Paul Rabinow: 14 books
by Paul Rabinow, George E. Marcus, Tobias Rees
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
In this compact volume two of anthropology’s most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge, pedagogy, and practice. James D. Faubion joins in several exchanges to facilitate and...
Unconsolable Contemporary
Observing Gerhard Richter
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Unconsolable Contemporary Paul Rabinow continues his explorations of "a philosophic anthropology of the contemporary." Defining the contemporary as a moving ratio in which the modern becomes historical, Rabinow shows how an anthropological ethos of the contemporary can be realized by...
Anthropos Today
Reflections on Modern Equipment
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and practice within the field has certainly reflected this pattern, as shown for example by numerous fruitful ventures into the "politics and poetics"...
The Accompaniment
Assembling the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
In this culmination of his search for anthropological concepts and practices appropriate to the twenty-first century, Paul Rabinow contends that to make sense of the contemporary anthropologists must invent new forms of inquiry. He begins with an extended rumination on what he gained from two of his...
Marking Time
On the Anthropology of the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
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...
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more...
Making PCR
A Story of Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Making PCR is the fascinating, behind-the-scenes account of the invention of one of the most significant biotech discoveries in our time—the polymerase chain reaction. Transforming the practice and potential of molecular biology, PCR extends scientists' ability to identify and manipulate genetic...
Demands of the Day
On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Demands of the Day asks about the logical standards and forms that should guide ethical and experimental anthropology in the twenty-first century. Anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis do so by taking up Max Weber’s notion of the “demands of the day.” Just as the demand of the...
A Machine to Make a Future
Biotech Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
A Machine to Make a Future represents a remarkably original look at the present and possible future of biotechnology research in the wake of the mapping of the human genome. The central tenet of Celera Diagnostics--the California biotech company whose formative work during 2003 is the focus of the...
Designing Human Practices
An Experiment with Synthetic Biology
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
In 2006 anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett set out to rethink the role that human sciences play in biological research, creating the Human Practices division of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center—a facility established to create design standards for the engineering of...
Michel Foucault
Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault's work as a whole.
To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault's work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unfold a careful, analytical exposition of his...
Designs on the Contemporary
Anthropological Tests
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Designs on the Contemporary pursues the challenge of how to design and put into practice strategies for inquiring into the intersections of philosophy and anthropology. Drawing on the conceptual repertoires of Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and John Dewey, among others, Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis...
French Modern
Norms and Forms of the Social Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In this study of space and power and knowledge in France from the 1830s through the 1930s, Rabinow uses the tools of anthropology, philosophy, and cultural criticism to examine how social environment was perceived and described. Ranging from epidemiology to the layout of colonial cities, he shows...
Spaces of Danger
Culture and Power in the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of...