Specifically, I show that the captivating qualities of ethnography derive from the narrative trope of captor-turned-captive, as incomplete entrapments of the field are often used as a device for turning ethnographer and reader into entrapped. (3/3)

The essay highlights the role of limitations and the dual dynamics of capture and captivation in Taxi and ethnographic practice. (2/3)

Lastly, what sets capture apart from notions such as network or entanglement is its recursive potential as a verb and metonym for ethnographic inquiry and representation. (6/6)

By bringing this idea to bear on ethnographic analyses of capture, we argue that capture is frequently deployed as a generic term—a catchword—that simultaneously defines the work of the generic itself as a mode of capture or containment. (5/6)

The significance of the diverse socialities of capture is clarified in relation to previous works that demonstrate how capture folds over and into itself, entrapping not just the prey, but also the captors. (4/6)

We argue that neither of these terms should be read as rifts in sociality but rather as continuations of the social by other means. (3/6)

As we note in the Introduction, idioms of capture already pervade anthropological descriptions, analyses, and methods. We start by questioning the widespread equivalence between capture and predation. (2/6)

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By drawing on a conception of the Anthropocene as a contemporary form of entrapment par excellence, the essay cautions against idealized states of traplessness and posits disconnection as a precondition for the Anthropocene’s modulation. (5/5)

To help, I draw on two multispecies science fiction novels—Children of Time and Semiosis—that complicate the stakes of more-than-human relationality not with recourse to its purported absence but rather by foregrounding its productive impossibility. (4/5)

While such critiques tend to figure disconnection as external to relation, this essay suggests that disconnection and connection are constitutive of all relations in equal measure. (3/5)

Scholars have noted that the celebration of relationality in multispecies and posthumanist scholarship sometimes disregards how more-than-human entanglements entail various kinds of disjuncture. (2/5)