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The Technologisation of the Social: A Political Anthropology of the Digital Machine book cover

1st Edition

The Technologisation of the Social A Political Anthropology of the Digital Machine

Edited By Paul O'Connor, Marius Ion Benţa Copyright 2022
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge
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In an era of digital revolution, artificial intelligence, big data and augmented reality, technology has shifted from being a tool of communication to a primary medium of experience and sociality. Some of the most basic human capacities are increasingly being outsourced to machines and we increasingly experience and interpret the world through digital interfaces, with machines becoming ever more... Read more

Introduction: The Technologisation of the Social: A 21st-Century Megamachine?

Paul O’Connor

1. Communication as Theatricalisation: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age

Arpad Szakolczai

2. Parasites of the Social: Digital Disruptions of the Labour Market

Tom Boland

3. Possessed by Technology: The Metastasis of Absence

Agnes Horvath

4. Technologisation of the Social: Symbiosis, Parasitism, or Predation?

Daniel Gati

5. J'accuse Zéro: The Technology of Zero and the Making of a Personal Void

Ray Griffin

6. Digital Affordances and the Liminal

Stephen Turner

7. The Smart Womb: Digital Technologies and the Maze of Trickster Politics

Marius Ion Benta

8. Brave New Industry? The Dark Side of Dematerialisation and Industry 4.0

Thomas S.J. Smith

9. ‘What Have You Caught?’: Nannycams and Hidden Cameras as Normalised Surveillance of the Intimate

Janos Mark Szakolczai

10. Coercive Visibility: Discipline in the Digital Public Arena

Paul O’Connor

Conclusion: Is There a Way Out of the Technologisation of the Social?

Marius Ion Benta

Biography

Paul O’Connor is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Society at United Arab Emirates University. He is the author of Home: The Foundations of Belonging.

Marius Ion Benta is Research Fellow in the Department of Social and Human Studies at the George Barițiu History Institute, Romania. He is the co-editor of Walling, Boundaries and Liminality: A Political Anthropology of Transformations and the author of Experiencing Multiple Realities: Alfred Schutz’s Sociology of the Finite Provinces of Meaning.

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