Ongoing class discussion and additional material by Sonja Moghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c en-us 2021-02-23 15:35:03 UTC 2025-10-26 19:23:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9e9.png Talk on Futurability by Franco Bifo Berardi sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1232009363 2021-02-23 15:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1232009363 Audio of the short story "The ones who walk away from Omelas" by Ursula Le Guin, cited in Povinelli 2008 sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1232034462 2021-02-23 15:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1232034462 Modernity and Speed: Talk by Sociologist Hartmut Rosa on Acceleration sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1232044297 2021-02-23 15:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1232044297 Course Program sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1240463972 2021-02-25 11:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1240463972 Lot's of theory, hang in there! sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1242016430 You are struggling with the heavy theoretical load of this week's compulsory reading? . Don't worry, there will be time for questions and discussion.

Here is some extra audio and video material that may help you understand how these two texts connect]]> 2021-02-25 16:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1242016430 Writing a field diary - any issues? sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1242038406 2021-02-25 16:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1242038406 Full video on Waiting sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1258514401 2021-03-02 14:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1258514401 A great talk explaining the interference between past, present and future through quanten physics sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1258599148 2021-03-02 14:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1258599148 Speed and Synchronicity sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1263277225 2021-03-03 12:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1263277225 Multiplicity and Entanglement sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1263278251 2021-03-03 12:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1263278251 Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters, 1565 sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1282430204 2021-03-08 14:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1282430204 About 3-dimensional non-Euclidian conceptions of time (and space) sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1288647442 2021-03-09 16:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1288647442 Temporalities of the future: knowledge and affect sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1288658216 2021-03-09 16:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1288658216 Painting: Morning of the Motherland, Fyodor Shurpin, 1948 sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1289508588 The painting exemplifies the futural aspect of Ssorin-Chaikov's article: 

The painting "depicts a mature and distinguished Stalin with graying hair, seasoned by the trials of war. He stands in a field at daybreak bathed in sunlight and dressed in a resplendent white uniform, his coat draped casually over one arm. Behind him, the sprawling landscape bears witness to his achievements: smoke billows from factory chimneys, transmission towers string electrical wires into the countryside, and agricultural machinery drudges industriously across the freshly plowed land. This leader, however, is not content with merely surveying his previous successes. His gaze extends beyond the picture frame and into the direction of the morning sunlight. Shurpin’s image, therefore, not only celebrates industrialization, electrification, and collectivization, but also alludes to the country’s continued development, promising an even brighter future for the Soviet people." 
Source: https://postwar.hausderkunst.de/en/artworks-artists/artworks/the-morning-of-our-motherland-der-morgen-unseres-vaterlandes ]]> 2021-03-09 19:20:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1289508588 Starting here with first insights into affect theory sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1293126201 2021-03-10 14:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1293126201 Recent explaination of the yield curve, helps understand Zaloom's piece. sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1308153170 2021-03-14 21:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1308153170 Future and Agency sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1322221873 2021-03-17 18:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1322221873 Article by Felix Ringel "Coronavirus: how the pandemic has changed our perception of time" sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1322223706 2021-03-17 18:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1322223706 Future orientations in times of COVID 19 sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1322234534 2021-03-17 18:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1322234534 If you are curious about comparing pandemic responses across the world sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1322400958 2021-03-17 19:11:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1322400958 What COVID vaccination campaign may say about the global present past and future. sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1322492981 2021-03-17 19:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1322492981 Interview with Andrew Lakoff about COVID 19, May 2020 sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1331283700 2021-03-19 19:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1331283700 Post-Covid Fantasies sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1347423260 Blog posts of ethnographic fiction that enact future tricking https://americanethnologist.org/features/pandemic-diaries/post-covid-fantasies]]> 2021-03-24 11:57:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1347423260 sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1347438224 2021-03-24 12:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1347438224 Personal post-pandemic futurisms sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1347637484 2021-03-24 12:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1347637484 Andrew Lakoff on preparedness and Covid sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1349887940 2021-03-24 19:53:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1349887940 Bifo: Let's imagine the virus as the starting point for possibilities that were unthinkable before sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1352242261 2021-03-25 11:21:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1352242261 Sun Ra movie 1974 "The Space is the Place": Afrofuturism as future-tricking sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1367902464 2021-03-30 13:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1367902464 Modern time of capitalism and its institutions sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1367919789 2021-03-30 13:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1367919789 Laura Bear explaining her research on austerity in North-Eastern India sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1367922207 2021-03-30 13:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1367922207 Social Movements sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1367927096 2021-03-30 13:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1367927096 Collective volume for further reading on magic and capitalism sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1367931724 2021-03-30 13:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1367931724 Link to predictive comic from 1997 sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1368316259 2021-03-30 14:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1368316259 The Postcolony sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1404531909 2021-04-11 16:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1404531909 Defining Prefigurative Politics sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1404548023 2021-04-11 17:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1404548023 Activist critique of prefiguration sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1404575724 2021-04-11 17:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1404575724 Some examples of shamanism in business corporations sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1407290976 https://shamanicceo.com/the-shamanic-ceo/

