@article{ART003312595},
author={Son-Young Kim},
title={Anthropology of Everyday Life via Tsing and Latour: An Epistemological Turn with Artistic Practices},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2026},
volume={77},
pages={330-354}
TY - JOUR
AU - Son-Young Kim
TI - Anthropology of Everyday Life via Tsing and Latour: An Epistemological Turn with Artistic Practices
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2026
VL - 77
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 330
EP - 354
SN - 1229-0246
AB - This paper analyzes the notion of Latour’s “auto-description” and calls it everyday anthropology. It presents artworks by Chalmers and Bates as artistic practices of everyday anthropology. It ultimately demonstrates that everyday anthropology offers a way to shift our anthropocentric and human exceptionalism frameworks of thought in both theoretical and practical domains in order to overcome the climate crisis. Everyday anthropology is defined as an anthropology that makes our daily lives a field of research and explores the nonhumans surrounding us, often trivial and overlooked, yet constantly living and intertwined with humans. The anthropological methodologies of Tsing and Latour have some common points. First, they propose that noticing and attentiveness to everyday nonhuman entities serves as a starting point for a cognitive shift in an age of anxiety and fear brought about by the climate crisis. Second, they propose understanding the climate crisis not from the perspective of the entire planet or ecosystem, but through the differences in scales of time, space, and the nonhumans involved. Third, their anthropology is based on collaboration and cooperation. Finally, the art of noticing and auto-description help us realize that the world we live in is created by the mutual entanglement of humans and nonhumans, and furthermore, both humans and nonhumans are holobionts that coevolve with interdependent bonds.
KW - Anna Tsing;anthropology of everyday life;art of noticing;auto-description;Bruno Latour;Catherine Chalmers;Tarsh Bates
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Son-Young Kim. (2026). Anthropology of Everyday Life via Tsing and Latour: An Epistemological Turn with Artistic Practices. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 77, 330-354.
Son-Young Kim. 2026, "Anthropology of Everyday Life via Tsing and Latour: An Epistemological Turn with Artistic Practices", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.77, pp.330-354.
Son-Young Kim "Anthropology of Everyday Life via Tsing and Latour: An Epistemological Turn with Artistic Practices" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 77 pp.330-354 (2026) : 330.
Son-Young Kim. Anthropology of Everyday Life via Tsing and Latour: An Epistemological Turn with Artistic Practices. 2026; 77 330-354.
Son-Young Kim. "Anthropology of Everyday Life via Tsing and Latour: An Epistemological Turn with Artistic Practices" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 77(2026) : 330-354.
Son-Young Kim. Anthropology of Everyday Life via Tsing and Latour: An Epistemological Turn with Artistic Practices. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 77, 330-354.
Son-Young Kim. Anthropology of Everyday Life via Tsing and Latour: An Epistemological Turn with Artistic Practices. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2026; 77 330-354.
Son-Young Kim. Anthropology of Everyday Life via Tsing and Latour: An Epistemological Turn with Artistic Practices. 2026; 77 330-354.
Son-Young Kim. "Anthropology of Everyday Life via Tsing and Latour: An Epistemological Turn with Artistic Practices" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 77(2026) : 330-354.
