[SYMPOSIUM] BOOK CLUB
#3 Owens: The Discourse of Others
Friday, 8 January 2016, 6:00pm – 8:30pm
The Field, 385 Queens Road, London SE14 5HD Continue reading Owens: The Discourse of Others
Friday, 8 January 2016, 6:00pm – 8:30pm
The Field, 385 Queens Road, London SE14 5HD Continue reading Owens: The Discourse of Others
The SYMPOSIUM book club was a monthly open-access reading group for artists, researchers and anyone interested in the intersections between art practice and critical theory. Everyone was welcome to propose a text and facilitate the reading group.
Friday, 11 December 2015, 6:00pm – 8:30pm
The Field, 385 Queens Road, London SE14 5HD
Chaired by OmarJoseph Nasser-Khoury
Rail/Overground: New Cross Gate, Queens Road Peckham
Free, please book your place
We’ve selected Writing against Culture (1991) by Lila Abu-Lughod for our second reading. This discussion will be chaired by OmarJoseph Nasser-Khoury.
DOWNLOAD: Abu-Lughod, Lila (2006/1991). Writing against Culture. In Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, Henrietta Moore and Todd Sanders ed. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 466–479.
In this academic text, Lila Abu-Lughod unpacks the pitfalls of anthropological methods of research and analysis, which often construct generalised and over-simplified assumptions based on cultural difference.
Abu-Lughod proposed three different strategies of “writing against culture” to counter ethnographic accounts of the time, which presented culture as something that is static, discrete, homogeneous and coherent, ignoring the cross-over between societies, social and cultural change, subjectivity and everyday contradictions.
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