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Thursday, 21 July 2022, 2 p.m. (sharp), room 130.00.03
At the core of this presentation lies a problem that I have encountered in my professional live as a scholar: what is it that we can say about the patterns of conceptual labour visible in the discipline of anthropology operating within neoliberal academia? We experience an exceptional acceleration of concept making processes by anthropologists that has a distinctive comment on reflexivity as a practice and a unique experience of time within academia. I will speak, with some examples, about the current state of affairs in neoliberal academia whose demand for accelerated production of concepts and proliferation of conceptual labour has had effects on the ethics of knowledge production and circulation.
More information here.
Dr. Max Kramer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Volkswagen Freigeist project "The Populism of the Precarious: Marginalization, Mobilization, and Mediatization of South Asia's Religious Minorities", and research associate at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin.
The talk is a public talk in the course of Hans Harder's seminar on "Speed: Dromology between South Asia and Europe".
All are welcome!
