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If you tuned into #distribute2020 last week, you know it was amazing. I've been thinking--say we look ahead, imagine other conferences in the space of everyday life, what might make them even more engaging and artful? A speculative thread, please share your ideas too. 1/ 
We caught glimpses of domestic life: #PetsOfDistribute2020, #PlantsOfDistribute2020, #CompanionsOfDistribute2020. How to engage such textures of life more thoughtfully in a virtual meeting? How to build relations between a meeting portal and the local worlds beyond? 2/
People have companions, parents, kids. Imagine a channel for kin, as a component of a conference streaming platform, engaging others (pets and plants too??) with anthropological content, not necessarily original by source, but curated to resonate with the conference. 3/
Starting in a couple of minutes is the third screening of the "Echoes and Edges: Sonic Forms for Distributed Listening · Ecos y bordes: Formas sónicas para la escucha distribuida". We suggest using headphones to listen to this panel!! 🎧 #Distribute2020
Here's a textual thread from the first loop. But right now we'll sprinkle a few short audio clips for those not able to listen over the course of the next half hour.
From "Ordinary Schizophonia," part one of the Edges and Echoes panel at #Distribute2020 Give it a listen:
Second screening is happening ow! Alongside an object of observation, "narco-aesthetics [narco estética]" is a critical ethnographic approach to the citizen subjectivities often rendered invisible by journalist and scholarly accounts of drug trafficking.
#Distribute2020
#Distribute2020
And by "ow!", i'm (@backup_sandwich) referring to being struck by the hard-hitting anthropology papers at the panel! definitely wasn't a typo!
Narcoaesthetics lay in the landscape as a palimpsest, argues Sydney Silverstein - this path was once a runway, for the planes that collected coca paste
The stream is back up and running now! We've jumped right into loop 3 of the panel "Distribute(d) Unequally: Food Stories from Cape Breton Island · Distribución desigualdad: Historias de alimentos de la isla de Cape Breton" #Distribute2020
We apologize for the disruption and want to remind everyone that all panels from the conference will remain accessible on the website after today. We encourage you to catch what we've missed! I (@scott_a_ross) will pick up tweeting the supergroup from here. #Distribute2020
This panel featured @LeighPotvin, Erna MacLeod, and Emma Jerrot discussing food research in rural Cape Breton Island, looking at inequitable distribution of wealth and resources in Canada and food activism as a response, including the Good Food Bus. #Distribute2020
In 10 minutes on Saturday, Day 3! "Re/Distribute: Three Radical Economists on (Post)Apartheid"
This panel also marks the beginning of the last loop of #Distribute2020!!!
Follow below from some livetweets on this short film by me, @afleisch_anthro!
This panel also marks the beginning of the last loop of #Distribute2020!!!
Follow below from some livetweets on this short film by me, @afleisch_anthro!
We're off!
Distribution/re-distribution presupposes something exists that can be appropriated—like an artifact (rather than a commodity).
The thing or commodity or artifact is produced socially but appropriated individually! But there's nothing naturally private about it!
Distribution/re-distribution presupposes something exists that can be appropriated—like an artifact (rather than a commodity).
The thing or commodity or artifact is produced socially but appropriated individually! But there's nothing naturally private about it!
The film then discusses the making of a few (left) economists in the South African post-apartheid context
"The video is an invitation to participate in the Yolnu art of connection. It is a remix of a book, which was a remix of an exhibition, which was a remix of a series of small artworks made by remixing the photographs of our everyday lives in the mobile phones we use to connect"
Show us your #Distribute2020 setup!
@AndreaMuehleba1 @mayanthileilani @arjshankar @GabrielDattatre - We all want a behind the scenes look at your 24/7 participation situation.
#AnthroTwitter #VirtualConference @SocietyVisAnth
@AndreaMuehleba1 @mayanthileilani @arjshankar @GabrielDattatre - We all want a behind the scenes look at your 24/7 participation situation.
#AnthroTwitter #VirtualConference @SocietyVisAnth
The last panel in the Day 3 #SuperGroup begins in a few minutes!
Stay tuned #Distribute2020 and stick around for discussion in the #VirtualHallway.
