- Convenors:
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Kate Hennessy
(Simon Fraser University)
stephanie takaragawa (Chapman University)
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- Format:
- Panel
Short Abstract:
Engages the discursive, material, and historical entanglements of the multimodal by bringing together scholars and artists who are working across media and geographies to reveal what we call “Bad Habitus”. We invite proposals oriented as keywords toward an anthropology of the multimodal.
Long Abstract:
This panel engages the discursive, material, and historical entanglements of the multimodal in anthropology by bringing together scholars and artists who are working across media and geographies to reveal what we call “Bad Habitus”: a playful engagement with Ahmed’s “bad habits” (2007) and the everyday reproduction of relations of power as habitus (Bourdieu 1977). Continuing in the trajectory to “expand beyond Eurocentric, colonialist, and ableist ways of doing what we do, with or without technology” (Chin 2017: 541), this panel builds on our article Bad Habitus (Takaragawa et. al. 2019). We seek panellists who are critically engaging the tools and technologies of the multimodal in practice or are taking a broader historical or theoretical view to mine and undermine the qualities and connections that are obscured or amplified through our practices. How might an orientation toward our bad habitus begin to define a critical anthropology of the multimodal that resists techno-determinist, capitalist, and disciplinary extractivism rather than reinforcing it?
We invite proposals that foreground art works and/or broader historical and theoretical orientations as keywords referencing specific technologies (eg. AI, drone, cell phone, data centre, cloud), media (eg. photograph, video, 3D model); the environment (eg. water, mining, air pollution, climate) or theoretical, speculative frames that contributors identify as implicated in the multimodal (eg. time, labour, conflict, preservation, fugitivity). Selected presenters will be invited to contribute a chapter to an edited volume currently in development that will foreground the generative potential of creative practices toward a future anthropology of the multimodal.