'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 Drosophila genome, 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 reinvention of anthropology and the human sciences.' (Back Cover)

Includes bibliography and index.
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Onsite

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REF.RAP5
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2008

No of pages

176

ISBN / ISSN

9780691133638

No of copies

1

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Introduction

On the Anthropology of the Contemporary

Inquiry

Elements

The Legitimacy of the Contemporary

2000: Drosophila Lessons

The Future of Human Nature

Bio-ethics: The Question Concerning Humanism

Nature

Security, Danger, Risk

Contemporary Formations

Conclusion

Adjacency

Timing

Situating: Tolerance and Benevolence

Telos: A Zone of Discomfort

Untimely Work

Observation

Bildung

Observing the Future

Responsibility to Ignorance

Observing Observers Observing

Observing First-order Observers

Chronicling Observation

Original History

Writing Things: Deictic Not Epideictic

Vehement Contemporaries

Rugged Terrain

Elements of a Contemporary Moral Landscape

Genomics as Ethical Terrain

Agon in the Genomic Terrain

Thumós: Appropriate Anger

Vehement Contemporaries

Marking Time: Gerhard Richter

Contemporary Modern

Biotechnical Forms

Richter: Double Negations

Art Critics and Others

Our Contemporary

Nature

Photography

Marking Time

Abstract Images

Remediation

Objects

Remedation

Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary
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Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary