Raffaella Fryer-Moreira | Multimedia Anthropology

The midiativista movement in Rio de Janeiro articulated a sustained critique of the conditions through which knowledge has been produced. Their rejection of the “manipulated” reports of corporate media negated the regime of legitimacy upon which journalistic knowledge is based. Their articulation of  reports that were both “un-manipulated” yet inherently “partial” redefined accepted notions of legitimacy and truth (both journalistic and anthropological).  Continue ...

The world is in a state of severe crisis. The continued pursuit of a form of advanced capitalism has brought the planet to a state of imminent ecocide, repositioning the human species as a potent geological force. The specific ways in which capitalism has formulated the relations between humans, machines, and the rest of nature, has led to an effective annihilation of the conditions of its own existence. In short, the world has to be re-thought. Continue...

This dissertation investigates the socio-reproductive potential of the chemical substance lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). I conducted fieldwork among a community for whom this substance was a central component of practice. I follow the artefact’s socio-chemical trajectory to demonstrate the ways in which it has emerged as a material, and how this trajectory affects its contemporary engagement. Continue...