Introduction to “Field Theory”

• Published in: Postmodern culture Vol. 33; no. 1
• Main Author: Diamanti, Jeff
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.09.2022
• Subjects: Anthropology; Archives & records; Biology; Epistemology; Ethics; Exegesis & hermeneutics; Field study; Humanities; Infrastructure; Media studies; Philosophy; Postmodernism; Reading comprehension; Semiotics

The normative impulse to particularize theory in concert with the animate ecologies, polyphonic voice, and vernaculars of a field requires an immersive and often creative research ethic that attends to what in philosophical biology has long been understood as the blurred distinction between organism...