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Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary

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Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary - Rabinow, Paul
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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 ...

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Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary 2007, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691133638

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