(in Polish) Antropologia realności

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(Poniższa lista literatury i porządek zajęć mogą jeszcze ulec zmianom)

1. Introduction: The question of the real
a. Barthes, Roland. 1989. “The Reality Effect” in The Rustle of Language, Berkeley: UC Press
b. Van de Port, Mattijs. 2012. “Genuinely made up” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 18, No. 4 (December 2012), pp. 864-883
c. Westerhoff, Jan. 2011. Reality a Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (fragm.)

2. The social construction of reality as knowledge
a. Berger and Luckmann, 1966. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (fragm.)
b. Sokol, 2023. Working Through What Is (fragm.)

3. The Real and The Other
a. Evans-Pritchard, Azande Magic (fragm.)
b. Favret-Saada, 2015 [2009] The Anti-Witch (fragm.)
c. Motta, Marco. 2021. “Living with Zombies. Forms of Death and the Core of the Ordinary” in Living With Concepts. Anthropology in the Grip of Reality

4. Making modern realities – science
a. Ingold, Tim. 2013. “Dreaming of dragons: on the imagination of real life” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 19, 734-752
b. Latour, Bruno. “Do you believe in reality?”
c. Poovey, Mary. (1998). A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. University of Chicago Press Hacking, Ian. The Social Construction of What? (fragm)

5. Reality and the Real in psychoanalysis
a. Freud, Sigmund. (2010). Beyond the pleasure principle (J. Strachey, Trans.). Pacific Publishing Studio.
b. Klein, M. (1952). Some theoretical conclusions regarding the emotional life of an infant. In Envy and Gratitude (pp. 61–93).
c. [Lacan on The Real] or Žižek, Slavoj. 2007. “Psychoanalysis and the Lacanian Real: <>” in: Beaumont, Matthew ed. Adventures in Realism. London: Blackwell.

6. Reality, madness and healing
a. Foucault, Michel. 2008. Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974. Jacques Lagrange and Graham Burchell, eds. London: Macmillan.
b. Das, Veena. “Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness and the Claim to the Real”

7. The Real Economy
a. Neiburg, Federico B., and Jane I. Guyer, eds. 2020. The Real Economy: Essays in Ethnographic Theory. Chicago, IL: Hau Books. (fragm.)
b. Crypto / blockchain - TBD
c. [in PL:] Leder, Andrzej. 2023. Ekonomia to stan umysłu (fragm.)

8. Capitalist Realism and Real Socialism
a. Fisher, Mark. 2009. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Winchester: Zero Books. (fragm.)
b. Burawoy, Michael and Janos Lukács. 1992. The Radiant Past. Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road To Capitalism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

9. Media, propaganda and modern politics
a. Castillo, David R., and William Egginton. 2017. Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
b. Pomerantsev, Peter, and Michael Weiss. 2014. “How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money.” New York, NY: Institute of Modern Russia. https://imrussia.org/media/pdf/Research/Michael_Weiss_and_Peter_Pomerantsev__The_Menace_of_Unreality.pdf.
c. Pomerantsev, Peter. This Is Propaganda. (fragm.)
d. Debord, Guy. 1970. The Society of the Spectacle (fragm.)
e. Yurchak, Alexei. Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More (fragm., Ch1)
f. Curtis, Adam, Hypernormalization (film, fragments).

10. Realism and new realism
a. Jameson, Fredric. 2015. The Antinomies of Realism. London: Verso. (fragm.) or “A Note on Literary Realism in Conclusion” in: Beaumont, Matthew ed. Adventures in Realism. London: Blackwell
b. Potter, Jonathan. 1996. Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction. London; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (fragm.)

11. The Ontological Turn
a. Holbraad, Martin and Morten Axel Petersen. 2014. “The Politics of Ontology” or 2017. The Ontological Turn, Cambridge UP (fragm.)
b. Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2014. “The relative native”. HAU 3(3): 473-502.

12. History, Reality, Truth
a. De Certeau, Michel. “The historiographical operation”
b. Taussig, Michael. 1984. “History as Sorcery”. Representations, No. 7 (Summer 1984), pp. 97-109.

13. Societies and their physics
a. Barad, Karen. 1998. “Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality”. Differences. A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 10.2
b. Barad, Karen. 2007. Meeting the Universe Halfway. Quantum Physics and The Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham: Duke UP (fragm.)
c. “The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It | Scientific American.” n.d. Accessed November 13, 2023. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-universe-is-not-locally-real-and-the-physics-nobel-prize-winners-proved-it/.

14. Immersion. Virtual Realities
a. TBD

15. Looking for something real to rest on
a. Latour, Bruno. 2003. “The promises of constructivism” in Ihde, Don and Evan Selinger (eds.) Chasing Technoscience. Matrix for Materiality. Bloomington: Indiana UP
b. Bennett, Jane. 2010. Vibrant matter. A Political Ecology of Things. Berkeley: California UP

16. Utopia and the imaginary
a. Ticktin, Miriam. 2022. “Borders. A Story of Political Imagination”, borderlands Vol 21 | No 1 2022 DOI | 10.21307/borderlands-2022-007
b. TBD

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