Anthropology of Time

Bear, Laura (2016) “Time as Technique”, Annual Review of Anthropology 45(1): 487–502. http://lar.me/timeastechnique

Bear 2016

• Austerity

• Bureaucracy 

• Techne (techniques)
• Episteme (knowledges)
• Phronesis (ethics)

• Capitalist modernity

• Boelstorff leisure/work

• Chong ERP

• Securitization

• Urgency

• Agency

• Non-linear time

• Time-tricking

• Billable time

• Knowledge work

• Attention economy

Sphere of Agency

“In an Ideal World…”

• Think of the society in which you would like to live
• What could help us get there?
• What role do you personally play in that society?

Exercise and Text Note

Following Projects

Exercises

• Everett: Photo Zine
• Alice: Qual class
• Zachary: Native Studies

Text Notes

• Deborrah: Substance use
• Matthew, Everett: Organizational Anthropology (Neyland)
• Maryjo: Bewildered 
• Alice: Social research design

Action Items

Twentieth Text Note

• Online ethnography and digital media

• From deeper context to recent and current

Twentieth Exercise

• Mini-project
• Online fieldwork
• Step 1: Entering the field