https://www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2019/07/sarah-negus-a-modern-day-shaman-for-the-corporate-world/

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/michael-ventura-ceo-and-shaman-believes-success-begins-with-empathy/]]> 2021-04-12 13:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1407290976 What is more useful for strengthening environmental activism in Switzerland? Prefiguration or figuration? sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1424804911 2021-04-16 10:30:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1424804911 What is modernization theory? sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1437132173 2021-04-20 10:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1437132173 Migration sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1437134687 2021-04-20 10:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1437134687 Occupy Wallstreet Video sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1437407499 2021-04-20 11:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1437407499 A poem for Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, who started the Volta Delta Project sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1438689804 2021-04-20 16:12:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1438689804 PROF.DR.SHAHRAM KHOSRAVI "THE UNVISIBLE" raphaelahelfenstein1 https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1462970919 2021-04-27 06:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1462970919 Thinking non-linearity with science-fiction: Christopher Nolan's film Tenet sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1468197717 2021-04-28 09:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1468197717 Waiting in Moria (in German) sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1472795903 2021-04-29 08:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1472795903 Uncanny Danger and Outer space sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1472800519 2021-04-29 08:50:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1472800519 Actual Disasters and Crisis, Human and Anthropocenic sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1472803488 2021-04-29 08:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1472803488 Raphaela's link, here it works sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1486716759 2021-05-03 18:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1486716759 Many films represent the fear of alien abduction. This is a very famous one sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1486776449 2021-05-03 18:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1486776449 A podcast with Lepselter about the alien abduction story of Barney and Betty Hill sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1498357851 2021-05-06 14:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1498357851 5G and COVID conspiracy theories: a reaction to an uncanny danger? sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1498952289 2021-05-06 16:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1498952289 Book I mentioned in the class about storytelling for the future: Donna Haraway, 2016, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1512990749 Available here as PDFs.]]> 2021-05-11 12:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1512990749 Film by Yarimar Bonilla et al. on Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1520572348 2021-05-13 10:43:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1520572348 Actual disaster within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a disaster is never a singular event... sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1520648316 2021-05-13 11:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1520648316 Technologies of the Future sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1520651551 2021-05-13 11:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1520651551 The coronavirus pushed the sales of doomsday survival condos for the super rich sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1520677135 2021-05-13 12:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1520677135 A different approach: Futures anthropology, a talk by Sarah Pink sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1520684386 2021-05-13 12:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1520684386 Naomi Klein on disaster capitalism in the context of COVID 19 sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1522006537 2021-05-13 17:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1522006537 New forms of ethnographic collaborations: Film sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1575757275 "It was tomorrow" A film on migrants and the future in Italy by Alessandra d'Onofri

https://boap.uib.no/index.php/jaf/article/view/2757/2796]]> 2021-06-01 09:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1575757275 Multimodal anthropology sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1575764388 Interested in new ways of doing anthropology? There is multimodal anthropology, but search also for sensorial or non-representative anthropology]]> 2021-06-01 09:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1575764388 Conclusions sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1576009856 2021-06-01 12:16:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1576009856 A job that investigates the future sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1576010291 2021-06-01 12:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1576010291 A propos new ways of doing ethnography sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1576012039 A collaborative film with migrants and about the future in Italy

https://boap.uib.no/index.php/jaf/article/view/2757/2796]]> 2021-06-01 12:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1576012039 New ways of doing ethnography 2: Multimodal anthropology sonjamoghaddari https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1576015454 See also sensorial anthropology and non-representative anthropology]]> 2021-06-01 12:18:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sonjamoghaddari/2jk5w150pdj5qw6c/wish/1576015454