Toby Austin Locke

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What Is It?

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What Is It?

It is something ineffable and yet spoken, something unknown and yet seen, something forever absent and yet endlessly present. It is something shifting, somethin... More

An Uncertain Rush of Energy: An #AmAnth17 Panel Review

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An Uncertain Rush of Energy: An #AmAnth17 Panel Review

An Uncertain Rush of Energy: A Discussion with William Mazzarella on The Mana of Mass Society Chair: Bhrigupati Singh (Brown University)Panelists: Steven Caton ... More

Words in Worlds: An Interview with Kathleen Stewart

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Words in Worlds: An Interview with Kathleen Stewart

Andrés Romero and Toby Austin Locke: When you began your academic career, attention to affective intensities was arguably not yet as prevalent in anthropology o... More

On Affect, Aesthetics, and Mass Mediation: An Interview with William Mazzarella

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On Affect, Aesthetics, and Mass Mediation: An Interview with William Mazzarella

Andrés Romero and Toby Austin Locke: In this article, you work through a genealogy of thought on affective relations that diverges from the usual line from Baru... More

Teaching Refusal

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Teaching Refusal

The collection brings together four researchers working on the topic of refusal, which they seek to theorize as “an ethnographic, as well as political, concept.... More

The Figure of Death in The-Place-Where-the-Black-Caiman-Walks

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The Figure of Death in The-Place-Where-the-Black-Caiman-Walks

What is the figure of death with which we are presented when we are asked to behold the Black Caiman, to trace and track its form? It is no longer a figure of c... More