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Top of the heap: Helen Keane by Ekaterina Anderson
For this installment of “Top of the heap,” we spoke to Helen Keane, senior lecturer in sociology and gender studies at the Australian National University, who recommended a number of books and...
View ArticleOn gloves, rubber and the spatio-temporal logics of global health by Uli Beisel
On the 5th of September, 2014, the blog Konakry Express recounted a report from Mme Fatou Baldé Yansané that there are severe shortages of gloves in health facilities in Guinea. Mme Baldé Yansané...
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Image as Method: Conversations on Anthropology through the Image by Andrés...
What follows is a series of conversations conducted after the recent Image as Method symposium, which took place on May 4th and 5th, 2015, at Columbia University’s Heyman Center for the Humanities,...
View ArticleIntroduction: “Translating Vitalities: Spacecraft(ing)” by Judith Farquhar
Medical practice treats the body as an active field. Growth, pathology, healing, immune response, digestion, atrophy, arousal, pain, panic – none of these organic processes is stable, fixed, or indeed...
View ArticleSpacecraft(ing) by Vincent Duclos
“Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun?” cries Nietzsche’s madman in a famous parable of The Gay Science. “Are we not...
View ArticleThe Great Wall as Space-craft by Judith Farquhar
The Great Wall of China is not the barrier to barbarians it is sometimes thought to be. These days, it does not seem to bound anything [1], in and of itself. Did it ever? The wall is not an iron...
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The Boundary That Holds Its Own Narrative by Clare Twomey
We built a sculpture to physically and visually discuss boundary and immunity. As a conscious act of investigation for two days we instigated a physical boundary. The sculpture was built on a stairway,...
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Dust by Nick Caverly
The building pictured below sat near Mack Avenue on Detroit’s far east side and, according to the municipal government, was an environmental hazard. Following years of complaints from area residents...
View ArticleThe metropolis and mental life in the age of COVID-19: Delaying descent into...
The COVID city: Class, physical isolation, and virtual connection At the time of writing this we are all experiencing what the classical sociologist Émile Durkheim would call a “social fact” —...
View ArticleStepping into the hospital side room: a place for death in England by Erica...
I hovered in the doorway as the palliative care nurse who I was shadowing that day indicated I should. She entered the darkened side room to check on a male patient. I could barely make out his shape...
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