Tobias Rees is Reid Hoffman Professor at the New School of Social Research, a director of the Los Angeles-based Berggruen Institute, and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is the coauthor of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Plastic Reason: An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms.

• what if . . .  ixacknowledgments  xiintroduction. all of it  11. on anthropology (free from ethnos)  7anthropology and philosophy (differently)  17philosophy/Philosophy  25thought/abstract, thought/concrete (the problem with modernism)  28escaping (the already thought and known)  322. "of" the human (after "the human")  34cataloguing  45antihumanism  49a disregard for theory  52no ontology  553. on fieldwork (itself)  70assemblages (or how to study difference in time?)  84not history  93epochal (no more)  954. on the actual (rather than the emergent)  97the new/different (of movement/in terms of movement)  108why and to what end ends (philosophy, politics, poetry)  1105. coda (a dictionary of anthropological common places)  113one last question  118notes  121bibliography  151index  169

Tobias Rees is Reid Hoffman Professor at the New School of Social Research, a director of the Los Angeles-based Berggruen Institute, and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is the coauthor of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Plastic Reason: An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms.

• what if . . .  ixacknowledgments  xiintroduction. all of it  11. on anthropology (free from ethnos)  7anthropology and philosophy (differently)  17philosophy/Philosophy  25thought/abstract, thought/concrete (the problem with modernism)  28escaping (the already thought and known)  322. "of" the human (after "the human")  34cataloguing  45antihumanism  49a disregard for theory  52no ontology  553. on fieldwork (itself)  70assemblages (or how to study difference in time?)  84not history  93epochal (no more)  954. on the actual (rather than the emergent)  97the new/different (of movement/in terms of movement)  108why and to what end ends (philosophy, politics, poetry)  1105. coda (a dictionary of anthropological common places)  113one last question  118notes  121bibliography  151index  169

Tobias Rees is Reid Hoffman Professor at the New School of Social Research, a director of the Los Angeles-based Berggruen Institute, and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is the coauthor of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Plastic Reason: An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms.

• what if . . .  ixacknowledgments  xiintroduction. all of it  11. on anthropology (free from ethnos)  7anthropology and philosophy (differently)  17philosophy/Philosophy  25thought/abstract, thought/concrete (the problem with modernism)  28escaping (the already thought and known)  322. "of" the human (after "the human")  34cataloguing  45antihumanism  49a disregard for theory  52no ontology  553. on fieldwork (itself)  70assemblages (or how to study difference in time?)  84not history  93epochal (no more)  954. on the actual (rather than the emergent)  97the new/different (of movement/in terms of movement)  108why and to what end ends (philosophy, politics, poetry)  1105. coda (a dictionary of anthropological common places)  113one last question  118notes  121bibliography  151index  169