But beautiful …
But beautiful … Go to Source
We are unhousing people and so are obliged to rehouse them: The moral economy of squatting
We are unhousing people and so are obliged to rehouse them: The moral economy of squatting Go to Source
Ethics and the spacetime discontinuum
Ethics and the spacetime discontinuum Go to Source
Empathy, solidarity, and the work of law and humanitarianism
Empathy, solidarity, and the work of law and humanitarianism Go to Source
Sentiment and pragmatics in Teheran
Sentiment and pragmatics in Teheran Go to Source
Forgiveness as a technology of the state
Forgiveness as a technology of the state Go to Source
Between justice and goodness
Between justice and goodness Go to Source
Everyday forgiveness: The practice and politics of mercy
Everyday forgiveness: The practice and politics of mercy Go to Source
Towards a collaborative ethos
Towards a collaborative ethos Collaboration is a key thread in the wide-ranging experimental work of Paul Rabinow. This experimental work of giving form to a collaborative ethics of anthropology can…
Adjacency and secession
Adjacency and secession What matters is not what we know but how we learn. This principle of inquiry shapes Paul Rabinow’s life work. It is also an ethics, an aspiration.…
Concept-work: In its passions and throes
Concept-work: In its passions and throes This short essay is a brief account of my encounters with Paul Rabinow over some thirty years, forming a close relationship although we were…
Law, society, and the anthropology of noncontemporaneous contemporary
Law, society, and the anthropology of noncontemporaneous contemporary Go to Source
The work of uncertainty: Relational aesthetics in contemporary Iran
The work of uncertainty: Relational aesthetics in contemporary Iran Go to Source
‘Team ethnography visual maps’: Methods for identifying the ethnographic object in multiple sites of fieldwork
‘Team ethnography visual maps’: Methods for identifying the ethnographic object in multiple sites of fieldwork Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Team ethnography is becoming more popular in research. However, there is…
Liberate yourself by examining and analyzing
Liberate yourself by examining and analyzing This essay explores touchstones in the thought and teaching of Paul Rabinow, connecting his work on biosociality and modernizing practices to deeper commitments. The…
Acting counter to our time
Acting counter to our time This essay poses the question of the timeliness of anthropological knowledge. Paul Rabinow’s writings suggest that anthropological research has a particular relationship to the demands…
The song of power: A fugue of dystopia and racial regeneration
The song of power: A fugue of dystopia and racial regeneration In this paper I take the form of the fugue in music to query a contemporary dynamic. It is…
If only there was a Department of Fieldwork in Philosophy
If only there was a Department of Fieldwork in Philosophy Fieldwork in philosophy amounts to a second-order philosophical anthropology. It examines contemporary forms of the human by attending to lower-level…
The future
The future In the 1990s and early 2000s, Rabinow turned to the study of emergent assemblages, which are rooted in the recent past and possess an uncertain future. The turn…
Darwin’s hug: Ideologies of gesture in the science of human exceptionalism
Darwin’s hug: Ideologies of gesture in the science of human exceptionalism This article reviews accounts of “hugging” across evolutionary paradigms to expose how understandings of gesture are shaped by scientific…