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Commodity Violence: The Punctum of Data
Author(s) -
Jain S. Lochlann
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1111/var.12213
Subject(s) - ethnography , relation (database) , extant taxon , commodity , field (mathematics) , sociology , visual arts , epistemology , computer science , art , anthropology , philosophy , economics , mathematics , database , evolutionary biology , pure mathematics , biology , market economy
This article discusses methods for anthropologists interested in practicing visual arts as an ethnographic method of analysis and communication. Through an overview of a project I developed, I discuss my approach in relation to psychogeography and theatrical Moment Work. I suggest that these techniques can be usefully harnessed to build an ethnographic approach to image‐making and develop visual vocabularies that exceed the purpose of illustrating extant ideas and concepts in the field. This is critical because such ideas and concepts operate on a different plane from those developed in the art‐related disciplines that have generally adjudicated the visual field.