Peter Skafish
Biographic Data
| ID | 209576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Skafish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Skafish |
| SIGNATURE | SKAFISH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade da Califórnia (Berkeley, CA) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Equivocations of the Body and Cosmic Arts: An Experiment in Polyrealism
Are techniques of the body always of the body, and in what sense are they techniques? A response to Yuk Hui’s The Question Concerning Technology in China, this essay takes the techniques of traditional Chinese medicine and qi gong as an exemplary case in order to show how some bodies may be more cosmic than physiological and how their corresponding techniques might work not only with but right from the cosmos. To do this, it turns the ontological…
Apresentação do dossiê – Cosmopolitropicália: Diplomacia animista em São Paulo
Em meados do outono passado em São Paulo, mais de 200 estudantes e pesquisadores desafiaram o retrocesso político e econômico de uma forma particularmente audaciosa: eles se deixaram conduzir por uma famosa bruxa em uma dança ritual e canto invocatório realizados em espiral, com o intuito de regenerar a terra em que a cidade foi construída. Starhawk, uma americana ecofeminista, ativista antiglobalização e wicca, foi convidada ao lado do líder ind…
Fora do que se acredita existir: A Terra em perspectiva multidimensional
O que devem os intelectuais pensar hoje das religiões loucas, "irracionais"? E de que maneira a antropologia se faz necessária para que se alcance essa compreensão? Aborda-se tais perguntas à luz do caso de Barbara Marciniak, outrora uma popular médium ou "canal" de espíritos ligada à Nova Era, considerando o que ela concebe como extraterrestres das Plêiades. A partir de uma análise de sua concepção de pensamento, opta-se por uma "antropologia de…
The Descola Variations
Introduction: A New Pocket of Intellectual Space
This introduction to "Anthropological Philosophy: Symposium on an Unanticipated Conceptual Practice" comprises a brief history of attitudes among anthropologists toward the philosophical field of ontology, and attitudes among professional philosophers toward the kinds of alien and marginal thinking with which anthropology is concerned. After the narrative reaches what has been called the "ontological turn" in anthropology, which is generally assu…
From the Library of the Superreal
This article is an ethnographic account of the speculative thought of Jane Roberts, a spirit medium or "channel," important in New Age religion for the books that she dictated at the behest of a personality named "Seth." At first, she tried to understand her strange subjectivity in psychiatric terms, then went on to elaborate metaphysical concepts to account for it. The author argues that understanding Roberts's concepts in social historical term…
The Metaphysics of Extra-Moderns
In this conversation, Brazilian anthropologist, philosopher, and political activist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro offers an overview of his thinking, both past and present. After explaining why initially he argued that ontology should be a topic of anthropologists, he discusses his more recent conclusion that indigenous thought should be regarded instead as metaphysical. It is not that la pensée sauvage has an implicit ontology discoverable by the h…
What Should We Do with Our Brain? (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)by Catherine Malabou
Thinking Alterity, Reprise
Research Article| June 01 2008 Thinking Alterity, Reprise: An Introduction Peter Skafish Peter Skafish Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2008) 17 (1): 3–40. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.17.1.3 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Skafish; Thinking Alterity, Reprise: An Introduction. Qui Parle 1 June 2008; 17 (1): 3–40. doi: https://doi.org/1…
On the Postcolony: A Brief Response to Critics
Research Article| December 01 2005 On the Postcolony: A Brief Response to Critics Achille Mbembe Achille Mbembe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 1–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.15.2.1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Achille Mbembe; On the Postcolony: A Brief Response to Critics. Qui Parle 1 December 2005; 15 (2): 1–49. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/q…
On the Postcolony: A Brief Response to Critics
Research Article| December 01 2005 On the Postcolony: A Brief Response to Critics Achille Mbembe Achille Mbembe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 1–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.15.2.1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Achille Mbembe; On the Postcolony: A Brief Response to Critics. Qui Parle 1 December 2005; 15 (2): 1–49. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/q…
The Metaphysics of Extra-Moderns
In this conversation, Brazilian anthropologist, philosopher, and political activist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro offers an overview of his thinking, both past and present. After explaining why initially he argued that ontology should be a topic of anthropologists, he discusses his more recent conclusion that indigenous thought should be regarded instead as metaphysical. It is not that la pensée sauvage has an implicit ontology discoverable by the h…
The Descola Variations
Equivocations of the Body and Cosmic Arts: An Experiment in Polyrealism
Are techniques of the body always of the body, and in what sense are they techniques? A response to Yuk Hui’s The Question Concerning Technology in China, this essay takes the techniques of traditional Chinese medicine and qi gong as an exemplary case in order to show how some bodies may be more cosmic than physiological and how their corresponding techniques might work not only with but right from the cosmos. To do this, it turns the ontological…
