1st Edition

An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies

192 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures. It asks how technological futures are being constituted and the roles anthropologists can play in their making; how anthropologists engage with emerging technologies within their fieldwork contexts in research which seeks to influence future... Read more

Introduction 

Karen Waltorp et al.

1. Complicating Futures

Debora Lanzeni and Sarah Pink

2. Modelling the Future?  

Simone Abram and Antti Silvast

3. Innovation routes  

Roxana Moroșanu Firth & Nathan Crilly

4. Digital Anticipation  

Sarah Pink, Laura Kelly and Harry Ferguson

5. Algorithmic futures and the unsettled sense of care  

Minna Ruckenstein and Sonja Trifuljesko

6. Organising artificial intelligence and representing work  

Bastian Jørgensen, Christopher Gad and Brit Ross Winthereik

7. Making sense of sensors  

Ajda Pretnar and Dan Podjed

8. Drones as a gendered matter of concern  

Karen Waltorp and Maja Hojer Bruun

9. Future Mobility Solutions?  

Sarah Pink et al.

10. Sensor technologies and the surrealist impulse 

Elizabeth de Freitas, Maggie MacLure and David Rousell

Afterword 

Janet Roitman

Biography

Débora Lanzeni is Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia.

Karen Waltorp is Associate Professor – Promotion Program, Department of Anthropology at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sarah Pink is Professor at Monash University, Australia.

Rachel C. Smith is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.