The final loop for Thursday begins! @afleisch_anthro here, going to livetweet "World Without Clouds: An Anthropological Experiment" below!
https://twitter.com/culanth/status/1258304309525086208
Elizabeth Chin's keynote is hilarious! Opens with a parody of Zoom teaching and meetings and lief in isolation! 😆
We've got one yoga-obsessed person, someone sewing masks, who can't mute their sewing machine and themselves, one morose person still in bed and a supportive but clueless facilitator type talking productivity! I (@afleisch_anthro) am losing it over here hahahaha
Now on to "World Without Clouds!" It's an experiment in collaborative storytelling by @JulianneYip, @pharmanthro, @anthrobite, @zooanthrosmia and Steven Gonzalez about a world without clouds!
Narrative overlaid with news clips from all over the world, this is serious work of fiction and art! I've got chills! #Distribute2020
In 2050 Massachusetts, a nephohistorian(!) uses an ontology machine(!!) to communicate with clouds(!!!) to figure out how to save them!
'We need to ask them [the clouds] "what can we humans do to help save you?"'
A cloud-centered approach, but how can we even understand them in their mutability?
#Distribute2020
A cloud-centered approach, but how can we even understand them in their mutability?
#Distribute2020
Parallels between what happened to sea ice (it melted because of global warming by this fictional 2050!) and what is happening to the clouds going extinct...you don't say?! #ClimateChange #OntologyMachine
A video call from the Brazilian nefologist (cloud scientist): Indigenous people there telling them they could already communicate with clouds before!
"Even if we could understand clouds, would people even listen to what they have to say?" #Distribute2020
And now there's an anthronephologist?! Amazing. Anthro-cloud communication!
Great and smooth incorporation of panelists' real-world anthropological expertise on climate change and sea ice, Madagascar clouds and lightening wielding, Sanskrit poems, Brazilian Indigenous shamanism, etc.!
"There is more to them, and less to them, than we ever imagined..." #SaveTheClouds #OntologyMachine
Now off to the 3rd loop of discussion the Virtual Hallway on Zoom with @plantstudies!
Now off to the 3rd loop of discussion the Virtual Hallway on Zoom with @plantstudies!
In the discussion session in the Virtual Hallway, participants reflect on inspirations for the panel and story
In the Zoom Hallway, @schnur_thing (I think!) asks via the chat about the scientific-ness of the film's imaginative science and panelists' thoughts on this, being the STS-y folks that they are!
@pharmanthro: The urge to scientifically grasp the animate has changed throughout time
@JulianneYip learned from her real-life sea ice scientist interlocutors to try to bring their sensibilities into the film and screenplay
@JulianneYip learned from her real-life sea ice scientist interlocutors to try to bring their sensibilities into the film and screenplay
@arjshankar asks panelists to connect their film to Elizabeth Chin's keynote film.
@zooanthrosmia: w/ regard to productivity in isolation, etc. "It's important to ask what refusals are possible to us, in the same way that the clouds refuse our domesticity, so to speak."
@zooanthrosmia: w/ regard to productivity in isolation, etc. "It's important to ask what refusals are possible to us, in the same way that the clouds refuse our domesticity, so to speak."
@JulianneYip shouts out her Dungeons and Dragons group (hey, I, @afleisch_anthro, am part of that crew! 🙃) and DnD's collaborative storytelling + character creation. This takes trust, and @anthrobite adds, letting the tension and disagreements be part of the script.
Whoops, the rest of this thread can be found here!
https://twitter.com/culanth/status/1258430656482283521?s=21https://t.co/4UAn7GjLHp
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