Open AccessRELATIONAL SPACE: An Earthly Installation
Author(s) -
BATTAGLIA DEBBORA,
VALENTINE DAVID,
OLSON VALERIE
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
cultural anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1548-1360
pISSN - 0886-7356
DOI - 10.14506/ca30.2.07
Subject(s) - discipline , agency (philosophy) , space (punctuation) , futures contract , sociology , epistemology , power (physics) , social science , computer science , business , philosophy , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , operating system
Anthropology off the Earth opens to new questions and futures for our disciplinary project and reach, while at the same time compelling revisits to classic sites of anthropological inquiry and critique. Taking as a given that human labor and imagination are neither limitable to, nor severable from, terrestrial‐scapes of knowledge and practice, we argue that conceptually and materially working with outer space offers a unique opportunity to engage inter/disciplinary questions across many scales: with technologies of inter‐being connections and disconnections, with approaches to what counts as nature and culture, and with questions concerning the often‐invisible force fields of agency and structures of power.