[Linganth] tomorrow -- CaMP reading group

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
I am so pleased to announce that the CaMP reading group is starting up
again this year with Michael Lempert as the featured author tomorrow at
noon East Coast time.

He has asked us to read the preface and introduction. Please read as much
as you can, but do feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read
everything.

The reading can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jF0N7A_htfKDXuzAU-aiwz16HPAzhS2s/view?usp=sharing

The meeting will be 12-1 pm  east coast time  tomorrow and can be reached
by clicking on this Zoom link:

  https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698 <https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698>

If you want to see the full line-up for this year, you can find it here:
https://campanthropology.org/virtual-reading-group/

Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,

Ilana

Press blurb: In this ambitious, wide-ranging book, anthropologist Michael
Lempert offers a conceptual history that explores how, why, and with what
effects we have come to think of interactions as “scaled.” Focusing on the
sciences of interaction in midcentury America, Lempert traces how they
harnessed diverse tools and media technologies, from dictation machines to
16mm film, to study communication “microscopically.” In looking closely,
many hoped to transform interaction: to improve efficiency, grow democracy,
curb racism, and much else. Yet their descent into a microworld created
troubles, with some critics charging that these scientists couldn’t see the
proverbial forest for the trees. Exploring talk therapy and group dynamics
studies, social psychology and management science, conversation analysis,
“micropolitics,” and more, Lempert shows how scale became a defining
problem across the behavioral sciences.

Ultimately, he argues, if we learn how our objects of study have been
scaled in advance, we can better understand how we think and interact with
them—and with each other—across disciplinary and ideological divides. Even
as once-fierce debates over micro and macro have largely subsided, Lempert
shows how scale lives on and continues to affect the ethics and politics of
language and communication today.
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