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Real time: Unwinding technocratic and anthropological knowledge
Author(s) -
Riles Annelise
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.2004.31.3.392
Subject(s) - technocracy , ethnography , metaphor , representation (politics) , sociology , resource (disambiguation) , epistemology , task (project management) , political science , anthropology , philosophy , economics , management , law , computer science , politics , theology , computer network
“The Bank of Japan is our mother,” bankers in Tokyo sometimes said of Japan's central bank. Drawing on this metaphor as an ethnographic resource, and on the example of central bankers who sought to unwind their own technocratic knowledge by replacing it with a real‐time machine, I retrace the ethnographic task of unwinding technocratic knowledge from those anthropological knowledge practices that critique technocracy. In so doing, I draw attention to special methodological problems—involving the relationship between ethnography, analysis, and reception—in the representation and critique of contemporary knowledge practices.

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