Publications

ARC publications are articles, books, and chapters that relate directly or in a general fashion to ARC Collaborations.

James D. Faubion. (2011). An Anthropology of Ethics.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.(link)
Carlo Caduff.(2011). Anthropology’s Ethics: Moral Positionalism, Cultural Relativism, and Critical Analysis. In Anthropological Theory, 11 (4), 2011, pp. 465-480 (pdf)

C. M. Kelty, M. Lounsbury, V. Colvin, and C. Yavuz. (2010). Towards open source nano: Arsenic removal and alternative models of technology transfer. JAI Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth.
Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier (2010). Infrastructure and Event in Bruce Braun and Sarah Whatmore, eds., The Stuff of Politics: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life, University of Minnesota Press.
Carlo Caduff (2010). Public Prophylaxis. Pandemic Influenza, Pharmaceutical Prevention, and Participatory Governance. BioSocieties 5 (2).
Elise McCarthy and C. M. Kelty (2010). Responsibility and Nanotechnology. Social Studies of Science OnlineFirst, DOI: 10.1177/0306312709351762. (link)

Bennett, Gilman, Stavrianakis, and Rabinow (2009). “From Synthetic Biology to Biohacking: Are We Prepared?” Nature Biotechnology. December 2009. Vol 27, No 12.
C. M. Kelty (2009). Beyond Implications and Applications: the Story of ‘Safety by Design’. NanoEthics, Vol. 3, No. 2. Springer Netherlands. 79-96. (link)
Colin Koopman (2009). Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty. Columbia University Press. (link)
Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett (2009). “Synthetic Biology: Ethical Ramifications 2009.” The Journal of Systems and Synthetic Biology. 10-10-2009. Vol. 3, No. 1: 99-108.
Paul Rabinow (2009). “Prosperity, Amelioration, Flourishing: From a Logic of Practical Judgment to Reconstruction.” The Journal of Law and Literature. Nov 2009. Vol. 21, No. 3: 301-320.
Rabinow, Bennett, and Stavrianakis (2009. “Reply to the Respondents.” The Journal of Law and Literature. Nov 2009. Vol. 21, No. 3: 471-479.

Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff (2008). Distributed Preparedness: Notes on the Genealogy of Homeland Security. Environment and Planning D: Space and Society, 26:1. (link)
Stephen J. Collier (2008). Enacting Catastrophe: Preparedness, Insurance, Budgetary Rationalization. Economy and Society 37(2), pp. 224-250. (link)
Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff (2008). The Vulnerability of Vital Systems: How Critical Infrastructure Became a Security Problem in Myriam Dunn, ed., The Changing Logics of Risk and Security. Routledge.
Lyle Fearnley (2008). Signals Come and Go. Environment and Planning A. (link)
C. M. Kelty (2008). Allotropes of Fieldwork in Nanotechnology. Philosophy and Medicine. Springer Netherlands. (link)
Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier, eds (2008). Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question. Columbia University Press. (link)
Andrew Lakoff (2008). The Generic Biothreat, or, How We Became Unprepared. Cultural Anthropology 23(3), 399-428. (link)
Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett (2008). Ars Synthetica: Designs for Human Practice. Houston: Rice University Press. (link)
Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, et al (2008). Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary. Duke University Press. (link)
Paul Rabinow (2008). “Episodes or Incidents: Seeking Significance” in Lackoff and Collier, eds. Biosecurity Interventions. New York: Columbia University Press.

Carlo Caduff and Paul Rabinow (2006). Life — After Canguilhem. Theory, Culture, and Society 5, 23. (link)
Stephen J. Collier (2006). Global Assemblages. Theory, Culture, and Society 5, 23. (link)
C. M. Kelty (2006). The Ethics and Politics of Nanotechnology. Technical report, UNESCO, Paris. UNESCO Publication. (pdf)
Andrew Lakoff (2006). Techniques of Preparedness in Torin Monahan, ed., Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge. (link)
Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose (2006). Biopower Today. BioSocieties 1. (pdf)

C. M. Kelty (2005). Understanding Nanotechnology Anthropologically. Anthropology News, 46(1):27. (link)
Nicolas Langlitz (2005). Response to Helmreich. Anthropology Today. Vol. 21, No. 6. (pdf)

Stephen J. Collier, Andrew Lakoff, and Paul Rabinow (2004). Biosecurity: Towards an Anthropology of the Contemporary. Anthropology Today 20, 5. (pdf)
Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier (2004). Ethics and the Anthropology of Modern Reason. Anthropological Theory, 4, 4. (pdf)

Paul Rabinow (2003). The Lost Continent. American Ethnologist. Vol. 30, No. 4. American Anthropology Association. (pdf)
Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose (2003). Foucault Today. The Essential Foucault: Introduction. New York: New Press. (pdf)

Paul Rabinow (2002). Midst Anthropology’s Problems. Cultural Anthropology. Vol. 17, No. 2. American Anthropology Association. 135-149. (pdf)

Paul Rabinow (2001). St. Francis at Ground Zero. Anthropology Quarterly. Vol. 75, No. 1. George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research. 113-116. (pdf)

Gisli Palsson and Paul Rabinow (1999). Iceland: The Case of a National Human Genome Project. Anthropology Today. Vol. 15, No. 5. 14-18. (pdf)
Paul Rabinow (1998). French Enlightenment: truth and life. Economy and Society. Vol. 27. New York: Routledge. 193-201. (pdf)
Paul Rabinow (1996). American Moderns: On Sciences and Scientists. Essays on the Anthropology of Reason. Princeston, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 162-189. (pdf)
Paul Rabinow (1992). Studies in the Anthropology of Reason. Anthropology Today. Vol. 8, No. 5. Royal Anthropology Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 7-10. (pdf)
Paul Rabinow (1988). Beyond Ethnography: Anthropology as Nominalism. Cultural Anthropology. Vol. 3, No. 4. American Anthropology Association. 355-364. (pdf)
History of the Present
- February 1985 Issue (pdf)

- Spring 1986 Issue (pdf)

- Fall 1987 Issue (pdf)

- Spring 1988 Issue (pdf)

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