artist. This article analyzes the Monument's suspension and its multiple effects. Drawing from Akhil Gupta's (2015) work, I understand suspension not as “a temporary phase between the start of a project and its (successful) conclusion,” but as a mode
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Monumental Suspension
Art, Infrastructure, and Eduardo Chillida's Unbuilt Monument to Tolerance
Isaac Marrero-Guillamón
Qihao Ji and Arthur A. Raney
directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the
Tending to Suspension
Abstraction and Apparatuses of Atmospheric Attunement in Matsutake Worlds
Timothy Choy
Scenes from mushroom technosciences illuminate forms, practices, and temporalities of atmospheric attunement. This article reanimates moments from scientific literature where chemists and mycologists chase elusive smells and spores, explicating how scientists’ experimental apparatuses of attunement arrange conditions for matsutake to be reduced and concentrated toward the goal of sensibility. Reduction and concentration do more than translate atmospheric elusiveness into specification; achieved through grinding, evaporating, and remixing, they condition a ‘tending to suspension’. Tending to suspension amplifies qualities and throws subjects and sensorial attention into the middle of volumes and durations. ‘Tending’ implies care as well as a ‘tending toward’—the sense that something may develop a tendency. Experimental apparatuses of atmospheric attunement, tending to such tendings, model a method for anthropological study of diffuse objects.
(Dis)Connected Rail
Infrastructural Suspension and Phatic Politics in Romania
Adrian Deoancă
to moments of indefinite suspension wherein the generative and degenerative potentials of material structures are laid bare. 6 Dwelling on suspension can provide valuable insights into practices of remediation and political affects that enable
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Nov 2019
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 713–715 (2 total)
Black hole state
Human rights and the work of suspension in post‐war Kosovo
Agathe Mora
Much has been made of the Agambenian framework of exception and the regime of legal suspension it establishes. This paper ethnographically examines the hard work that is required to produce legal suspension within the parameters of the law by looking at the practice of property restitution of transitional institutions in post‐war Kosovo. Kosovo’s ‘black hole state’ reveals how the legal bureaucracies established to usher in human rights serve to perpetuate the state of suspension rather than realising their utopian goals.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 83–95 (12 total)
Narmala Halstead
As a much proclaimed ‘new normal’ accompanying the global pandemic, the suspension of certain rights to protect other rights returns our attention to notions of exceptions outside the law in terms of sovereign power and those hidden within the
Viral Intimacy and Catholic Nationalist Political Economy
Covid-19 and the Community Response in Rural Ireland
David Whyte
public and private, for-profit and non-profit, voluntary and professional institutions – was created. Many commentators described this ‘new normal’ as the suspension of Irish neoliberalism. However, some of the key organisations involved in the Community
‘I Did Not Wash My Hand for Days’
The Stuplime Return of Revolutionary Speech in the Republic of Guinea
Mike McGovern
-conscious revolutionary stylings, until they weren't. How should we understand the majority of the Guinean populace's willing suspension of disbelief for some six months, and how do we understand their subsequent rejection of him as a verbose buffoon, a fate that never
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 78–95 (18 total)
Itaewon's suspense
Masculinities, place‐making and the US Armed Forces in a Seoul entertainment district
Elisabeth Schober
The US military presence in Korea has had unintended consequences in an entertainment district in Seoul, where competing performances of masculinity function as a key place‐making strategy. Itaewon's suspense – the uneasy positioning of the neighbourhood between allure and repulsion – arises out of a suspension of the area between contesting sovereignties, and at times allows fraternal bonding between an unlikely cast of actors. With Itaewon's multifarious identities increasingly becoming commodified, the democratic liberalisations (which have partly emerged from and partly acted upon the place of Itaewon) have ironically also opened the gates for rampant economic liberalisation.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 36–51 (15 total)