BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news335@ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240223T170838 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240327T161500 SUMMARY:Are Spiders Good to Think with? DESCRIPTION:Not just since the dissemination of Donna Haraway’s concept o f “tentacular thinking” (Haraway 2016) and the publication of Feral At las (Tsing et. al. 2020) it is apparent that human exceptionalism and the mono-perspectivism that often accompanies it\, have become inadequate know ledge practices. In media anthropology as well as in artistic research\, t entacularity is often conceptualised in terms of entanglements and layerin gs\, and the tentacular is imagined as spreading through nets and networks .\\r\\nIn my presentation\, I am taking Haraway’s proposition of “tent acular thinking” quite literal: I am drawing on long-term multimodal eth nographic research on Apulian tarantism\, a spider possession cult that is endemic to Southern Italy and intrinsically linked to Saint Paul\, the pa tron saint of those bitten by venomous animals. I argue that several more- than-human agents – venomous critters\, Catholic saints and eventually l andscape itself – continue to shape social relations that are grounded i n a principle of shared corporeality open to suffering.\\r\\nI will screen passages from my ethnographic documentary film “Tarantism Revisited” (together with Anja Dreschke) to discuss principles of essayistic montage\ , layering and leveraging the (multimodal) archive in relation to “tenta cular thinking.” I maintain that spiders ARE good to think with when it comes to generating other forms of knowledge and/or connecting seemingly u nrelated phenomena that challenge culture/nature dichotomies. X-ALT-DESC:

Not just since the dissemination of Donna Haraway’s concept of “tentacular thinking” (Haraway 2016) and the publication of Fe ral Atlas (Tsing et. al. 2020) it is apparent that human exceptionali sm and the mono-perspectivism that often accompanies it\, have become inad equate knowledge practices. In media anthropology as well as in artistic r esearch\, tentacularity is often conceptualised in terms of entanglements and layerings\, and the tentacular is imagined as spreading through nets a nd networks.

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In my presentation\, I am taking Haraway’s proposit ion of “tentacular thinking” quite literal: I am drawing on long-term multimodal ethnographic research on Apulian tarantism\, a spider possessio n cult that is endemic to Southern Italy and intrinsically linked to Saint Paul\, the patron saint of those bitten by venomous animals. I argue that several more-than-human agents – venomous critters\, Catholic saints an d eventually landscape itself – continue to shape social relations that are grounded in a principle of shared corporeality open to suffering.

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I will screen passages from my ethnographic documentary film “Tarant ism Revisited” (together with Anja Dreschke) to discuss principles of es sayistic montage\, layering and leveraging the (multimodal) archive in rel ation to “tentacular thinking.” I maintain that spiders ARE good to th ink with when it comes to generating other forms of knowledge and/or conne cting seemingly unrelated phenomena that challenge culture/nature dichotom ies.

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