Stay tuned #Distribute2020 and stick around for discussion in the #VirtualHallway.
Up first, @Janine_PSantos discusses telecommunications, digitalisation, hacking, and the maker movement in Togo. Then @NataliaBuier presents on high-speed rails in Spain in the 90s. @AlexandraOanca then takes a historical approach to trams in Brussels #Distribute2020
Santos situates the Togolese imaginary of Lomé's digital future within its present economic, logistical ecosystem. But there is a lack of equitable justice in connectivity across the country. #Distribute2020
From the #Distribute2020 #ChileNode, "'Hasta que la dignidad se haga costumbre': El despertar de Chile"
· "'Until Dignity becomes a Habit': The Awakening of Chile"
Starting in 5 mins!
Learn more about their node here: distribute2020nodechile.wordpress.com
· "'Until Dignity becomes a Habit': The Awakening of Chile"
Starting in 5 mins!
Learn more about their node here: distribute2020nodechile.wordpress.com
"En este nodo encontrarás testimonios de todo este proceso, voces que, a partir de sus subjetividades, nos hablan de experiencias colectivas." - distribute2020nodechile.wordpress.com/blog-2/
#Distribute2020 #ChileNode
#Distribute2020 #ChileNode
You can find the testimonials featured in this #Distribute2020 panel on the #ChileNode blog: distribute2020nodechile.wordpress.com/testimonios-te…
En este archivo encuentras diversas experiencias y visiones del estallido social que comenzó el 18 de Octubre de 2019.
Fotografía de Marcela Martínez @mazurquica
En este archivo encuentras diversas experiencias y visiones del estallido social que comenzó el 18 de Octubre de 2019.
Fotografía de Marcela Martínez @mazurquica
☀️MORNING AFTER☀️
1PM Havana Time
Sunday, May 10th
Join the conference organizers–Paul Christians, @GabrielDattatre, @mayanthileilani, @AndreaMuehleba1, & @arjshankar–for a discussion about #Distribute2020 and the future of #VirtualConferencing. Moderated by @anandspandian.
1PM Havana Time
Sunday, May 10th
Join the conference organizers–Paul Christians, @GabrielDattatre, @mayanthileilani, @AndreaMuehleba1, & @arjshankar–for a discussion about #Distribute2020 and the future of #VirtualConferencing. Moderated by @anandspandian.
For folks who are still operating on #Distribute2020 time:
13:00 Havana time (UTC -4)
is 17:00 Dakar time (UTC)
is 22:00 Lahore time (UTC +5)
13:00 Havana time (UTC -4)
is 17:00 Dakar time (UTC)
is 22:00 Lahore time (UTC +5)
@AndreaMuehleba1 talking about the purpose of the #Distribute2020 #nodes pre-pandemic & the desire to solicit and showcase content from these nodes. We're so grateful to the #GreekNode, #DelhiNode, #ChileNode, #SAnode #EcuadorNode, etc for all of their organizing & contributions!
The last panel of Day 2, loop 3 is about to go live! Stay tuned for more info about the day 3 program!
#Distribute2020
#Distribute2020
Starting us off for this panel this first presenter situates us into their family history before moving us to how radio stations were situated in the landscape before they became less prominent.
What was the first Kurdish sound? This presenter moves into a genealogy of music by Kurdish communities.
Thus, radio brought some opportunity for these communities to record themselves.
Thus, radio brought some opportunity for these communities to record themselves.
coming up in 10 mins on our final loop! #Distribute2020
How are we performing as anthropologists for each other? What vulnerabilities do we hide or display as a part of that performance? #Distribute2020
Loving the collaboration fostered by interweaving research presentation. The concepts we draw upon in our individual work all take on their own textures in the various contexts we are embedded in. Seeing them come back together in these visual conversations is 🔥 #Distribute2020
Alright alright, #Distribute2020
Loop 3, the final loop for May 8th, will go live in 5 minutes, starting with "Performances of Public Anthropology" · "Performances de antropología pública"
Missed all 3 loops? Never fear, you can watch all the panels 'on demand' on the website.
