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An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology

Author : Amber Case
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494773519
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology written by Amber Case and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to have an online persona? How is technology changing the way we work, live and play? How do our tools influence the way we interact with the world? Technology is intertwined with almost every aspect of our lives. Our cell phones, cars and laptops have turned us into cyborgs. Cyborg Anthropology is a way of exploring how we live as a connected species. This book explores topics such as junk sleep, hyperlinked memories, panic architecture, the quantified self, and how humans are changing through the use of technology.This book is an appetizer for an emerging field of study, an inspirational starting point for designers, developers, researchers, students, and anyone who wishes to explore the symbiotic relationship between technology and culture.

Calm Technology

Author : Amber Case
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 149192585X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Calm Technology written by Amber Case and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you design technology that becomes a part of a user’s life and not a distraction from it? This practical book explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing a user’s attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the background most of the time. You’ll learn how to design products that work well, launch well, are easy to support, easy to use, and remain unobtrusive. Author Amber Case presents ideas first introduced by researchers at Xerox PARC in 1995, and explains how they apply to our current technology landscape, especially the Internet of Things. This book is ideal for UX and product designers, managers, creative directors, and developers. You’ll learn: The importance and challenge of designing technology that respects our attention Principles of calm design—peripheral attention, context, and ambient awareness Calm communication patterns—improving attention through a variety of senses Exercises for improving existing products through calm technology Principles and patterns of calm technology for companies and teams The origins of calm technology at Xerox PARC

A Dictionary of Sociology

Author : John Scott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191047554
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Sociology written by John Scott and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science. For this fourth edition, Professor John Scott has conducted a thorough review of all entries to ensure that they are concise, focused, and up to date. Revisions reflect current intellectual debates and social conditions, particularly in relation to global and multi-cultural issues. New entries cover relevant contemporary concepts, such as climate change, social media, terrorism, and intersectionality, as well as key living sociologists. This Dictionary is both an invaluable introduction to sociology for beginners, and an essential source of reference for more advanced students and teachers.

After Ethnos

Author : Tobias Rees
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147800228X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book After Ethnos written by Tobias Rees and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others—of how social structures secretly organized the living-together of a given society, of how a people had endowed the world surrounding them with cultural meaning. While the poetics and politics of anthropology have changed dramatically over the course of a century, the basic equation of anthropology with ethnography—as well as the definition of the human as a social and cultural being—has remained so evident that the possibility of questioning it occurred to hardly anyone. In After Ethnos Tobias Rees endeavors to decouple anthropology from ethnography—and the human from society and culture—and explores the manifold possibilities of practicing a question-based rather than an answer-based anthropology that emanates from this decoupling. What emerges from Rees's provocations is a new understanding of anthropology as a philosophically and poetically inclined, fieldwork-based investigation of what it could mean to be human when the established concepts of the human on which anthropology has been built increasingly fail us.

The Seductions of Quantification

Author : Sally Engle Merry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022626131X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Seductions of Quantification written by Sally Engle Merry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories, we inevitably strip it of context and meaning—and risk hiding or distorting as much as we reveal. With The Seductions of Quantification, leading legal anthropologist Sally Engle Merry investigates the techniques by which information is gathered and analyzed in the production of global indicators on human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking. Although such numbers convey an aura of objective truth and scientific validity, Merry argues persuasively that measurement systems constitute a form of power by incorporating theories about social change in their design but rarely explicitly acknowledging them. For instance, the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report, which ranks countries in terms of their compliance with antitrafficking activities, assumes that prosecuting traffickers as criminals is an effective corrective strategy—overlooking cultures where women and children are frequently sold by their own families. As Merry shows, indicators are indeed seductive in their promise of providing concrete knowledge about how the world works, but they are implemented most successfully when paired with context-rich qualitative accounts grounded in local knowledge.

A Kids Book about Technology

Author : Amber Case
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951253837
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book A Kids Book about Technology written by Amber Case and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're all cyborgs. It's true! We use technology every day in all aspects of our lives-but that's not a bad thing! The problem is when we let it take over our lives. This book will help kids and grownups alike reflect on their relationship with technology and learn to embrace the benefits of being unplugged.

