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About Adam Bobeck
Adam Bobeck received his PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Leipzig. His PhD was entitled “Object-Oriented ʿAzâdâri: Ontology and Ritual Theory”.NBN Episodes hosted by Adam:
September 6, 2024
Unorthodox Kin
Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging (U California Press, 2017) is a lively, readable exploration of "chosen" ident…
April 10, 2024
Hegel and Speculative Realism
Hegel and Speculative Realism (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) has two main objectives. Firstly, to assess the speculative realist formulations of the real …
March 15, 2024
State of the Arts
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 …
August 16, 2023
Fishers, Monks and Cadres
This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with s…
July 18, 2023
Awkward Archives
Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum (Archive Books, 2022) proposes a manual for academic teaching and learning contexts. An…
June 28, 2023
Sufi Deleuze
“There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,” Deleuze and Guattari write in their final collaboration, What Is Philosophy? Their claim…
June 10, 2023
Objects Untimely
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…
April 18, 2023
The Graham Harman Reader
'Overcoming the war of religion between analytics and continentals with a brand-new metaphysical insight, Graham Harman has restored to philosophy its…
March 5, 2023
Materializing Ritual Practices
Materializing Ritual Practices (U Colorado Press, 2022) explores the deep history of ritual practice in Mexico and Central America and the ways interd…
January 4, 2023
Django Generations
Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France (U Chicago Press, 2021) shows how relationships between racial identit…
December 17, 2022
Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern
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…
December 3, 2022
Agents of the Hidden Imam
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 …
November 29, 2022
Indexicalism
In Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox (Edinburgh UP, 2021), Hilan Bensusan clarifies the logic and structure of an essentially situated and inde…
November 4, 2022
Architecture and Objects
Object-oriented ontology has become increasingly popular among architectural theorists and practitioners in recent years. Architecture and Objects (U …
October 11, 2022
Beyond the Veil
Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki's edited volume Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies…
October 4, 2022
Games
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…
September 23, 2022
Trouillot Remixed
Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, pos…
September 15, 2022
Object Oriented Dialectics
In Object Oriented Dialectics: Hegel, Heidegger, Harman (Mimesis, 2022), Johns, in the style of Derrida, looks over the absence or spectre of the sign…
August 26, 2022
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited
In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed…
August 3, 2022
Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity
The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (Routledge, 2020) brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self. Tema Milstein and…
August 1, 2022
Sight Readings
Alan John Ainsworth's book Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960 (Intellect, 2022) explores the work of a wide range of American …
July 4, 2022
Commodities of Care
Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China (U Minnesota Press, 2021) examines the unanticipated effects of global health interventions,…
June 8, 2022
The Jazz Masters
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.…
June 8, 2022
Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội
Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội: Improvisations between Worlds (Routledge, 2022) examines the germination and growth of jazz under communist rule—perceived a…