Anthropology at the Intersection of Worlds (2021-2023)

Schedule

2021-11-03

  • Kopenawa, Davi & Bruce Albert 2013. The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman. Selections: “The Animal Ancestors” and “The Spirit of the Forest”
  • Wagner, Roy. 1977. “Scientific and Indigenous Papuan Conceptualization of the Innate: A Semiotic Critique of the Ecological Perspective”
  • Maniglier, Patrice. 2016. “Anthropological Meditations: The Discourse on Comparative Method”

2021-11-10

  • Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2015. The Relative Native Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds. Selection: “Along the Spider’s Thread: Virtuality, Actualization, and the Kinship Process in Amazonia”
  • Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2012. “Radical Dualism”
  • Wagner, Roy. 1991. “The Fractal Person”
  • Crook, Tony. 1999. “Growing Knowledge in Bolivip, Papua New Guinea”

2021-11-17

  • Goldman, Irving. 2004. Cubeo Religious Thought: Metaphysics of a Northwest Amazonian People. Selection: “Process in Creation”
  • Lenton, Tim & Andrew Watson. 2011. Revolutions that made the Earth. Selection: “Playing Gaia”
  • Penrose, Roger. 2012. “The Basic Ideas of Conformal Cyclic Cosmology”

2021-11-24

  • Introduction to Comparative Planetology, by Lukás Likavcan
  • Laudato Si, by Pope Francis
  • “Extending the Domain of Freedom, or Why Gaia is so Hard to Understand,” by Latour and Lenton

2021-12-01

  • “The Galactic Polity in Southeast Asia,” by Stanley J. Tambiah
  • “Bhakti and Henadology,” by Edward Butler
  • Cubeo Religious Thought: Metaphysics of a Northwest Amazonian People (p. 345-357), by Irving Goldman

2021-12-08

  • In the Last Humanity: The New Ecological Science (“Introduction”), by François Laruelle
  • Christo-Fiction: The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem (“Introduction”), by François Laruelle
  • “Non-Theurgy: Iamblichus and Laruelle,” by Stanimir Panayatov.

2021-12-15

  • “Is there a field for philosophy,” by Anne-Françoise Schmid
  • “Figure-ground reversal among the Barok,” by Roy Wagner
  • Selections from the Greek Magical Papyri

2021-12-22

  • “An Outside View of Ourselves as a Toy Model AGI,” by Reza Negarestani
  • “From Earth-Systems Science to the Sky-Earth System,” by Adam Louis-Klein
  • Recursivity and Contingency (Chapter 1), by Yuk Hui

2022-01-05

  • “Platforming & Perspectivism,” by Zé Antonio R. Magalhães
  • “For a Strategic Primitivism,” a dialogue between Yuk Hui & Viveiros de Castro
  • Inquiry into Modes of Existence (Chapter 8), by Bruno Latour
  • Anthropology of the Subject (Chapter 14), by Roy Wagner