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Theorizing the Contemporary

Speculative Anthropologies

By Ryan B. Anderson, Emma Louise Backe, Taylor Nelms, Elizabeth Reddy, and Jeremy Trombley

December 18, 2018

At the intersection of speculative fiction and anthropology, we find a sense of epistemological humility about the kind of worlds we could or should inhabit. ... More

Theorizing the Contemporary

Introduction: Speculative Anthropologies

By Ryan B. Anderson, Emma Louise Backe, Taylor Nelms, Elizabeth Reddy, and Jeremy Trombley

December 18, 2018

Anthropology is suspended in teleologies we ourselves have spun. Our versions of life now are inescapably inflected by how we think life is going to be. —Sam... More

Theorizing the Contemporary

Fieldnotes from the Twilight Zone

By Patricia Markert and Jeremy Trombley

December 18, 2018

It is 1959. A city man, suit-clad and impatient, returns to his hometown after a twenty-five-year absence. He arrives to find his eleven-year-old self carving... More

Theorizing the Contemporary

Models

By Jeremy Trombley

September 30, 2016

In the Jorge Luis Borges fable “On Exactitude in Science,” an empire’s cartographers construct a map so detailed that it covers the entire territory. Yet the ma... More