Speed: An Introduction

Duclos, Vincent; Criado, Tomás Sánchez; Nguyen, Vinh-Kim

doi:10.14506/ca32.1.01

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“…This analysis thereby also poses a challenge to prevalent assumptions regarding digital immediacy as a one-directional speeding up of life through increasingly networked worlds, with information, connections and media always available through the tap of a keyboard or the swipe of a screen (Sprenger 2014). More nuanced accounts have emerged that provide scope to consider ways in which the digital may slow life down, to stabilise and calm (Wajcman 2015, Duclos et al 2017, Reading, 2012. These are important points in relation to analysing the meanings of 'crisis' that emerge through the immediacy of online support.…”

Section: Digital Immediacymentioning

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Temporalities of mental distress: digital immediacy and the meaning of ‘crisis’ in online support

Tucker

Lavis

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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The Internet is increasingly used to seek support by those suffering with mental distress (Bauman, S. and Rivers, I. Mental Health and the Digital Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan; 2015). Drawing on research on a major online peer support forum, we analyse discussions around acute distress, self‐harm and suicide. The paper argues that new temporalities of mental health ‘crisis’ are emerging through the intersection of the immediacy of online support, the chronicity of underlying distress and the punctuated nature of professional support. Online support adds a layer of temporal immediacy that does not traditionally feature in other forms of support (e.g. professional in‐person services). This shifts the meaning of a mental health ‘crisis’ from acute to processual, and can lead to definitions of ‘crisis’ being used when not desired nor necessarily accurate. By attending to the layering of temporalities at the intersections of professional in‐person, and online support, we demonstrate how parameters of crisis support are set – by whom, for whom and in relation to whose bodies. This has implications for professional clinical practice internationally in relation to the increased digitisation of support and the meanings of ‘crisis’ that emerge.

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Section: Digital Immediacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Temporalities of mental distress: digital immediacy and the meaning of ‘crisis’ in online support

Tucker

Lavis

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…In their introduction to a Cultural Anthropology Openings and Retrospectives section on speed, Vincent Duclos, Tomás Sánchez Criado, and Vinh‐Kim Nguyen () assert that the world is accelerating and that anthropological engagements with speed as process (as opposed to static representations of cultural experiences of time) could spark new imaginative capacities toward more viable futures. This is not, they explain, about a faster anthropology, nor is it about producing accounts of how people experience speed.…”

Section: Temporality Mobility and Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 99%

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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This essay reviews work produced in predominantly US cultural anthropology publications throughout 2017. It asks: What makes an anthropological inquiry timely, what sorts of relationalities command anthropological attention, and to what end? Noting our ongoing methodological commitment to long-term ethnography alongside increasingly important online forums for reaching broader publics and responding quickly to emerging issues, it expands the range of work surveyed to include some online-only short essays alongside the larger collection of traditionally published research articles. Characterized by empathic inquiry, frequently drawing on years of ethnographic and personal experience with the places, people, and other entities that we write about, and often attentive to histories at multiple scales, cultural anthropology of this moment, however published, grapples with dark times while it also offers ways of imagining other, better futures and ways of being in relation to others. Two thematic clusters organize this essay: the first considers temporality alongside mobility and sovereignty, and the second considers relationality alongside subjectivity and mediation. Together, all of these concerns-that are both of the moment and long standing-build a varied body of work that grapples with the interrelationalities that constitute power, place, and possibility. I argue that what makes an anthropological inquiry timely is the extent to which it is relationally informed and attuned to care for worlds that we inhabit and imagine, together. [year in review, sociocultural anthropology, temporality, mobility, sovereignty, relationality, subjectivity, mediation] RESUMEN Este ensayo revisa el trabajo producido en publicaciones de antropología cultural predominantemente estadounidenses durante 2017. Pregunta: ¿Qué hace la investigación antropológica oportuna, y qué tipos de relacionalidades comandan la atención antropológica, y con qué fin? Notando nuestro compromiso metodológico continuo con una etnografía de largo plazo junto a foros en línea cada vez más importantes para llegar a públicos más amplios y respondiendo rápidamente a cuestiones emergentes, expande el rango del trabajo evaluado para incluir algunos ensayos cortos sólo en línea junto a la mayor colección de artículos de investigación publicados tradicionalmente. Caracterizada por una investigación empática, frecuentemente extrayendo de años de experiencia etnográfica y personal con los lugares, la gente, y otras entidades sobre las que escribimos, y a menudo atentos a historias a escalas múltiples, la antropología cultural de este momento, independientemente de cómo sea publicada, lucha contra tiempos oscuros mientras ofrece maneras de imaginar otros, mejores futuros y formas de estar en relación con otros. Dos grupos temáticos organizan este ensayo: el primero considera temporalidad junto a movilidad y soberanía, y el segundo considera relacionalidad junto a subjetividad y mediación. Juntas, todas estas preocupaciones-que son tanto del momento como de larga d...

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“…As Dr. Wu pointed out to me, the key challenge of his system is to devise a method of breeding the BSF that can yield a predictable quantity of flies throughout the changing lighting and temperature conditions of different seasons. Just as attention to the calibration of speed and the nature of circulation proves central to the configuration of production and consumption in late capitalism (Cowen 2014;Duclos, Sánchez Criado, and Nguyen 2017), to be adapted as a biotechnology and a waste infrastructure for cities, the speed and reliable reproduction of fly larvae must complement the predictable rate of human organic waste output.…”

Section: Producing Circularity Through Laboratory Workmentioning

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Circularity and Enclosures: Metabolizing Waste with the Black Soldier Fly

Zhang

2020

Cult. Anthropol.

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This essay traces a scientific pilot project to transform the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) into a biotechnology to treat urban organic waste in accordance with the dominant cultural logics of an ecologically modern approach to waste management in contemporary China. A principle of urban waste management, circularity, and a spatial logic of urban living, enclosures, condition the scientific intervention that promises to harness animal metabolic labor as a biotechnology and a waste infrastructure that can be adapted to the urban ecologies of Guangzhou. While scientists emphasize the natural proclivities of insect metabolism to transform waste into value, my ethnographic research illustrates that the practice of aligning animal metabolism with urban metabolism is anything but natural or automatic. Together, circularity and enclosure, as guiding logics of waste management in Chinese ecological modernization, uphold a fiction of biocapital; they create the illusion that nature generates value and remediates environments without human intervention while mystifying and naturalizing the appropriation of nature and labor in the new green city.

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Speed: An Introduction

Cited by 52 publications

References 3 publications

Temporalities of mental distress: digital immediacy and the meaning of ‘crisis’ in online support

Temporalities of mental distress: digital immediacy and the meaning of ‘crisis’ in online support

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Circularity and Enclosures: Metabolizing Waste with the Black Soldier Fly

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