Overheating

Author : Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745336398
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Overheating written by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new intervention on the overarching challenges of modernity from one of the world's leading anthropologists

Expanded Cinema

Author : Gene Youngblood
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823287432
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Expanded Cinema written by Gene Youngblood and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media studies book that helped establish media art as a cultural category. First published in 1970, Gene Youngblood’s influential Expanded Cinema was the first serious treatment of video, computers, and holography as cinematic technologies. Long considered the bible for media artists, Youngblood’s insider account of 1960s counterculture and the birth of cybernetics remains a mainstay reference in today’s hypermediated digital world. This fiftieth anniversary edition includes a new Introduction by the author that offers conceptual tools for understanding the sociocultural and sociopolitical realities of our present world. A unique eyewitness account of burgeoning experimental film and the birth of video art in the late 1960s, this far- ranging study traces the evolution of cinematic language to the end of fiction, drama, and realism. Vast in scope, its prescient formulations include “the paleocybernetic age,” “intermedia,” the “artist as design scientist,” the “artist as ecologist,” “synaesthetics and kinesthetics,” and “the technosphere: man/machine symbiosis.” Outstanding works are analyzed in detail. Methods of production are meticulously described, including interviews with artists and technologists of the period, such as Nam June Paik, Jordan Belson, Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Stan VanDerBeek, Les Levine, and Frank Gillette. An inspiring Introduction by the celebrated polymath and designer R. Buckminster Fuller—a perfectly cut gem of countercultural thinking in itself—places Youngblood’s radical observations in comprehensive perspective. Providing an unparalleled historical documentation, Expanded Cinema clarifies a chapter of countercultural history that is still not fully represented in the arthistorical record half a century later. The book will also inspire the current generation of artists working in ever-newer expansions of the cinematic environment and will prove invaluable to all who are concerned with the technologies that are reshaping the nature of human communication.

Manifestly Haraway

Author : Donna J. Haraway
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145295013X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Manifestly Haraway written by Donna J. Haraway and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges—of human and machine but also of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and location—are increasingly complex. The subsequent “Companion Species Manifesto,” which further questions the human–nonhuman disjunction, is no less urgently needed in our time of environmental crisis and profound polarization. Manifestly Haraway brings together these momentous manifestos to expose the continuity and ramifying force of Haraway’s thought, whose significance emerges with engaging immediacy in a sustained conversation between the author and her long-term friend and colleague Cary Wolfe. Reading cyborgs and companion species through and with each other, Haraway and Wolfe join in a wide-ranging exchange on the history and meaning of the manifestos in the context of biopolitics, feminism, Marxism, human–nonhuman relationships, making kin, literary tropes, material semiotics, the negative way of knowing, secular Catholicism, and more. The conversation ends by revealing the early stages of Haraway’s “Chthulucene Manifesto,” in tension with the teleologies of the doleful Anthropocene and the exterminationist Capitalocene. Deeply dedicated to a diverse and robust earthly flourishing, Manifestly Haraway promises to reignite needed discussion in and out of the academy about biologies, technologies, histories, and still possible futures.

Archaeology Anthropology and Interstellar Communication

Author : Douglas A. Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781511415859
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology Anthropology and Interstellar Communication written by Douglas A. Douglas A. Vakoch and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence. These scholars are grappling with some of the enormous challenges that will face humanity if an information-rich signal emanating from another world is detected. By drawing on issues at the core of contemporary archaeology and anthropology, we can be much better prepared for contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, should that day ever come.

Modified: Living as a Cyborg

Author : Chris Hables Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135110781X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Modified: Living as a Cyborg written by Chris Hables Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building off the highly successful The Cyborg Handbook, this new collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces brings together a set of compelling personal accounts about what it means to live as a cyborg in the twenty-first century. Human integration with complex technologies goes back to clothes, cooking, and language, but has accelerated incredibly in the last few centuries, with interest spreading among scientists, coders, people with sophisticated implants, theorists, and artists. This collection includes some of the most articulate of these voices from over 25 countries, including Donna Haraway, Stelarc, Natasha Vita-More, Steve Mann, Amber Case, Michael Chorost, Moon Ribas, Kevin Warwick, Sandy Stone, Dion Farquhar, Angeliki Malakasioti, Elif Ayiter, Heesang Lee, Angel Gordo, and others. Addressing topics including race, gender, sexuality, class, conflict, capitalism, climate change, disability and beyond, this collection also explores the differences between robots, androids, cyborgs, hybrids, post-, trans-, and techno-humans, offering readers a critical vocabulary for understanding and discussing the cyborgification of culture and everyday life. Compelling, interdisciplinary, and international, the book is a perfect primer for students, researchers, and teachers of cyberculture, media and cultural theory, and science fiction studies, as well as anyone interested in the intersections between human and machine.

The Book of What If...?

