Paul Rabinow: Marking Time. On the Anthropology of the Contemporary (2007)

In Marking Time, Paul Rabinow presents his most recent reflections on the anthropology of the contemporary. Drawing richly on the work of Michel Foucault, John Dewey, Niklas Luhmann, and, most interestingly, German painter Gerhard Richter, Rabinow offers a set of conceptual tools for scholars examining cutting-edge practices in the life sciences, security, new media and art practices, and other emergent phenomena. Taking up topics that include bioethics, anger and competition among molecular biologists, the lessons of the Drosophilagenome, the nature of ethnographic observation in radically new settings, and the moral landscape shared by scientists and anthropologists, Rabinow shows how anthropology remains relevant to contemporary debates. By turning abstract philosophical problems into real-world explorations and offering original insights, Marking Time is a landmark contribution to the continuing re-invention of anthropology and the human sciences.

Publisher Princeton University Press, 2007
ISBN 0691133638, 9780691133638
149 pages

Keywords and phrases
Gerhard Richter, Thucydides, anthropologist, Bauhaus, Drosophila, Craig Venter, Luhmann, thumos, synthetic biology, Paul Klee, John Sulston, Michel Foucault, Max Weber, Gilles Deleuze, Christopher Kelty, Human Genome Project, akrasia, Celera Genomics, Francis Collins, proteome

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