"The video is an invitation to participate in the Yolnu art of connection. It is a remix of a book, which was a remix of an exhibition, which was a remix of a series of small artworks made by remixing the photographs of our everyday lives in the mobile phones we use to connect"
"Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology is a project inspired by the gloriously cheeky and deeply meaningful audiovisual media made with and circulated by mobile phones by an extended Aboriginal family in northern Australia."
- miyarrkamedia.com/bauman_portfol…
If you're enjoying the #Distribute2020 keynote "Making Worlds Otherwise" · "Hacer mundos de otra manera" be sure to check out the Miyarrka Media website (linked above in this thread) and connect with them via their instagram account: instagram.com/miyarrka_media/
Up next, "Against Institutional Murder" · "Contra el asesinato institucional"
Dalit Camera is a YouTube channel that archives the experiences of Dalits. This film is a story told via protest video, documenting the aftermath of the death of Rohith Vemula. #Distribute2020
In the #VirtualHallway, Elizabeth Chin tells us about how she felt as though she was 'in conversation' with the Miyarrka Media keynote by sharing her screen to show images from the #Distribute2020 alongside a photo of her own ancestors.
@WilliLempert in the #VirtualHallway talking about both the Miyarrka Media keynote & the Dalit Camera keynote:
"I like to think about images and sounds as forms of care and remember that aesthetics are not separate from ethics and politics."
The Miyarrka piece refuses the idea of the digital screen as a "portal into another world" but instead highlights the virtual networks and relations that allow for those images to emerge in the first place - @anandspandian in the #Distribute2020#VirtualHallway
@anandspandian follows-up with a question for the room, "what if our own multiply mediated #anthropology moved further in this direction? What if we worked to make more present these relational networks themselves?"
Folks discussing the anthropological proclivity toward patterns & 'patterns as method'. Zeynep Gürsel draws on the concept of 'humming' from Phone & Spear to explain how the Miyarrka Media & the Distributed Multimodalities day 2 panel are coming together for her. #Distribute2020
We're off! @savannahshange begins by clarifying the difference between revolution and abolition: Revolution seeks to win control of the state and its resources, while abolition wants to quit playing and raze the stadium of settler-slaver society for good
Abolition is a messy break-up with the state, a rending; as a methodology, abolitionist anthropology is principally a genre of Black study
A (belated) James Baldwin thread from the CA archives 💐. The (W) Rap On series— loosely inspired by James Baldwin & Margaret Mead’s 1971 conversation Rap on Race— attempts to identify and confront some of the problems that their conversation embodied.
Here's the link to the 1971 conversation between Baldwin and Mead:
On Race and the Good Liberal by Atreyee Majumder who follows Baldwin’s lead in rethinking what an acceptable tone for intellectual discourse is. culanth.org/fieldsights/ra…
Here's a thread of some articles surrounding these topics from the @culanth archives! All free and open access! Any other ideas, #AnthroTwitter, #ClimateTwitter?
This 2017 article by Sarah Vaughn details the epistemic politics that shape the climate adaptation of sea defense in Guyana. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/a…
In this article from 2018, Jason Cons explores recent development projects that seek to instill resilience in populations likely to be severely impacted by climate change. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/a…
🌱🌿🌳🌀 "Becoming Sensor is about figuring out a way for settler allies to de-tune the colonial common sense that shapes how we understand the living world..."
Read on in this very exciting interview with Natasha Myers (@plantstudies) by @mgbevans!
While #anthrotwitter isn't always rosy, we have to ask: what's happening in @AmericanAnthro's Communities listserv? As anthropologists, we can examine peoples' practices and explore their broader meanings; pls add ethnographic data to this thread so we can understand these people
Setting things off is @Laurence_Ralph, who notes that for every dollar the Chicago Police Department receives, the department overseeing youth development and houselessness receives five cents, housing receives 12 cents and the Department of Health receives two cents
The country spends $100b per year on policing and $80b on prisons. The call to defund police is a call to reprioritise public resources in the name of radical transformation - @Laurence_Ralph