Naslov
Knowledge as technique, techniques of the living

Autori
Czerny, Sarah ; Colquhoun, Anna

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
NEST (Networking Ecologically Smart Territories) - Marie-Sklodowska Curie, European Research Council

Mjesto i datum
Cres, Hrvatska, 28.09.2022. - 29.09.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Knowledge production ; food ; ontology

Sažetak
The objective of contributory knowledge is always double: to 1) produce new knowledge by looking at the relationship between the physiological, technical and social organs that make up a given situation and 2) to consider the technical objects used to forge said knowledge. This session will pause on this latter point, on knowledge as its delimited by the techniques at our disposal. Given the particular context of this project, we will ground our discussion in practices that create, demonstrate or rely on a certain knowledge about the living. Many argue that such practices are in decline. Since the industrial revolution, which instigated a wave of migration towards urban centres, fewer and fewer people are in regular and conscious contact with non-human life. Arguing that such ignorance makes us insensitive to the systematic destruction of life systems, the philosopher Baptizte Morizot has called for a new and veritable culture of the living – what he imagines as a ‘network of knowledge, interpretations, significant anecdotes, stories of invisibles relation, [and of] lived familiarity’ – to relocate the living at the center of collective spaces and our political consciousness. Reflecting on the techniques of the living is complementary to this effervescent call to arms. If Morizot highlights the importance of producing more knowledge about the living, we suggest that it matters how this knowledge is produced – whether it’s pursued through a microscope or satellite data, through models or lived experience, whether it’s passed down through generations or developed in science labs, whether it’s supposedly neutral or decidedly invested. The practices we will consider here are of various nature – from techniques of cooking and agriculture to techniques of monitoring and tracking, from ancient rituals to digital technologies. If we find it important to ask how we know the living, it isn’t just because different techniques reveal different characteristics about an object or phenomenon. Following Gregory Bateson’s assertion that ontology (the way things are) cannot be separated from epistemology (the way we know things), you might say that different knowledge- techniques give rise to different types of living entirely.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

POVEZANOST RADA