResearchPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThere is a line by Rilke-the poet-in which he notes:"Alles/ist nicht es selbst.""Everything/is not itself."As if it…
What if
what if ... . . .what if the equation of anthropology, study of things human, with ethnography, the study and description of an ethnos, were a recent event?And what if one set out to undo this equation?If one were to cut loose the former from the latter?Actually, what if one were to not only cut loose -liberate -anthropology from ethnos/ethnography/ethnology but also from "the human" tout court -from the in its aspirations time and place independ…
On anthropology
Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary
Non-Human Words: On GPT-3 as a Philosophical Laboratory
In this essay, I investigate the effect of OpenAI's GPT-3 on the modern concept of the human (as alone capable of reason and language) and of machines (as devoid of reason and language). I show how GPT-3 and other transformer-based language models give rise to a new, structuralist concept of language, implicit in which is a new understanding of human and machine that unfolds far beyond the reach of the categories we have inherited from the past. …
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