James D Faubion
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 88478 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James D Faubion |
| PRENOMES | James D |
| SOBRENOME | Faubion |
| ASSINATURA | FAUBION J D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0847-3008 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 382 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Part One. Theoretical Frameworks
Fabulous
In "Governing the Future," Limor Samimian-Darash does much to illuminate scenarism and the divergence between the simulations and the scenarios that constitute the chief apparatuses of anticipatory governance. She renders both of them fabulations, drawing the concept as well as the divergence between simulations and scenarios from the epistemological and ontological precedents that Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze have set. Her renderings are com…
Dialogue IV
Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary
On parabiopolitical reason
Our current ecumene is governmentalistically plural. The biopolitical technology of the regulation of one or another bounded population remains active among many other such technologies. The mode of veridiction proper to biopolitics is actuarial; it has a proper epistemology. In these two respects, it stands beside and apart from the mode of veridiction proper to a parabiopolitics, which is scenaristic and grounded in a sophiology. I extract the …
On the character of character
Any revival of the anthropology of character (or its companion concept, ‘personality’) should avoid five chief faults of what has come before. First, it must be more cautious than many examples of the anthropology of character past in taking for granted that character can be generalised to the level of the ‘national’. Second, it should not fall back on a general psychology – whether of temperament or of the strategic actor. Third, it should take …
On Misfitness
‘Misfits’ are proof positive that the anthropological chestnut of ‘the psychic unity of mankind’ glosses over the actual psychic disunity of the anthropic. The proof militates against rendering misfitness merely as a social construction even as it militates in favour of rendering it as a ‘polythetic class’, the unity of which is not based in the common features of all tokens of a given type but instead in their ‘family resemblance’. Members of th…
Circling Back
proclaimed that our mission was to create circles, not pyramids (Boyer, Faubion, and Howe 2015).Back then, Donald Trump was still only the stuff of reality TV and tabloid journalism.Our city of Houston was not yet infamous for new rainfall measurement codes on weather maps, before a slow hurricane named Harvey dumped four feet of rain across too much asphalt and sprawl.But since beginning our work with the journal, we've also seen a great resurge…
The Ethics of Fieldwork as an Ethics of Connectivity, or The Good Anthropologist (Isn’t What She Used to Be)
Theory Can Be More Than It Used to Be
Impulse to Act
Sound + Vision
Are we satisfied with the conventional media for anthropological research and publication?The question is obviously not a new one.Even before anthropological research and scholarship had consolidated its modern standards of fieldwork, theory, and ethnography in the first decades of the twentieth century, anthropological writing was already part of an ecology of recordings and representations of other ways of being human that ranged from colonial …
On the anthropology of the contemporary
Between 2007 and 2014, on his own and in association with Gaymon Bennett and Anthony Stavrianakis, Paul Rabinow has been devoted to the development of an "anthropology of the contemporary." The project is widely recognized as being original, stimulating, and provocative, within and outside of the disciplinary corridors of anthropology. Only spotty attention has been paid, however, to the overarching integrity of the complex spiral of figuration a…
Anthropology and History
Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be
They have assembled a distinguished group of scholars to diagnose the state of the theory-ethnography divide in anthropology today and to explore alternative modes of analytical and pedagogical practice.Continuing the methodological insights provided in Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be, the contributors to this volume find that now is an optimal time to reflect on the status of theory in relation to ethnographic research in anthropology and ki…
Anthropologies of ethics
Comment on LAIDLAW, James. 2014. The subject of virtue: An anthropology of ethics and freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
The subject that is not one
Any anthropological approach to ethics that gives a central place to subjects and the positions they might occupy is obliged sooner or later to address an apparent paradox, instances of which are widespread. They occur in those many ethical systems that valorize a condition that can hardly be characterized without equivocation: the subject that is not one. We commonly think of such a (non-)subject as a mystic. A useful starting point in coming to…
Foucault and the Genealogy of Ethics
This chapter contains sections titled: Toward Ethics Toward Athens The Grounds and Parameters of the Ethical Domain The Care of the Self Parrhesia and the Governance of Others CODA: A Genealogy of the Ethics of the Future References
An Anthropology of Ethics
Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is the most productive point of departure in conceptualizing its distinctive features. He further argues that Foucault's framework is in need of s…
Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be
Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training of ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; this volume engages and takes its point of departure in the experiences of ethnographer…
Dangerous Citizens
Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary
Ethics Subjectivity and Truth ; the Essential Works of Michael Foucault, 1954-1984
Foucault now
Aesthetics, method, and epistemology
