An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies

An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 195
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ISBN-10 : 9781000182729
ISBN-13 : 100018272X
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Book Synopsis An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies by : Débora Lanzeni

Download or read book An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies written by Débora Lanzeni and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 design; how to create critical and interventional approaches to technology design and innovation; and how a critical anthropology of the way that emerging technologies are experienced in everyday life circumstances offers new insights for future-making practices. In pursuing these questions, this book responds to a call for new anthropologies that respond to the current and emerging technological environments in which we live, environments for which thinking critically about the possible, plausible, and impossible futures are no longer sufficient. Taking the next step, this book asserts that anthropology must now propose alternative ways, rooted in ethnography, to approach and engage with what is coming and to contest dominant narratives of industry, policy, and government, and to respond to our contemporary context through a public, vocal, and interventional approach.


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