Poza formą i treścią. W stronę materialności
Beyond Form and Content: Towards Materiality

Summary/Abstract: The article offers a reflection on Leviathan (2012), a film made by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, anthropologists associated with the Sensory Ethnography Lab (Harvard University). The author proposes to regard the film as a new type of anthropology, breaking with the traditional Geertzian “thick description” and anthropocentric perspective, but also with the philosophy of representation dominant in the Western world. It emphasizes the importance of materiality/materials, sensuality, processuality, but also the indistinguishability of human and non-human actors. The argument draws on the concepts of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, as well as Tim Ingold. Perhaps the latter’s sentence (To engage with things is to sense the world, not to inhabit a world of sense) could be a kind of introduction to the film.

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