Aesthetics is the second in a three-volume, definitive collection of Michel Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars. It focuses primarily upon the philosophy, literature and other works of the imagination which have informed Foucault's particular engagement with ethics and power and includes Foucault's arresting commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Roussel and Boulez. 'A magnificent, essential compendium, in the ab…
Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be
Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training of ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; this volume engages and takes its point of departure in the experiences of ethnographer…
Toward an Anthropology of Ethics
Research Article| May 01 2001 Toward an Anthropology of Ethics: Foucault and the Pedagogies of Autopoiesis James D. Faubion James D. Faubion Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2001) 74 (1): 83-104. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2001.74.1.83 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permis…
Modern Greek Lessons
Classical Greece
1. Introduction Ian Morris Part I. History: 2. Archaeologies of Greece Ian Morris Part II. Artefacts and Objects: 3. Protoattic pottery: a contextual approach James Whitley 4. The riddle of the sphinx Herbert Hoffmann 5. Looking on - Greek style. Does the sculpted girl speak to women too? Robin Osborne Part III. Aretefacts as Traded Objects: 6. Pots Positivism and long-distance trade David Gill 7. Athens, Etruria and Heuneburg: mutual misconcepti…
Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be
They have assembled a distinguished group of scholars to diagnose the state of the theory-ethnography divide in anthropology today and to explore alternative modes of analytical and pedagogical practice.Continuing the methodological insights provided in Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be, the contributors to this volume find that now is an optimal time to reflect on the status of theory in relation to ethnographic research in anthropology and ki…
History in Anthropology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The subject that is not one
Any anthropological approach to ethics that gives a central place to subjects and the positions they might occupy is obliged sooner or later to address an apparent paradox, instances of which are widespread. They occur in those many ethical systems that valorize a condition that can hardly be characterized without equivocation: the subject that is not one. We commonly think of such a (non-)subject as a mystic. A useful starting point in coming to…
Anthropologies of ethics
Comment on LAIDLAW, James. 2014. The subject of virtue: An anthropology of ethics and freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Possible Modernities
Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean
Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean: The Wedding as Symbolic Struggle. Vassos Argyrou. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 210 pp
On parabiopolitical reason
Our current ecumene is governmentalistically plural. The biopolitical technology of the regulation of one or another bounded population remains active among many other such technologies. The mode of veridiction proper to biopolitics is actuarial; it has a proper epistemology. In these two respects, it stands beside and apart from the mode of veridiction proper to a parabiopolitics, which is scenaristic and grounded in a sophiology. I extract the …
Sound + Vision
Are we satisfied with the conventional media for anthropological research and publication?The question is obviously not a new one.Even before anthropological research and scholarship had consolidated its modern standards of fieldwork, theory, and ethnography in the first decades of the twentieth century, anthropological writing was already part of an ecology of recordings and representations of other ways of being human that ranged from colonial …
On the anthropology of the contemporary
Between 2007 and 2014, on his own and in association with Gaymon Bennett and Anthony Stavrianakis, Paul Rabinow has been devoted to the development of an "anthropology of the contemporary." The project is widely recognized as being original, stimulating, and provocative, within and outside of the disciplinary corridors of anthropology. Only spotty attention has been paid, however, to the overarching integrity of the complex spiral of figuration a…
Religion, Violence and the Vitalistic Economy
In early January 2002, Pope John Paul II convened a synod at the Vatican that included leading clerics of some twelve faiths, Islam, Judaism and Zoroastrianism among them. At the conclusion of the synod, the Pope issued a proclamation that apparently had the unanimous support of his guests. Perhaps the most notable and timely of its clauses was one declaring that "whoever uses religion to foment violence contradicts religion's deepest and truest …
Sumptuary Kinship
The essay pursues three ends. Two are theoretical. The first of these seeks to clarify and elaborate the consequences of approaching kinship as a distinctive system of subjectivation that yields an equally distinctive ethical domain. The second pursues the characterization of such a system as autopoietic or self-producing. The third end is diagnostic. It seeks to illuminate the modulations of the autopoetic economy of kinship in a global market t…
Possible Modernities
History in Anthropology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Doesn't It Make You Wonder
Modern Greek Lessons
The Monument
The Making of Terrorism . Michel Wieviorka (trans, by David Gordon White)
Modern Greek Lessons
Through a blend of lively detail and elegant narration, James Faubion immerses us in the cosmopolitan intellectual life of Athens, a centerless city of multiplicities and fragmentations, a city on the "margins of Europe" recovering from the repressive rule of a military junta. Drawing inspiration from Athens and its cultural elite, Faubion explores the meaning of modernity, finding it not in the singular character of "Western civilization" but in…
Policing Athens. Social control in the Attic lawsuits, 420–320 B.C.
