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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      04 December 2006
      ISBN:
      9780511808418
      9780521858915
      9780521675888
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511808418
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.645kg, 328 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 328 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Developmental Psychology, Anthropology, Psychology
      Series:
      Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
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    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, Developmental Psychology, Anthropology, Psychology
    Series:
    Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
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    This 2007 book considers how agencies are currently figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Contrary to the apparent enlivening of objects promised by the sciences of the artificial, the author proposes that the rhetorics and practices of those sciences work to obscure the performative nature of both persons and things. The question then shifts from debates over the status of human-like machines, to that of how humans and machines are enacted as similar or different in practice, and with what theoretical, practical and political consequences. Drawing on scholarship across the social sciences, humanities and computing, the author argues for research aimed at tracing the differences within specific sociomaterial arrangements without resorting to essentialist divides. This requires expanding our unit of analysis, while recognizing the inevitable cuts or boundaries through which technological systems are constituted.

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    '… a wide ranging and ambitious book,and makes an important contribution to studies of technology, action and agency. … the text remains readable and informative and makes a valuable and important intervention in the field.'

    Source: British Journal of Sociology

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