About Adam Bobeck

Adam Bobeck received his PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD was entitled “Object-Oriented ʿAzâdâri: Ontology and Ritual Theory”.
Adam Bobeck received his PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD was entitled “Object-Oriented ʿAzâdâri: Ontology and Ritual Theory”.

NBN Episodes hosted by Adam:

Jonas Tinius, "State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

March 15, 2024

State of the Arts

Jonas Tinius
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration (Cambridge UP, 2023) is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public …

Edyta Roszko, "Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam" (NIAS/U Hawaii Press 2021)

August 16, 2023

Fishers, Monks and Cadres

Edyta Roszko
Hosted by Adam Bobeck
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This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with s…

Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius, "Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum" (Archive Books, 2022)

July 18, 2023

Awkward Archives

Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius
Hosted by Adam Bobeck
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Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum (Archive Books, 2022) proposes a manual for academic teaching and learning contexts. An…

Michael Muhammad Knight, "Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism" (Fordham UP, 2023)

June 28, 2023

Sufi Deleuze

Michael Muhammad Knight
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“There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,” Deleuze and Guattari write in their final collaboration, What Is Philosophy? Their claim…

Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, "Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology" (Polity Press, 2023)

June 10, 2023

Objects Untimely

Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore
Hosted by Adam Bobeck
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Objects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. That is the central thesis of this book by the philosopher Graham Harman and the arch…

Graham Harman, "The Graham Harman Reader" (Zero Books, 2023)

April 18, 2023

The Graham Harman Reader

Graham Harman, Jon Cogburn, and Niki Young
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

'Overcoming the war of religion between analytics and continentals with a brand-new metaphysical insight, Graham Harman has restored to philosophy its…

Lisa M. Johnson and Rosemary A. Joyce, "Materializing Ritual Practices" (U Colorado Press, 2022)

March 5, 2023

Materializing Ritual Practices

Lisa M. Johnson and Rosemary A. Joyce
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

Materializing Ritual Practices (U Colorado Press, 2022) explores the deep history of ritual practice in Mexico and Central America and the ways interd…

Siv B. Lie, "Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

January 4, 2023

Django Generations

Siv B. Lie
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France (U Chicago Press, 2021) shows how relationships between racial identit…

Amal Sachedina, "Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman" (Cornell UP, 2021)

December 17, 2022

Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern

Amal Sachedina
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman (Cornell UP, 2021) explores how and why heritage has emerged as…

Edmund Hayes, "Agents of the Hidden Imam: Forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

December 3, 2022

Agents of the Hidden Imam

Edmund Hayes
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

In 874 CE, the eleventh Imam died, and the Imami community splintered. The institutions of the Imamate were maintained by the dead Imam's agents, who …

Hilan Bensusan, "Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

November 29, 2022

Indexicalism

Hilan Bensusan
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

In Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox (Edinburgh UP, 2021), Hilan Bensusan clarifies the logic and structure of an essentially situated and inde…

Graham Harman, "Architecture and Objects" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

November 4, 2022

Architecture and Objects

Graham Harman
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

Object-oriented ontology has become increasingly popular among architectural theorists and practitioners in recent years. Architecture and Objects (U …

Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki, "Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying" (Berghahn Books, 2021)

October 11, 2022

Beyond the Veil

Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki's edited volume Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies…

C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)

October 4, 2022

Games

C. Thi Nguyen
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game designe…

Yarimar Bonilla ed. et al., "Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader" (Duke UP, 2021)

September 23, 2022

Trouillot Remixed

Yarimar Bonilla, Greg Beckett, and Mayanthi L. Fernando
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, pos…

Charles William Johns, "Object Oriented Dialectics: Hegel, Heidegger, Harman" (Mimesis International, 2022)

September 15, 2022

Object Oriented Dialectics

Charles William Johns
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In Object Oriented Dialectics: Hegel, Heidegger, Harman (Mimesis, 2022), Johns, in the style of Derrida, looks over the absence or spectre of the sign…

Kareem Rabie, "Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank" (Duke UP, 2021)

August 26, 2022

Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited

Kareem Rabie
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed…

Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor, "Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity" (Routledge, 2020)

August 3, 2022

Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity

Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (Routledge, 2020) brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self. Tema Milstein and…

Alan John Ainsworth, "Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960" (Intellect, 2022)

August 1, 2022

Sight Readings

Alan John Ainsworth
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Alan John Ainsworth's book Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960 (Intellect, 2022) explores the work of a wide range of American …

Elsa L. Fan, "Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

July 4, 2022

Commodities of Care

Elsa L. Fan
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China (U Minnesota Press, 2021) examines the unanticipated effects of global health interventions,…

Stan BH Tan-Tangbau et al., "Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội: Improvisations Between Worlds" (Routledge, 2022)

June 8, 2022

Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội

Stan BH Tan-Tangbau, Lưu Quang Minh, and Quyền Thiện Đắc
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội: Improvisations between Worlds (Routledge, 2022) examines the germination and growth of jazz under communist rule—perceived a…

Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

June 8, 2022

The Jazz Masters

Peter C. Zimmerman
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The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight (UP of Mississippi, 2021) is a celebration of jazz and the men and women who created and transformed it.…

Heather Davis, "Plastic Matter" (Duke UP, 2022)

May 31, 2022

Plastic Matter

Heather Davis
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we bre…

Mikkel Bunkenborg et al., "Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization" (Cornell UP, 2022)

May 9, 2022

Collaborative Damage

Mikkel Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, and Morten Axel Pedersen
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization (Cornell UP, 2022) is an experimental ethnography of Chinese globalization …