{"title":"Affective Infrastructure: Capitalism's Specters in the Ecovillage Findhorn Community","authors":"Kelsey D. Grubbs","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70019","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anoc.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Ecovillage Findhorn Community (EFC) in Northeast Scotland seeks to live in harmony with nature. How the community has done this over its 60-plus years has changed from social communalism, where residents lived in cheap caravans, to now mostly privately-owned expensive ‘eco’ houses with green technology. Embedded in this historical-present transition is a troubled tension of both resisting and perpetuating capitalism—the malevolent specter fueling genocide and ecocide. However, there is an ‘eco’ paradox of “cruel optimism” here, whereby paying for expensive ‘eco’ housing and green technology infrastructure to mitigate capitalism's specters inherently fuels capitalism, which created the need for ‘sustainable’ solutions in the first place. This paper attends to how EFC residents, human and other-than-human, grapple with capitalism's spectral entanglement with affective infrastructures.</p>","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anoc.70019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147626363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War","authors":"Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70024","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anoc.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural-natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other-than-human agency, which in the Sápmi region is further accentuated by unsolicited traumas of the past. Among the more recent tragedies is the never-before-seen cataclysm of the Second World War, which in a short time swept through the indigenous lands in both a metaphorical and physical sense. The destruction and loss of life left in their wake fading memories and questions yet unanswered. The seemingly untouched wilderness holds an abundance of material reminders that may seem better left forgotten. But holding on to these material traces and respectfully telling and remembering the stories embedded within them—many yet to be told—activates the affective agencies that populate the northern memoryscape.</p>","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anoc.70024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"«Différant des Autres», Espacements et Temporalités Spectrales","authors":"Amélie-Anne Mailhot","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70027","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anoc.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>That night that he agreed to our suggestion that we accompany him outside, for the whole night or until the overflow has passed, M seemed to be in direct contact with all the layers of astronomy, inhabiting all temporalities simultaneously. Outside, lying/sitting on the picnic table, in the pitch-black darkness of the night in the woods, under a few stars, he explained to us why we are still, always, in the Big Bang. He made noises of speed, gestured with his arms; his face was tender and laughing. He wanted us to understand; he used all his senses, smoking cigarette after cigarette.</p><p>The picnic table we're sitting on was made in a “mental health” day center by the same people who made the bench that I sometimes hang around, inscribed: “Différ<i>a</i>nt des autres”, which translate as “Differ<i>a</i>nt from the others.” I don't believe, though I'm not certain, that the person who wrote it did so with reference to Derridean <i>différance</i>. But that's the idea that immediately struck me, like a door opening onto the possibilities that haunt the bench, those who made it, those who will sit on it, those who will ignore it, those who do ignore it. This sentence on a bench, which makes an unintentional reference to philosophy, suddenly reveals: power relations, diffractions, gaps, injustices, poetry, beauty, and the unalterable impossibility of sameness.</p><p>Taking the form of a fragmented narrative, this article proposes an investigation into the atmospheres surrounding lived experiences with people who are said to “live with mental health disorders”, proceeding through literary-terrestrial back-and-forths between their breath and the rigidity of our capacity to receive them.</p>","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anoc.70027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Haunted by Houses: Built and Lived Absences in a Transnational Mexican Community","authors":"Julia Pauli","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70015","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anoc.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Globally, millions of migrants have sent money home to build a house. In early phases of migration, remittance houses are aspirational objects that materialize the continuous belonging of migrants to a community. In later stages, experiences of loss, estrangement, deportation, and death increasingly challenge these attachments. Drawing on my ethnographic research in a transnational community in rural Mexico since 1995, I explore how painful absences have shaped the building of and living in remittance houses. Disappeared and distant migrant kin haunt those living in remittance houses through their presence in material objects and social practices. I argue that attending to the different ways of being haunted by absences and loss in remittance houses can help bring forth nuances and complexities of how transnational communities respond to the inhumanity of migration between Mexico and the United States.</p>","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anoc.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breathing Life Flows Through Chaos: Reconfiguring the Effectiveness of Five-Finger Breathing in Mental Health First Aid","authors":"Yuxin Peng","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70032","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anoc.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article questions the moral and causal certainties attributed to the clinical assumptions of the breath of chaos. Instead of seeing chaos as an exceptional intruder that causes problems in health, I suggest that chaos underlines the changing conditions of health and it's an intrinsic part of breathing and everyday life. I discuss the five-finger breathing as a therapeutic technique to cope with the shortness of breath in panic attacks. I propose that the practice makes chaos an ineluctable prompt that evokes therapeutic anchoring, which helps with the navigation of life. Moving away from the clinical assessments, I adopt the approach of participant experience to present a medical anthropological analysis of the effectiveness of five-finger breathing as practised in a mental health recovery group in Southeast England.</p>","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anoc.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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