To anthropology, from meat prison

摘要

The present essay, begun just before and written during the 2020 UK lockdown owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, draws first on the philosophical anthropology of Plessner (1970, 2019) and Wentzer(2017), finding ground in the notion of responsiveness. Then, working in a broadly autophenomenologicalmanner inspired by a mundane encounter with television news, the force of atelevisual scream is used to explore anthropology of and as responsiveness, culminating in a critiqueof the anthropological theory of moralities put forward by Jarrett Zigon (2007). What results is anintentionally ‘simplistic representation(s) of social reality’ (Stoczkowski 2008: 351), certainlyanthropology, but I argue that, at least minimally, a moralizing anthropology is required as apossibility within any anthropological theory of moralities.