I am currently in the last stages of completing a book-length conversation with George Marcus, Paul Rabinow and Tobias Rees on designs for an anthropology of the contemporary. My plans in the near future include two books. One, tentatively titled What Becomes a Subject: Fieldwork in Ethics, critically develops Michel Foucault's analytics of the ethical domain through a series of bioethnographic portraits. The other, tentatively titled Spiritual Biopolitics geneaologically investigates the past, present and increasingly global future of the intersection of biopolitics and the sacralization of the body.
I am conducting long-term research into what might be thought of as the technocratization of the intellectual and the contemporary norms and forms of interdisciplinary and interscientific collaboration. One focus of this research is comprised of the actors and institutions engaged in the Greek branch of an EU-wide project in setting the parameters of social and technological planning known as FORESIGHT. Another is comprised of the actors and institutions engaged in the realization of s Collaborative Research center, slated to be up and running in 2010.
I continue to think and write more generally on power and the impetuses of its coalescence into the religious, the political, and the religio-political and the politico-religious.
Publications
Heterotopia (doc)
(with Jennifer A. Hamilton) “Sumptuary Kinship,” Anthropological
Quarterly 80:3 (Fall 2007): 533-59.(doc)
"Cavafy: Toward the Principles of a Transcultural Sociology of Minor
Literature." Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), v. 11/12
(2003/2004), pp. 40-65.
"Paranomics: On the Semiotics of Sacral Action," in Christian Ritual and
the Limits of Meaning, edited by Matthew Engelke and Matthew Tomlinson.
Oxford: Bergahn Books, 2006, pp. 189-209.
"Toward an Anthropology of Ethics: Foucault and the Pedagogies of
Autopoiesis," Representations 74 (Spring 2001) Special Issue: Philosophies
in Time, pp. 83-104.
(editor) Foucault, Michel. Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond
Roussel. Revised edition. London: Continuum, 2004.
(editor) The Ethics of Kinship: Ethnographic Inquiries. Lanham, MD: Roman
and Littlefield, 2001.
(editor) Essential Works of Michel Foucault, Volume 3: Power. Series
editor, Paul Rabinow. Introduction by Colin Gordon. New York: The New
Press, 2000.
(editor) Essential Works of Michel Foucault. Volume 2: Aesthetics,
Methodology, Epistemology. Series editor, Paul Rabinow. New York: The New
Press, 1998.
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