Simon Starling, Black Drop: Ciné-Roman, text by Mike Davis and Simon Starling (Milan: Humboldt Books, 2013).
For far richer descriptive context, see Nicholas Thomas, Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook (New York: Walker Publishing Company, 2003).
“Review: Black Drop,” The Oxford Culture Review, March 18, 2013 →.
Thomas, Cook.
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, “The Forest of Mirrors: A Few Notes on the Ontology of Amazonian Spirits” (paper presented at the symposium La nature des esprits: humains et non-humains dans les cosmologies autochtones des Amériques, convenor F. Laugrand, sponsored by the Centre Interuniversitaire d’Études et de Recherches sur les Autochtones, Université Laval, Québec, April 2004).
R. D. Haynes, “Dreaming the Stars: Astronomy of the Australian Aborigines,” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 20.3 (1995): 187–197.
Elizabeth Povinelli, “Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism” (keynote address at The Anthropocene Project: An Opening, January 10–13, 2013, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin).
Ibid.
See Bruno Latour, The Politics of Nature (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004).
See Rafael Antunes Almeida and Debbora Battaglia, “‘Otherwise Anthropology’ Otherwise: The View from Technology,” culanth.org, February 24, 2014 →.
Viveiros de Castro, “The Forest of Mirrors.”
Goetz Hoeppe, “Working Data Together: Accountability and Reflexivity in Digital Astronomical Practice,” Social Studies of Science 44.2 (2014): 243–270. This idea is also commonly pointed out by Lorraine Daston (“Objectivity and the Escape from Perspective,” Social Studies of Science 22 [1999
Ibid.
Quoted in Scott Atran, “A Memory of Claude Lévi-Strauss,” Huffington Post →.
Simon Schaffer, “Understanding (through) Things” (paper presented at the conference The Location of Knowledge, convenor Simon Goldhill, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Cambridge University, March 2013, page 4).
Marilyn Strathern, “Shifting Worlds” (paper presented at the workshop Emerging Worlds, convenor Danilyn Rutherford, University of California at Cruz, Department of Anthropology, 2013).
Schaffer, “Understanding (through) Things.”
Adam Robbert, "The Mischief and the Manyness," Knowledge Ecology, April 21, 2011.
Alberto Corsín-Jiménez, “Three Traps Many” (paper presented at the Sawyer Seminar: Indigenous Cosmopolitics, convenor Marisol de la Cadena, University of California at Davis, 2013).
“Where Today are the Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rocks?,” collectspace.com →.
Latour, The Politics of Nature, 451.
Personal correspondence, June 15, 2013.
See Benjamin Noys, The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010).
To quote him more fully in the context of his paper with Deborah Danowski on “Anthropocenographies”: "Time is out of joint, and it is running faster. This metatemporal instability is such that virtually everything thatcan be said about the climate crisis becomes, ipso facto, anachronical; and everything that can be done about it is necessarily too little, too late." Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, “Anthropocenographies” (paper presented at the Sawyer Seminar: Indigenous Cosmopolitics, convenors Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser, University of California at Davis, June 8, 2013).
Latour, The Politics of Nature, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), 81.
Acknowledgments: My appreciation to Marisol de la Cadena and Simon Blaser, convenors of the Sawyer Seminar on the topic of Indigenous Cosmopolitics, for the invitation to present these comments in draft in June 2013. Also, I am grateful to Alessandro Angelini and Nicole Labruto for drawing my attention to Simon Starling’s Black Drop, which I was able then to experience at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, before writing the final version of this paper.