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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 15d

Earlier this year, Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Coincidentally, a few months earlier, I published an essay in which I draw an analogy between his film Taxi and ethnographic practice. (1/3)

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 15d

Specifically, I show that the captivating qualities of ethnography derive from the narrative trope of captor-turned-captive, as incomplete entrapments of the field are often used as a device for turning ethnographer and reader into entrapped. (3/3)

Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 15d

The essay highlights the role of limitations and the dual dynamics of capture and captivation in Taxi and ethnographic practice. (2/3)

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · 15d

Earlier this year, Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Coincidentally, a few months earlier, I published an essay in which I draw an analogy between his film Taxi and ethnographic practice. (1/3)

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Sep 1

Some time ago, Ana Chiritoiu and I co-edited an SI on Anthropologies of Capture, in which we proposed capture as a generative anthropological analytic. Read our Introduction here and see if you're captivated (and remember, disagreement is also a form of capture!): doi.org/10.3167/sa.2... (1/6)

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Sep 1

Lastly, what sets capture apart from notions such as network or entanglement is its recursive potential as a verb and metonym for ethnographic inquiry and representation. (6/6)

Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Sep 1

By bringing this idea to bear on ethnographic analyses of capture, we argue that capture is frequently deployed as a generic term—a catchword—that simultaneously defines the work of the generic itself as a mode of capture or containment. (5/6)

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Sep 1

The significance of the diverse socialities of capture is clarified in relation to previous works that demonstrate how capture folds over and into itself, entrapping not just the prey, but also the captors. (4/6)

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Sep 1

We argue that neither of these terms should be read as rifts in sociality but rather as continuations of the social by other means. (3/6)

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Sep 1

As we note in the Introduction, idioms of capture already pervade anthropological descriptions, analyses, and methods. We start by questioning the widespread equivalence between capture and predation. (2/6)

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Sep 1

Some time ago, Ana Chiritoiu and I co-edited an SI on Anthropologies of Capture, in which we proposed capture as a generative anthropological analytic. Read our Introduction here and see if you're captivated (and remember, disagreement is also a form of capture!): doi.org/10.3167/sa.2... (1/6)

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great to see that my article on satellite miniaturization has found a home in the latest issue of American Anthropologist ⬇️

Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · May 6

Just published: "Compression-Expansion: Miniaturization, Modularity, and Logistics Beyond Earth." Open access with @amanthro.bsky.social. (1/5)

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#AnthroSky #ethnography #outerspace #STS

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If the Cold War space race culminated in a return to Earth, at present we are experiencing a renewed interest in space. Drawing on fieldwork among people working in the space sector in Sweden, this a....

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 25

Oh and feel free to drop me a message if you can't access the article!

Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 18

I had a lot of fun writing this essay and hope you'll enjoy reading it: "Against traplessness: Disconnection and entrapment in multispecies science fiction," published with Configurations. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

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#Anthropocene #envhum #SF #STS

Project MUSE - Against Traplessness: Disconnection and Entrapment in Multispecies Science Fiction

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 26

✨️✨️✨️ Folks, we have a contract!! Stay tuned for my upcoming book on fog capture in Peru (title TBD), which will be published open access with University of California Press ✨️✨️✨️

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great to see that my article on satellite miniaturization has found a home in the latest issue of American Anthropologist ⬇️

Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · May 6

Just published: "Compression-Expansion: Miniaturization, Modularity, and Logistics Beyond Earth." Open access with @amanthro.bsky.social. (1/5)

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/aman...

#AnthroSky #ethnography #outerspace #STS

<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library

If the Cold War space race culminated in a return to Earth, at present we are experiencing a renewed interest in space. Drawing on fieldwork among people working in the space sector in Sweden, this a....

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 26

✨️✨️✨️ Folks, we have a contract!! Stay tuned for my upcoming book on fog capture in Peru (title TBD), which will be published open access with University of California Press ✨️✨️✨️

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 25

Oh and feel free to drop me a message if you can't access the article!

Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 18

I had a lot of fun writing this essay and hope you'll enjoy reading it: "Against traplessness: Disconnection and entrapment in multispecies science fiction," published with Configurations. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

🔗 doi.org/10.1353/con....

#Anthropocene #envhum #SF #STS

Project MUSE - Against Traplessness: Disconnection and Entrapment in Multispecies Science Fiction

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 18

I had a lot of fun writing this essay and hope you'll enjoy reading it: "Against traplessness: Disconnection and entrapment in multispecies science fiction," published with Configurations. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

🔗 doi.org/10.1353/con....

#Anthropocene #envhum #SF #STS

Project MUSE - Against Traplessness: Disconnection and Entrapment in Multispecies Science Fiction

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks Alberto! Check your inbox :)

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 18

By drawing on a conception of the Anthropocene as a contemporary form of entrapment par excellence, the essay cautions against idealized states of traplessness and posits disconnection as a precondition for the Anthropocene’s modulation. (5/5)

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 18

To help, I draw on two multispecies science fiction novels—Children of Time and Semiosis—that complicate the stakes of more-than-human relationality not with recourse to its purported absence but rather by foregrounding its productive impossibility. (4/5)

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 18

While such critiques tend to figure disconnection as external to relation, this essay suggests that disconnection and connection are constitutive of all relations in equal measure. (3/5)

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 18

Scholars have noted that the celebration of relationality in multispecies and posthumanist scholarship sometimes disregards how more-than-human entanglements entail various kinds of disjuncture. (2/5)

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Chakad Ojani @chakadojani.bsky.social · Aug 18

I had a lot of fun writing this essay and hope you'll enjoy reading it: "Against traplessness: Disconnection and entrapment in multispecies science fiction," published with Configurations. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

🔗 doi.org/10.1353/con....

#Anthropocene #envhum #SF #STS

Project MUSE - Against Traplessness: Disconnection and Entrapment in Multispecies Science Fiction

doi.org

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