About ARC

 

What is ARC?
The Anthropology of the Contemporary Collaboratory is a
collaboratory for inquiry into contemporary forms of life, labor, and language. ARC engages in empirical study and conceptual work with global reach and long-term perspective. ARC creates contemporary equipment for work on collaborative projects and problems in the 21st century.

 

The term “collaboratory” gained currency in the early 1990s referring to a “distributed research network articulated by means of information technology.” For us a collaboratory is a dynamic and emergent form for inquiry and exchange. We seek to reimagine and remediate the norms, standards, and mechanisms of critical rectification that make it possible to conduct inquiry. The aim is to contribute to the production of knowledge and tools for thought in a mode of collaboration and care.

 

Directors
Paul Rabinow
Stephen Collier
Andrew Lakoff
Christopher Kelty
James Faubion
Gaymon Bennett