{"id":41618,"date":"2022-11-02T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/prospections\/impossible-realism-a-conversation-between-james-clifford-and-massimiliano-mao-mollona\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T10:49:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T09:49:44","slug":"impossible-realism-a-conversation-between-james-clifford-and-massimiliano-mao-mollona","status":"publish","type":"prospection","link":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/prospections\/impossible-realism-a-conversation-between-james-clifford-and-massimiliano-mao-mollona\/","title":{"rendered":"(Im)possible Realism: A Conversation between James\u202fClifford and\u202fMassimiliano (Mao) Mollona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Anthropologist and educator James<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Clifford and<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202fanthropologist and filmmaker <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Massimiliano (Mao) Mollona <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">have been sustaining a long-term conversation<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">around the concept<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">of \u201c(im)possible realism\u201d:<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">a<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">realism that<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">accepts<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">the<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">contradictions of<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">micro and macro scales, local and global, and thus the<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">impossibility of telling a singular and unifying<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">composite historical story. One of these exchanges was recorded<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">and subsequently<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">discussed in the context of the<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bakonline.org%2Ffellowship%2F2021-2022%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cm.mollona%40gold.ac.uk%7C13ddb31381ae4634ae0808dabc04498f%7C0d431f3f20c1461c958a46b29d4e021b%7C0%7C0%7C638029024147408577%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=rPzGbsXaWCJ%2Br8pZJr%2B35R1P%2Bg%2BkEh5fGAnIgjiOKbk%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"1\"><span lang=\"en-US\">2021\u20132022 Fellowship for Situated Practice<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"en-US\">, in connection<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">to<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">and as part of the <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bakonline.org%2Flong-term-project%2Fspectral-infrastructure%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cm.mollona%40gold.ac.uk%7C13ddb31381ae4634ae0808dabc04498f%7C0d431f3f20c1461c958a46b29d4e021b%7C0%7C0%7C638029024147408577%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=OslHn9RLaCbgdayDXOaLOWEPuHMxdTN3wF4WcVOMicw%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"2\"><i><span lang=\"en-US\">Spectral Infrastructure<\/span><\/i><\/a><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0research trajectory.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Discussing several concrete studies\u00a0from \u201cdecolonizing\u201d Western museums, they<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">argue that<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">an \u201c(im)possible realist\u201d<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">ethnographic sensibility complicates and multiplies the historical stories<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">that<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">urgently need to<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">be told in the wake of the now-displaced<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u201cmaster narratives.\u201d<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Reflecting<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">on flexible capitalism and cultural globalization from the 1980s onwards, a neoliberal hegemony which brought into view some cultural and social formations while overshadowing others, Clifford and Mollona<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">discuss the emergence of articulated\u00a0forms of local\/global \u201cindigeneity\u201d and the disappearance\/transformation of the working class. They advocate a supple ethnographic approach that can understand\u00a0these two historical trajectories as discrepant elements of a changing conjuncture. (Im)possible realism grasps these, and other components of the present moment, not as\u00a0functionally-determined, abstract scenarios but as emergent, linked\u00a0engagements which cannot be\u00a0subsumed in an\u00a0overarching<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u202f<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">logic or explanation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antropoloog en geleerde James Clifford en antropoloog en filmmaker Massimiliano (Mao) Mollona voeren al geruime tijd een gesprek rond het concept van &#8220;(on)mogelijk realisme&#8221;: een realisme dat de tegenstrijdigheden van micro- en macroschalen, lokaal en globaal, accepteert en daardoor ook de onmogelijkheid om een enkelvoudig en overkoepeld samengesteld historisch verhaal te vertellen. E\u00e9n van deze uitwisselingen werd opgenomen en vervolgens besproken in het kader van het BAKFellowship for Situated Practice 2021\u20122022, als onderdeel van het Spectral Infrastructure onderzoekstraject.\u202f\u202f <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":41695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"focus":[323,324],"prospection_category":[326,181],"class_list":["post-41618","prospection","type-prospection","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","focus-beyond-value-nl","focus-spectral-infrastructure-nl","prospection_category-conversation-nl","prospection_category-video-nl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prospection\/41618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prospection"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prospection"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41618"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prospection\/41618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42392,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prospection\/41618\/revisions\/42392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"focus","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/focus?post=41618"},{"taxonomy":"prospection_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prospection_category?post=41618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}