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It seems to me that our era is one of dispersion and disarticulation. This is not the same as the siloed domains of disciplinary society. These siloes are what has been undone. Cultural critique and also even transdisciplinarity have, I think, at times, been both symptomatic and catalyst of this wide-spread historical trend of dispersion. That doesn't mean we need to return to the siloes, it means we need to be smarter and more intentional in the way we coordinate our critiques and our collaborations.

It seems to me that what we need are new skills and expertise in what could be called "regrouping." This is a key dynamic of anthropology and ethnography since its very beginning. But it's even more apparent in contemporary, multi-sited/sighted ethnography: i.e. the intentionally constructed research designs inspired by Marcus's early work on the method.

I think we need theoretically informed coordinational capacities. Experimenting with new kinds of partnerships, organizational designs, production and flows of information.

I am looking to unsettle the way that I think about my work, my methods, my research questions and interests by listening to the thoughts, projects, thinking styles of other researchers. And I hope that my contributions can do a bit of the same for others. As part of that, I am also interested in forming collaborations, finding writing partners, and developing new research activities to get involved in. I am also interested in the lab as an opportunity to improve my ability to communicate my work to different kinds of audiences, with different backgrounds and at different levels of training.