Real time: Unwinding technocratic and anthropological knowledge

摘要: "The Bank of Japan is our mother," bankers in Tokyo sometimes said Japan's central bank. Drawing on this metaphor as an ethnographic resource, and the example who sought to unwind their own technocratic knowledge by replacing it with a real-time machine, I retrace task unwinding from those anthropological practices that critique technocracy. In so doing, draw attention special methodological problems-involving relationship between ethnography, analysis, reception-in representation contemporary practices.