Author : Matt Murrie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481430742
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Book of What If...? written by Matt Murrie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creators of the What If…? Conference comes a quirky book that encourages kids to explore and engage with the world around them by asking more than eighty wild, absurd, and thought provoking questions. What if a book didn’t just tell you how to think or what to know, but rather encouraged you to think for yourself? What if there was a book that focused on asking questions instead of just answering them? The Book of What If…? does just that! What if you lived on a floating city? What if politicians were kids? What if broccoli tasted like chocolate? What if you could explore outer space? By asking these fun, open-ended questions, this book fosters greater critical thinking skills and gives kids a space to interact by breaking out a notebook to draw or write out their personal reactions, or engage in entertaining exercises with family and friends. Plus, sidebars deepen the investigation with peer-to-peer insights, historical and current profiles, real-life examples, and more, making for unlimited learning opportunities! Divided into sections—history, people, stuff, and nature—along with four introductory texts to open up a dialogue about why it’s important to be inquisitive and to always ask questions, The Book of What If…? is sure to be a hit with kids, teachers, and parents alike. So ask a question and let the answers lead you on an exciting journey filled with endless opportunities to learn!

The Posthuman Imagination

Author : Tanmoy Kundu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527565939
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Posthuman Imagination written by Tanmoy Kundu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, including an extended interview with noted philosopher of posthumanism Francesca Ferrando, explores the contemporary philosophical, literary and cultural landscapes that have emerged as a response to the unavoidable crisis faced by humans in the Anthropocene era. The essays gathered here map posthumanism both as theoretical posthumanism, which primarily seeks to develop new knowledge, and as practical posthumanism, which emphasizes socio-political, economic, and technological changes. Posthumanism, which explores how one can address the question of what means to be human today, is a burgeoning area of interest among universities across the globe. Written in accessible, yet scholarly, language, this volume introduces posthumanism in its diverse ramifications and explicates the subject through various literary and filmic texts in order to cater to the needs of researchers and students in the humanities.

The Cyborg Handbook

Author : Chris Hables Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Cyborg Handbook written by Chris Hables Gray and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cybernetic organisms (cyborgs)

Memory and Technology

Author : Jason R. Finley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319991698
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Memory and Technology written by Jason R. Finley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is technology changing the way people remember? This book explores the interplay of memory stored in the brain (internal memory) and outside of the brain (external memory), providing a thorough interdisciplinary review of the current literature, including relevant theoretical frameworks from across a variety of disciplines in the sciences, arts, and humanities. It also presents the findings of a rich and novel empirical data set, based on a comprehensive survey on the shifting interplay of internal and external memory in the 21st century. Results reveal a growing symbiosis between the two forms of memory in our everyday lives. The book presents a new theoretical framework for understanding the interplay of internal and external memory, and their complementary strengths. It concludes with a guide to important dimensions, questions, and methods for future research. Memory and Technology will be of interest to researchers, professors, and students across the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, library and information science, human factors, media and cultural studies, anthropology and archaeology, photography, and cognitive rehabilitation, as well as anyone interested in how technology is affecting human memory. _____ "This is a novel book, with interesting and valuable data on an important, meaningful topic, as well as a gathering of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary ideas...The research is accurately represented and inclusive. As a teaching tool, I can envision graduate seminars in different disciplines drawing on the material as the basis for teaching and discussions." Dr. Linda A. Henkel, Fairfield University "This book documents the achievements of a vibrant scientific project – you feel the enthusiasm of the authors for their research. The organization of the manuscript introduces the reader into a comparatively new field the same way as pioneering authors have approached it." Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schönpflug, Freie Universität Berlin

Anthropology of Tobacco

Author : Andrew Russell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351050176
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology of Tobacco written by Andrew Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commoditites on the planet. Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studies, Anthropology of Tobacco makes the plant the centre of its own contentious, global story in which, instead of a passive commodity, tobacco becomes a powerful player in a global adventure involving people, corporations and public health. Bringing together a range of perspectives from the social and natural sciences as well as the arts and humanities, Anthropology of Tobacco weaves stories together from a range of historical, cross-cultural and literary sources and empirical research. These combine with contemporary anthropological theories of agency and cross-species relationships to offer fresh perspectives on how an apparently humble plant has progressed to world domination, and the consequences of it having done so. It also considers what needs to happen if, as some public health advocates would have it, we are seriously to imagine ‘a world without tobacco’. This book presents students, scholars and practitioners in anthropology, public health and social policy with unique and multiple perspectives on tobacco-human relations.

The Augmented Reality of Pokémon Go

Author : Neriko Musha Doerr
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498574920
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Augmented Reality of Pokémon Go written by Neriko Musha Doerr and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the complexities created by Pokémon GO—the smartphone augmented reality game— from an anthropological perspective. Through detailed text analyses, links to wider issues, and the phenomenology of playing, this collection provides nuanced studies of how Pokémon GO created a new way to inhabit the world.