Jerry C. Zee, "Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System" (U California Press, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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The Experience of Breathing Bad Air
i was trying to think about, you know, well, if we were to take seriously just the experience of breathing, does this give us a way of speculating over modes of political collectivity that are not propaganda breathing? And i didn't actually mean to write the two chapters in the middle thatare about baging, but i just happened to be there during my fieldwork year andiwas like, a thing was happening. It is also very interesting, and how breathing becomes, en, the most impossibly quotating thing, become political political spectacle.
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