mitchellmemo1

human/humanness/ etc.
 * Topical Area || Data Sets || Social Theoretical Questions? || Why Now? || How Prepared? || Bias? || Fields of Work? || Funders? ||
 * -Concept/notion/idea of

-Studied through the growing list of animal exceptions to arrive at the norm. || -Interviews/Ethnography/ Discourse || -Current Functioning of anthropological machine (Agamben) -Construction of "normal and abnormal" (Foucault and Canguilhem) -Interaction of decision on exception as constituting the norm (Schmitt) -Biological Citizenship? (Rose) -Questions of power in what counts: -Both within/between disciplines and larger societal/political relationships. || -"Century of biology" -Classificatory breakdown due to scientific advances/practices/etc. -Wide theoretical interest (outside of myself, that is) -New workings of the "anthropological machine?" || -Believe I have a theoretical foundation with which to work. -Need access -Need further methodological training -Need to explore field sites || -Vegan...but can the way I ask my question avoid bias?...I'm certainly avoiding any kind of normative foundation. || -Animal Studies -Sociology -Anthropology -Cultural Studies || -NSF ||

-Studied through "modern" concept formation in the various life and human science disciplines...but again through animals contra human (i.e. how were the human sciences created from/on the basis of natural history) || -Historical Documents || -"Modern" creation of human from animal (modern anthropological machine). || -Can we understand "post-human" without fully appreciating the modern concept of "human?" -Theoretical interest || -Lack historical training -Theoretical foundation -Field sites || -" || -Animal Studies -History -Cultural Studies || -NSF ||

-This time not animals, but bodies and "things" (like cells...although we could include animals growing human body parts in here) || -Interviews/Ethnography/Discourse || -What different fields/levels find "useful" (and therefore counting more) -Effects of being caught between categories (on the subjects) -Norm formation (as above) || -Shift in sovereignty over inclusion/exclusion from the state to experts (new citizenship project) -Theoretical interest || -Theoretical foundation -Need access -Need methodological training -Field sites ||  || -Cultural Studies -Anthropology -Sociology || -NSF -NIH? ||