Fora do que se acredita existir: A Terra em perspectiva multidimensional
O que devem os intelectuais pensar hoje das religiões loucas, "irracionais"? E de que maneira a antropologia se faz necessária para que se alcance essa compreensão? Aborda-se tais perguntas à luz do caso de Barbara Marciniak, outrora uma popular médium ou "canal" de espíritos ligada à Nova Era, considerando o que ela concebe como extraterrestres das Plêiades. A partir de uma análise de sua concepção de pensamento, opta-se por uma "antropologia de…
Introduction: A New Pocket of Intellectual Space
This introduction to "Anthropological Philosophy: Symposium on an Unanticipated Conceptual Practice" comprises a brief history of attitudes among anthropologists toward the philosophical field of ontology, and attitudes among professional philosophers toward the kinds of alien and marginal thinking with which anthropology is concerned. After the narrative reaches what has been called the "ontological turn" in anthropology, which is generally assu…
From the Library of the Superreal
This article is an ethnographic account of the speculative thought of Jane Roberts, a spirit medium or "channel," important in New Age religion for the books that she dictated at the behest of a personality named "Seth." At first, she tried to understand her strange subjectivity in psychiatric terms, then went on to elaborate metaphysical concepts to account for it. The author argues that understanding Roberts's concepts in social historical term…
On the Postcolony: A Brief Response to Critics
Research Article| December 01 2005 On the Postcolony: A Brief Response to Critics Achille Mbembe Achille Mbembe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 1–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.15.2.1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Achille Mbembe; On the Postcolony: A Brief Response to Critics. Qui Parle 1 December 2005; 15 (2): 1–49. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/q…
Thinking Alterity, Reprise
Research Article| June 01 2008 Thinking Alterity, Reprise: An Introduction Peter Skafish Peter Skafish Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2008) 17 (1): 3–40. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.17.1.3 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Skafish; Thinking Alterity, Reprise: An Introduction. Qui Parle 1 June 2008; 17 (1): 3–40. doi: https://doi.org/1…
What Should We Do with Our Brain? (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)by Catherine Malabou
The Descola Variations
Introduction: A New Pocket of Intellectual Space
This introduction to "Anthropological Philosophy: Symposium on an Unanticipated Conceptual Practice" comprises a brief history of attitudes among anthropologists toward the philosophical field of ontology, and attitudes among professional philosophers toward the kinds of alien and marginal thinking with which anthropology is concerned. After the narrative reaches what has been called the "ontological turn" in anthropology, which is generally assu…
From the Library of the Superreal
This article is an ethnographic account of the speculative thought of Jane Roberts, a spirit medium or "channel," important in New Age religion for the books that she dictated at the behest of a personality named "Seth." At first, she tried to understand her strange subjectivity in psychiatric terms, then went on to elaborate metaphysical concepts to account for it. The author argues that understanding Roberts's concepts in social historical term…
The Metaphysics of Extra-Moderns
In this conversation, Brazilian anthropologist, philosopher, and political activist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro offers an overview of his thinking, both past and present. After explaining why initially he argued that ontology should be a topic of anthropologists, he discusses his more recent conclusion that indigenous thought should be regarded instead as metaphysical. It is not that la pensée sauvage has an implicit ontology discoverable by the h…
Apresentação do dossiê – Cosmopolitropicália: Diplomacia animista em São Paulo
Em meados do outono passado em São Paulo, mais de 200 estudantes e pesquisadores desafiaram o retrocesso político e econômico de uma forma particularmente audaciosa: eles se deixaram conduzir por uma famosa bruxa em uma dança ritual e canto invocatório realizados em espiral, com o intuito de regenerar a terra em que a cidade foi construída. Starhawk, uma americana ecofeminista, ativista antiglobalização e wicca, foi convidada ao lado do líder ind…
Fora do que se acredita existir: A Terra em perspectiva multidimensional
O que devem os intelectuais pensar hoje das religiões loucas, "irracionais"? E de que maneira a antropologia se faz necessária para que se alcance essa compreensão? Aborda-se tais perguntas à luz do caso de Barbara Marciniak, outrora uma popular médium ou "canal" de espíritos ligada à Nova Era, considerando o que ela concebe como extraterrestres das Plêiades. A partir de uma análise de sua concepção de pensamento, opta-se por uma "antropologia de…
Equivocations of the Body and Cosmic Arts: An Experiment in Polyrealism
Are techniques of the body always of the body, and in what sense are they techniques? A response to Yuk Hui’s The Question Concerning Technology in China, this essay takes the techniques of traditional Chinese medicine and qi gong as an exemplary case in order to show how some bodies may be more cosmic than physiological and how their corresponding techniques might work not only with but right from the cosmos. To do this, it turns the ontological…
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