Policing Athens. Social control in the Attic lawsuits, 420–320 B.C.
Modern Greek Lessons
Classical Greece
1. Introduction Ian Morris Part I. History: 2. Archaeologies of Greece Ian Morris Part II. Artefacts and Objects: 3. Protoattic pottery: a contextual approach James Whitley 4. The riddle of the sphinx Herbert Hoffmann 5. Looking on - Greek style. Does the sculpted girl speak to women too? Robin Osborne Part III. Aretefacts as Traded Objects: 6. Pots Positivism and long-distance trade David Gill 7. Athens, Etruria and Heuneburg: mutual misconcepti…
The Ethnography of Reading
The Ethnography of Reading. JONATHAN BOYARIN, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. viii + 285 pp
Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean
Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean: The Wedding as Symbolic Struggle. Vassos Argyrou. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 210 pp
Portrait of a Greek Imagination
Portrait of. Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis. Michael Herzfeld. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 333 pp
Hieros Gamos
Hieros Gamos: Typology and the Fate of Passion James D. Faubion Are we simply who we choose to be? We know well enough the poles between which answers to this question have tended to oscillate for at least the past century. Determinists of various stripes—biological, psychological, sociological—have insisted that we are not. Decisionists (of whom Sartre, in his more stridently existentialist moments, still occupies the extreme) have insisted that…
Currents of Cultural Fieldwork
Ethics of Kinship
What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasive. Kinship systems can contribute to our enslavement, but more often they permit, channel, and facilitate our relations with others and our further fashioning of ourselves—as kin but also as subjects of other kinds. When they do, they are among the matrices of our lives as ethical beings. Each cont…
Power. Volume 3 of Essential Works of Foucault
Toward an Anthropology of Ethics
Research Article| May 01 2001 Toward an Anthropology of Ethics: Foucault and the Pedagogies of Autopoiesis James D. Faubion James D. Faubion Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2001) 74 (1): 83-104. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2001.74.1.83 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permis…
Religion, Violence and the Vitalistic Economy
In early January 2002, Pope John Paul II convened a synod at the Vatican that included leading clerics of some twelve faiths, Islam, Judaism and Zoroastrianism among them. At the conclusion of the synod, the Pope issued a proclamation that apparently had the unanimous support of his guests. Perhaps the most notable and timely of its clauses was one declaring that "whoever uses religion to foment violence contradicts religion's deepest and truest …
Essential works of Foucault, 1954 - 1984
Sumptuary Kinship
The essay pursues three ends. Two are theoretical. The first of these seeks to clarify and elaborate the consequences of approaching kinship as a distinctive system of subjectivation that yields an equally distinctive ethical domain. The second pursues the characterization of such a system as autopoietic or self-producing. The third end is diagnostic. It seeks to illuminate the modulations of the autopoetic economy of kinship in a global market t…
Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary
An Anthropology of Ethics
Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is the most productive point of departure in conceptualizing its distinctive features. He further argues that Foucault's framework is in need of s…
Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be
Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training of ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; this volume engages and takes its point of departure in the experiences of ethnographer…
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