Dear colleagues,
I am delighted to invite you to the fourth session of the Unit of Play’s Pluralistic Variations lecture series, with Professor Martin Holbraad (UCL), who will be discussing his work on the ontological turn in anthropology. The event is free, and everyone is welcome! Please do come and feel free to circulate this to anyone interested!
9th February 2017 | 4.30-6.30pm | Deptford Town Hall (DTH) 109 | Goldsmiths, University of London
Ontological Turnings: Conceptualization and Reflexivity in Anthropological Thinking
Prof. Martin Holbraad (University College London)
Discussant: Prof Sanjay Seth (Politics)
The paper seeks to clarify some of the basic premises of the so-called ‘ontological turn’ in contemporary anthropology. Based on a couple of ethnographically-driven examples that demonstrate the salient characteristics of this manner of building arguments in anthropology, the paper displays the fundamentally methodological character of the ontological turn, arguing that it most basically consists in taking to the extreme two activities that have always been part of the intellectual project of anthropology, namely conceptualization and reflexivity.
Martin Holbraad is Professor of Social Anthropology at University College London. He is author of Truth in Motion: The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination (2012), The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition (with M. Pedersen) and co-editor of Thinking Through Things: Theorizing Artefacts Ethnographically (2007).
Dr. Martin Savransky
Lecturer | Department of Sociology
Director, Unit of Play (UoP)
Goldsmiths, University of London
London SE14 6NW
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New in Hardback: T<https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventure-Relevance-Ethics-Social-Inquiry/dp/1137571454/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467049493&sr=8-1&keywords=the+adventure+of+relevance>he Adventure of Relevance<https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventure-Relevance-Ethics-Social-Inquiry/dp/1137571454/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467049493&sr=8-1&keywords=the+adventure+of+relevance> (Palgrave Macmillan 2016, with a foreword by Isabelle Stengers).
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