Digital technologies, dreams and disconcertment in anthropological worldmaking

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This chapter is a response to the increasing calls for an engaged anthropology, part of this edited volume’s larger prospect of a future-oriented anthropology. It describes dreams and digital technologies as an infrastructure of the flow of images of the future—an infrastructure that has a tendency to disappear from focus and blend into the background in much research, but will be made the explicit focus. Through digital technologies Amal sent out tentative, hopeful and despairing images and into the world; open-ended requests that might do unforeseen work. The author turns to dreams as infrastructure for the flow of images of the future, and afterwards to digital technologies as an infrastructure for images impacting the future. The concept of the imaginal realm offers a way to engage with what lies beyond and between the intelligible and sensible/corporeal, adding a different dimension to the work on the imaginary in continental philosophy and anthropology.
Original languageEnglish
Publication dateMay 2017
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
Edition1st edition
VolumeAnthropologies and Futures
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9781003084570
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2017

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