Writing the Implosion

Teaching the World One Thing at a Time

Bibliographic Data

ID2435501
AuthorsJoseph Dumit (0000-0002-9709-4650, University of California, Davis, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume29
Issue2
Pages344-362
Publication date2014-05-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0886-7356 • E-ISSN: 1548-1360
PublisherAmerican Anthropological Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.14506/ca29.2.09
OpenAlexW2015699697
LanguageEN
Citations received70
References cited4

This article puts a reading of Gilles Deleuze's Cinema 2 in dialogue with Donna Haraway's works and methods. Working through the former helps me unpack the process of Haraway's inquisitive "implosion" method and some of its aims better. I describe this as exploring how the world is interconnected one process and thing at a time, how these connections are vitally and politically important, and how this work is inexhaustible. Following this exegesis, I offer a series of exercises for putting this method into practice, one that I use myself and teach to graduate students and undergrads

Art · Exegesis · Implosion · Linguistics · Literature · Movie theater · Process (computing · Reading (process · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Theatre and Performance Studies

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