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Justin Pickard started reading Reckoning with Matter by Matthew L. Jones

Reckoning with Matter by Matthew L. Jones
From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to …
Justin Pickard wants to read Exploring Context in Information Behavior by Naresh Kumar Agarwal

Exploring Context in Information Behavior by Naresh Kumar Agarwal
The field of human information behavior runs the gamut of processes from the realization of a need or gap in …
Justin Pickard started reading Cybernetics for the 21st Century, Vol. 1 by Yuk Hui

Cybernetics for the 21st Century, Vol. 1 by Yuk Hui
Cybernetics for the 21st Century Vol.1 is dedicated to the epistemological reconstruction of cybernetics, consisting of a series of historical …
Justin Pickard wants to read Janky Materiality by J †Johnson

Janky Materiality by J †Johnson
Janky materiality works by not working. It is the spirit in the machine, the ghost in language, the provisional operation. …
Justin Pickard started reading Neural Networks by Lucy Suchman

Neural Networks by Lucy Suchman, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Théo LePage-Richer
A critical examination of the figure of the neural network as it mediates neuroscientific and computational discourses and technical practices. …
Justin Pickard wants to read Corsican Fragments by Matei Candea

Corsican Fragments by Matei Candea
The island of Corsica has long been a popular destination for travelers in search of the European exotic, but it …
Justin Pickard wants to read Fragments of the City by Colin McFarlane

Fragments of the City by Colin McFarlane
Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of …
Justin Pickard wants to read Herald of a Restless World by Emily Herring

Herald of a Restless World by Emily Herring
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson became the most famous philosopher on earth. Where prior thinkers sketched …
Justin Pickard wants to read Pirate Care by Tomislav Medak

Pirate Care by Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, Valeria Graziano
In many places around the world, the freedom to simply care for one another is under attack by the powerful, …
Justin Pickard started reading Anthropos Today by Paul Rabinow (In-Formation)

Anthropos Today by Paul Rabinow (In-Formation)
The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and …
Justin Pickard wants to read Anthropos Today by Paul Rabinow (In-Formation)

Anthropos Today by Paul Rabinow (In-Formation)
The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and …
In relation to the idea of keeping Trickster – as master of chaos and disorder, boundary-crosser, and culture-giver – in our ethnographies, the second strategy that I would propose is to “keep it messy”, disordered, to let there be loose ends and dissonances.
— UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge by Diana Espirito Santo (Page 153)
I approached ufology, first, as a researcher interested in paradigms of evidence. But then I began to focus on those stories about experiences that made no sense to the experiencer. I could have brushed them off; or archive them to later sort out. They represented the conceptual void, or nothingness, of fieldwork. What did not fit the data. But I was drawn like a moth to a fire.
— UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge by Diana Espirito Santo (Page 149)
the fragmentation of knowledge and its incompletion; the inability, and sometimes, even irrelevance of conceptual knowledge on a society’s cosmology. Additionally, there is often an irrelevance of the concept of cosmology itself. Order gives way to fracture and ambiguity (analytically, at least), if there ever was order in the first place. It is thus not simply the ufological “absurd” in Chile, as I have described it, that “lacks” an idea of order or principle. Many complex shamanic or religious cosmoses are also patently “lacking” it, at least from the perspective of those who live them through and through.
— UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge by Diana Espirito Santo (Page 141)