Loop 3, the final loop for May 8th, will go live in 5 minutes, starting with "Performances of Public Anthropology" · "Performances de antropología pública"
Missed all 3 loops? Never fear, you can watch all the panels 'on demand' on the website.
Penelope Papailias, drawing on their work creating games 'death cafes', says that experimental methods shouldn't just be added to ethnographic toolkits - to experiment is to design a public encounter among non-experts, rather than just representing data
#Distribute2020
#Distribute2020
The loop 2 stream of our #SuperGroup begins in 10 minutes!
"It is my observation that members of non-western societies have agency, ways of analyzing the changes brought by globalization, they have their own strategies for reacting to these changes to experience minimum disruption" - Chidi Ugwu talking about local healers & his research
Up next we have "Distributed Multimodalities: Ethnographic Experiments in Memory and Performance" ·
"Multimodalidades distribuidas: Experimentos etnográficos en memoria y performance"
w/ @trgenovese @alchemyburns @visual_gonthros @fukudapero @nasrat @js_rubin
#Distribute2020
"Multimodalidades distribuidas: Experimentos etnográficos en memoria y performance"
w/ @trgenovese @alchemyburns @visual_gonthros @fukudapero @nasrat @js_rubin
#Distribute2020
"Slowly I begin the process of transformation... I'm not sure what the gathering of anthropologists will make of me or my performance in what I am calling #Dragthropology" - paraphrase of @nasrat
#Distribute2020
#Distribute2020
"With performance of living history, these reeneactors conduct public and private reverent rituals that perform a continuity of distributed trans-historical solidarity in order to evoke and honour the memory of their fictive kin political ancestors" - @trgenovese
#Distribute2020
#Distribute2020
Up next we have the highly anticipated #Distribute2020 panel "For an Anthropology of Fascism"
· "Por una antropología del fascismo"
@SocietyVisAnth @culanth
· "Por una antropología del fascismo"
@SocietyVisAnth @culanth
.@scott_a_ross here to live-tweet the 1st showing of this panel. It will feature anthropologists, activists, and artists discussing studies, research, and practices concerning the contemporary emergence of political expressions related to fascism and anti-fascism. #Distribute2020
Starting now! "For an Anthropology of Fascism" / "Por una antropología del fascismo" #Distribute2020 distribute.utoronto.ca/stream/
Next-up at #Distribute2020: “Accessing Audial Media” ft. Andrea Bohman, Benjamin Tausig, @kgoldschmitt, and Dave Novak!
A little warm-up for a panel that takes us across genres of music, space & time:
What are y’all jamming to? Drop your fave songs, artist, & albums!
A little warm-up for a panel that takes us across genres of music, space & time:
What are y’all jamming to? Drop your fave songs, artist, & albums!
A prefacing bit about the panel itself:
Popular music, whether as part of global recording industries or within local networks of circulation, raise not only questions of ownership, but also crucial questions about access.
Popular music, whether as part of global recording industries or within local networks of circulation, raise not only questions of ownership, but also crucial questions about access.
Some questions the panelists position to help ground us as we follow along on this last loop:
What does one access when hearing songs?
When buying records?
When copying tapes?
When streaming protest performances?
What does one access when hearing songs?
When buying records?
When copying tapes?
When streaming protest performances?
The final loop for Thursday begins! @afleisch_anthro here, going to livetweet "World Without Clouds: An Anthropological Experiment" below!
Elizabeth Chin's keynote is hilarious! Opens with a parody of Zoom teaching and meetings and lief in isolation! 😆
We've got one yoga-obsessed person, someone sewing masks, who can't mute their sewing machine and themselves, one morose person still in bed and a supportive but clueless facilitator type talking productivity! I (@afleisch_anthro) am losing it over here hahahaha
Are you ready for the loop 2 showing of this panel?
Be sure to stick around in the zoom virtual hallway for questions and discussion afterwards.
#Distribute2020 @SocietyVisAnth
Be sure to stick around in the zoom virtual hallway for questions and discussion afterwards.
#Distribute2020 @SocietyVisAnth
First up, Carlo Caduff of King’s College, who studied pandemic disease for 10 years, culminating in his book “The Pandemic Perhaps”! Today, everything has become a “perhaps” or “possible”—anything it possible...
