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An anthropological trompe l'oeil for a common world : an essay on the economy of knowledge /

Our political age is characterized by forms of description as 'big' as the world itself: talk of 'public knowledge' and 'public goods,' 'the commons' or 'global justice' create an exigency for modes of governance that leave little room for smallness...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jiménez, Alberto Corsín (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Series:Ethnography, theory, experiment.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Figures; Preface ZOOM IN Introduction PART I: TROMPE L'OEIL A Myth of Origins Chapter 1. Surviving Comparison; Chapter 2. The Strabismic Eye; Chapter 3. Reversibility / Proportionality ZOOM OUT PART II: COMMON WORLD Chapter 4. Political / Phantasmagoria; Chapter 5. Predation / Production; Chapter 6. Exteriority / Interiority AT PERPENDICULAR ANGLES References.