"Attention to friction opens the possibility of an ethnographic account of global interconnection. Abstract claims about the globe can be studied as they operate in the world. We might thus ask about universals not as truths or lies but as sticky engagements."
Source
Tsing, Anna. 2005. Introduction. In Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connections. Princeton University Press.
Anna Tsing, "Tsing.2005.Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection", contributed by Duygu Kasdogan, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 25 May 2020, accessed 30 November 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/tsing2005friction-ethnography-global-connection
Critical Commentary
"Attention to friction opens the possibility of an ethnographic account of global interconnection. Abstract claims about the globe can be studied as they operate in the world. We might thus ask about universals not as truths or lies but as sticky engagements."