Tag: Berlin
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Verbing the Urban
My latest paper, Verbing the Urban: Ethnographic Idealism and the Grammar of Becoming, currently under review, began with a simple but disorienting question: what if the city were not a collection of things, but a choreography of verbs? Drawing inspiration from Jorge Luis Borges’s Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, the essay develops what I call ethnographic idealism—a speculative method that…
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Watching Animals do Nothing
On March 12, 2025, I’ll present a talk titled “Watching Animals ‘Do Nothing’: Mapping Captivity’s Stillness in Berlin” as part of the panel I am co-hosting—“Multispecies Mapping: Diffracting the Critical through More-than-human Cartographies”—at STS-hub.de 2025: Diffracting the Critical in Berlin. This contribution is part of my recently finished research project “Infrastructuring Multispecies encounters: an ethnography of more-than-human urban assemblages in…