Caduff will speak on how we as anthropologists might respond to this pandemic. In ways we can barely imagine rn, *this pandemic will hold us for decades*—unforeseeable consequences.
May 7, Loop 2:
This #Distribute2020 panel is going live for the second time just in 10 minutes from now!
Join us and stick around in the Zoom virtual hallway after for some discussion!
@SocietyVisAnth
This #Distribute2020 panel is going live for the second time just in 10 minutes from now!
Join us and stick around in the Zoom virtual hallway after for some discussion!
@SocietyVisAnth
@SocietyVisAnth Still from Edgar Gonzalez's presentation, discussing disability in Mexico and art-based strategies of illustrating to people that disability is not an essential characteristic of people, but is built into urban forms
#Distribute2020
#Distribute2020
Benjamín Mayer is now up in
(Re)distribuir el conocimiento: Pendientes de la “discapacidad”/ · (Re)distribute Knowledge: Contours of "disability", talking about disability and 'blind photography'
#Distribute2020
(Re)distribuir el conocimiento: Pendientes de la “discapacidad”/ · (Re)distribute Knowledge: Contours of "disability", talking about disability and 'blind photography'
#Distribute2020
#Distribute2020 presents "(Re)distribuir el conocimiento: Pendientes de la 'discapacidad'"
· (Re)distribute Knowledge: Contours of 'Disability'"
@kaleidos_ec @udecuenca @FLACSOec
@SocietyVisAnth
· (Re)distribute Knowledge: Contours of 'Disability'"
@kaleidos_ec @udecuenca @FLACSOec
@SocietyVisAnth
Understanding disability as fundamental aspect of being human, the panelists argue that "disability can be a place from which to think about the world"
#Distribute2020
#Distribute2020
Get ready for the next #Distribute2020 panel,
"Urban (Re)Distributions: Power, Affect, and the Built Environment"
· "(Re)distribuciones urbanas: Poder, afecto y entorno construido"
@hemanginigupta @nick_kawa @_mattbarlow
"Urban (Re)Distributions: Power, Affect, and the Built Environment"
· "(Re)distribuciones urbanas: Poder, afecto y entorno construido"
@hemanginigupta @nick_kawa @_mattbarlow
@mayanthileilani asks @_mattbarlow about scale: "Can you place your argument about the relationship between Hindu nationalism and mega infrastructure & whether it's particular to a postcolonial moment in India or is it transferable to other postcolonial contexts?" #Distribute2020
@nick_kawa discussing the "excess" of the audio-visual quality of these panels: "We're playing with that, how can we play with the excesses of meaning within our collaborations and our audio-visual content?
#Distribute2020
#Distribute2020
The next #Distribute2020 panel begins in 20 ish minutes -
"(In)congruences: A Meditation on Ethnography in Four Senses" · "(In)congruencias: Una meditación sobre etnografía en cuatro sentidos"
@MariangelaMihai
@dadadocot
"(In)congruences: A Meditation on Ethnography in Four Senses" · "(In)congruencias: Una meditación sobre etnografía en cuatro sentidos"
@MariangelaMihai
@dadadocot
"A meditation on ethnography in four senses, this visual anthology gestures toward the potential & the limits of our touching, hearing, scenting, and seeing as scholars-artists, as well as the ways in which we are simultaneously touched, heard, scented, and seen."#Distribute2020
In the muslim society of Thailand's deep south "the sheep actually say a lot about gender relations," explains Samak Kosem at the beginning of his short film "Nonhuman Ethnography" #Distribute2020
Don't forget, #distribute2020 conference-goers - you can continue conversation about panels, keynotes, and events in La Plaza, in the virtual zoom hallways (check stream for passwords), and right here on twitter!!
Over twenty people are in the zoom hallway conversation with panelists from the World Without Clouds experimental film. Meeting ID and password is on the stream page now. Join us for a Q&A! #Distribute2020
"We wanted to do something between parable and parody" - @stevenconde4 responds to @anandspandian's question about the role of humor in the film. #Distribute2020
