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Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams
- Asya uses anthropology’s tools to regard her own specific life and surroundings with curiosity and distance, allowing her to better understand them and to see their meaning and worth.
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Jenna Guarascio added 25d ago
- Why is this important? Because, Perec argued, if we can learn how to “speak of these ‘common things,’” which he describes as “the banal, the quotidian, the obvious . . . the background noise, the habitual,” we can stop doing what we default to, which is to “sleep through our lives in a dreamless sleep.” Instead, we can give the fundamental elements... See more
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Jenna Guarascio added 25d ago
In relation the convo with Travis
- “What’s needed perhaps,” Perec concludes, “is finally to found our own anthropology, one that will speak about us, will look in ourselves for what for so long we’ve been pillaging from others. Not the exotic anymore, but the endotic.”
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Jenna Guarascio added 25d ago
- “I found my subjects self-explanatory, if not a little disappointing. . . . It was just life, in a somewhat ugly town. There were afternoon snacks of Fanta and stale vanilla cake. The children that came to the center wore sneakers and had cell phones. They listened to the same pop songs as the rest of the world.”
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Jenna Guarascio added 25d ago
In relation to my theory that the most powerful inspiration comes from unexpected places
- “[mistrust] the woman’s process of abstraction, simply because I’d grown weary of life in the abstract. For most of the people we were acquainted with, Manu and I were nothing more than our countries of origin, our accents, our work. And I yearned for a specific existence.”
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“yearned for a specific existence”
- Over three days in October 1974, the French experimental writer Georges Perec sat in cafés and a tabac in a Parisian public square called Place Saint-Sulpice and jotted down everything he saw. His observations became a book called An Attempt to Exhaust a Place in Paris , in which he sought to capture the small details that often elude us: “that whi... See more
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Jenna Guarascio added 25d ago
A reminder that while we assess culture we are also culture. The simple act of living is the participation.
- the practice of paying close attention.
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what we do
- By filming the park, Asya hopes to “capture the slow and leisurely rot of a day.”
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Jenna Guarascio added 25d ago
- So anthropology grounds Asya. At the same time, the novel gestures to the discipline’s troubled past, with its colonial underpinnings and tendency to exploit, extract, and other its subjects.
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Jenna Guarascio added 25d ago
How we need to interrogate what we do