Porous becomings : anthropological engagements with Michel Serres edited by Andreas Bandak and Daniel M. Knight.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Andreas Bandak and Daniel M. Knight -- Angel hair anthropology with Michel Serres / Andreas Bandak and Daniel M. Knight -- Three tales on the arts of entrapment : natural contracts, melodic contaminations, and spiderweb anthropologies / Alberto Corsín Jiménez -- Under the sign of Hermes : transgression, the trickster, and natural justice / Michael Jackson -- Keeping to oneself : hospitality and the magical hoard in the Balga of Jordan / Andrew Shryock -- Postscript : connective tissue / Andrew Shryock -- Serres, the sea, the human, and anthropology / Celia Lowe -- Variations of bodies in motion and relation / Elizabeth A. Povinelli -- When war percolates : on topologies of earthly violence in a planetary age / David Henig -- Feeling safe in a panbiotic world / Steven D. Brown -- Michel Serres and Gregory Bateson : implicit dialogue about a recognitive epistemology of nature / Arpad Szakolczai -- Angelology / Tom Boylston -- Forms of proximity / Stavroula Pipyrou -- Comedic transubstantiation : the Hermesian paradox of being funny among stand-up comics in New York City / Morten Nielsen -- Michel Serres, wisdom, anthropology / Matei Candea -- Afterword: conversations with Jane Bennett / Jane Bennett, Andreas Bandak, and Daniel M. Knight.

"Porous Becomings brings anthropology into conversation with the late French philosopher Michel Serres (1930-2019). Serres championed an understanding of the human condition that transcended space, time, and episteme. Breaking free from disciplinary dogmas, Serres' reflections on science, culture, technology, art, and religion have proved foundational to scholars across the humanities. The editors note the long anthropological engagement with Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze, and Isabelle Stengers, work which disrupts conventional bounded thinking. They call for a similar conversation with Serres and gather anthropologists, including Elizabeth Povinelli and Michael Jackson, working in that idiom. The book concludes with a conversation between the editors and Jane Bennett, who has made significant use of Serres in her own work. Porous Becomings is intended to be more than simply the insertion of another French philosopher into the anthropological debate, instead providing critical insight into the theoretical and methodological apparatus of the discipline itself, allowing us to better confront a world in entangled polycrisis"--