#anthropology

What do epidemiologists do? Investigating a controversial symptomatology in Colombia

From May 2014 onwards the community of El Carmen de Bolivar, a municipality on the Caribbean Coast of Colombia, was hit by a mysterious outbreak with a very specific target: female teenagers. The symptoms, that from their first manifestation affected a growing numbers of girls, were general weakness, fainting, headaches, tachycardia, numbness in the extremities, ... What do epidemiologists do? Investigating a controversial symptomatology in Colombia

Maurizia Mezza

The Self At Your Wrist – 3/3

(…continues from the previous entry) THE ROLE OF DESIGN IN A PERIOD OF IDENTITY CRISIS. “Who is responsible? Here we have many examples of brilliant innovations, but the issue of responsibility is key and must be addressed. Who is going to be responsible for the future?” – asked Piero Bassetti at the closing of Design ... The Self At Your Wrist – 3/3

Fabio Besti

The Self At Your Wrist – 2/3

(…continues from the previous entry). TECHNOLOGY VS HUMANS: SELF-IDENTITY AND SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IN A ‘QUANTIFIED’ FUTURE. Certainly, technology should aim at increasing human abilities. Same as the first tools in the prehistory helped man physical capacity, the new technologies of today offer the opportunity of increasing our physical and mental capabilities. All of this seems obvious ... The Self At Your Wrist – 2/3

Fabio Besti

The Self At Your Wrist – 1/3

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES, SELF-PERCEPTION AND IDENTITY AT THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW QUANTIFIED EXISTENCE. Here the work on the illustration. “We have one more thing to cover…” Screaming voices and enthusiast applauses are filling Flint Center for the Performing Arts auditorium in Cupertino, California. “I’m so excited and so proud to share with you this morning ... The Self At Your Wrist – 1/3

Fabio Besti

Towards responsible innovation

Contexts and identities of research in Europe Contemporary society is nowadays defined as “knowledge society” tout court. European Union itself, during the European Council held in Lisbon in 2000, recognized the foundational role of knowledge as the basis and pillar for the economic growth. Knowledge, therefore, stands as the unquestioned protagonist around whom not only ... Towards responsible innovation

Eloisa Cianci

Beyond Alternative Food Networks, a book review

Long time Bassetti Foundation collaborator Cristina Grasseni recently published her latest book. Beyond Alternative Food Networks is described by MIT Professor Heather Paxson as “Much more than a book about alternative ways of sourcing and consuming food…. it challenges the rationalist mythology at the heart of capitalism and reveals the affective relations and contingent practices ... Beyond Alternative Food Networks, a book review

Cristina Grasseni
Redazione FGB

Uncertainty and disquiet

Discussion of the panel W098 of the EASA Conference 2012. Nanterre University, France, 10/07/2012 – 13/07/2012. The call for papers “Who is Responsible” has invited ethnographic reflections on the diverse meanings and use of a term, “responsibility” which “has become such a conspicuous terms in contemporary thought styles”, to highlight its salience in contemporary culture ... Uncertainty and disquiet

Cristina Grasseni

Vincent Lepinay on Mapping Controversies at MIT

Event: interview. Title: Vincent Lepinay on Mapping Controversies at MIT Date: 2012 01 30 Time: 8 min. Place: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Language: English. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/35529694 Post: Vincent Lepinay on Mapping Controversies at MIT. This is an interview to Prof. Vincent Lepinay carried out by Jonathan Hankins about the MIT Mapping ... Vincent Lepinay on Mapping Controversies at MIT

Cristina Grasseni
Jonathan Hankins
Vincent Lepinay

About the Anthropology of globalization (2)

Il saggio di Monica Lindh de Montoya “Il mercato come specchio o modello. Come i commercianti riconfigurano le transazioni economiche e sociali in un’economia rurale”, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1999, indaga il cambiamento culturale avvenuto in una comunità agricola venezuelana del Bailadores innesescato dalla produzione per il mercato nazionale di ortaggi, in particolare ... About the Anthropology of globalization (2)

Guido Carlotto

About the Anthropology of globalization

Questo blog si prefigge, per quanto non sistematicamente, di offrire spunti di riflessione e ricerca sulle reciproche relazioni tra pratica e riflessione antropologica e pratica e riflessione sull’innovazione, e in particolare sul problema della responsabilità dell’innovazione. Si tratta di una interconnessione non ovvia, scarsamente tematizzata. Tuttavia è possibile mappare alcuni contributi, anche e soprattutto ai ... About the Anthropology of globalization

Cristina Grasseni
Valentina Porcellana

Of flies and forests: putting laboratory work in its social context (part 2)

…Prosegue dal precedente post… CG That’s a very interesting context because usually, when we think about public understanding of science or media exposure of a scientific discovery, it’s always thought of as something monolithic, and the term of comparison is by a kind of implicit definition western society. Very rarely one takes into consideration that ... Of flies and forests: putting laboratory work in its social context (part 2)

Of flies and forests: putting laboratory work in its social context (part 1)

In questa intervista a Sophie Houdart realizzata al Centre Culturel International di Cerisy-La-Salle (Francia, luglio 2006), durante il seminario “L’anthropologie historique de la raison scientifique” diretto da Philippe Descola e Bruno Latour, abbiamo discusso dei molti collegamenti tra l’etnografia della scienza e l’innovazione responsabile. Il lavoro di Sophie Houdart mette in luce molte importanti categorie, ... Of flies and forests: putting laboratory work in its social context (part 1)