Pavel Borecký Institute Of Social Anthropology, University Of Bern.
DOI: 10.12835/ve2016.2-0069
Abstract
Building upon the audiovisual project on a Tallinn shopping
mall, the article outlines the conceptual resources vital to
the ethico-aesthetic agenda of sensory ethnography, and
links them with the ambitions of an emerging post-humanist
cinema. By doing so it tells the story of a personal struggle
for the embodiment of a non-representative and object
oriented stance and challenges the main premises of human
centered observational filmmaking style. Finally, the article
argues that by provoking the experience of disorientation
and more-than-human closeness, sensory ethnography can
contribute to the birth of a post-human awareness and an
ontological reconstitution of our being-in-the-world in the
Anthropocene era.
Keywords
Visual anthropology; sensory ethnography; observational cinema; atmosphere; perspective; immersion; empathy; more-than-human; speculative realism; non-representative theory.
