2025.12.14
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Publication
STRATA—Unruly Ethnographies of Troubled Worlds
STRATA — Unruly Ethnographies of Troubled Worlds, is a collective work that rethinks how we narrate, live, and experience ethnography. Created by anthropologist-artists, the book combines images, texts, and sounds via the linked website to allow one to see and feel six research projects conducted in France, Portugal, Romania, and Congo. It explores the relationships between humans and non-humans, colonial memory, climate, time, and the sensory experience of the world.
Our design starts with a phenomenological organization of the given mostly visual materials and then collapses in subjective sensorial fluidity. The cover of the book is using the Sierpiński carpet, a flat square fractal created through an infinite process of subdivision and perforation, to hind to the porousness of media and that the surfaces we are looking at are in theory zero, voicing typical Deleuzoguattrian notions as ‘territorialization’ and ‘deterritorialization’.
In the website that we designed in parallel to the publication the user performs this passage from grid order to randomness in a click. Have a try here : www.stratabook.net
Supported by the A*MIDEX ANFAA Chair of Excellence (Alternative Narrative Forms in Audiovisual Anthropology) at Aix-Marseille University / IDEAS.
texts and images
Aurélie Darbouret
Camilo Leon Quijano
Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
Daniela Rodrigues
Jeff Silva
Laurent Van Lanckerediting Céline Pévrier
graphic design Typical Organization
published by sun/sun
photogravure Fausto Urru
translation Mathias Lefèvre