Anthropological Research on the Contemporary is devoted to collaborative inquiry into contemporary forms of life, labor and language.

ARC: About ARC

What is the Anthropology of the Contemporary?
We understand the contemporary as a “moving ratio of modernity, moving through the recent past and the near future in a (nonlinear) space that gauges modernity as an ethos already becoming historical” (Paul Rabinow, Marking Time, 2008: 2). We regard the contemporary as an emerging assemblage, and thus find it particularly suitable for collaborative and experimental forms of inquiry.

Core Participants
Paul Rabinow
Gaymon Bennett
Anthony Stavrianakis 

 

 

 

Contributions or Feedback?

Contact: stavrianakis [at] berkeley [dot] edu


 
Meg Stalcup
Lyle Fearnley 
Stan Herman
Adrian Van Allen
Stephen Collier
Andrew Lakoff

 
James Faubion
James Holston
Christopher Kelty
Colin Koopman
Tobias Rees
Carlo Caduff