Jenny Huberman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Huberman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Huberman |
| SIGNATURE | HUBERMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–Kansas City |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Activating the senses
The Transpecies Society is an association of cyborg artists and activists "that gives voice to nonhuman identities; raises awareness of the challenges transpecies face; advocates for the freedom of self-design and offers the development of new senses and organs." This article explores how members of The Transpecies Society use sensory modification as a form of artistic expression and political activism. It asks, how do transpeciests seek to "stre…
The Magic, Science, and Religion of Pet Cloning
Boredom in the age of Covid-19
This article explores how boredom emerged as a central threat to Americans’ sense of well-being in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing upon media coverage from a range of sources, I ask: What do responses to the COVID-19 pandemic reveal more generally about the way boredom has emerged as one of the central dis-eases of modern life? Why has free time become something that increasingly generates intolerable anxiety? In what ways can st…
Funding Immortality
Cet article examine comment les fondations philanthropiques assurent à la techno-élite Américaine les moyens essentiels pour leur poursuite de « l’immortalité symbolique » (Lifton et Olson 1974). Récemment on a vu beaucoup d’intérêt dans « l’industrie de l’immortalité » : la façon que la technogentsia poursuit l’immortalité à travers les technologies comme la pharmacologie radicale, le clonage de l’esprit (mindcloning), et même la cryogénie. Pour…
A single narrative will not do
In recent years, scholars working across a range of disciplines have become increasingly interested in exploring the contours and machinations of digital capitalism. Celebrants extoll the way digital technologies are enhancing processes of capital accumulation, rendering employment more flexible, democractizing innovation, and making new forms of economic co-operation possible. By contrast, skeptics warn that digital technologies are being used t…
Amazon Go, surveillance capitalism, and the ideology of convenience
How does convenience operate not just as a highly coveted consumer good that stands to mitigate the demands of life in a fast-paced society but also as an ideology that is integral to new forms of capital accumulation, domination, and extraction? Taking Shoshana Zuboff's work on surveillance capitalism as a departure point, in this article I explore this question by focusing on one of Amazon's newest business initiatives, Amazon Go. Launched in 2…
What to Do with Surveillance Capitalism
Every now and then a book comes along that forces one to radically question the way the world works. The power of such books stems from their ability to expose the hidden “laws of motion” that anim
Far out
Tourism is not something that just ‘happened’ to Nepal. Rather it has been the product of an ongoing ‘encounter’ between Westerners longing to discover and experience a place of ‘otherness’ untouch
Immortality transformed
This article explores the transhumanist effort to achieve digital immortality through the technology of mind cloning. Drawing upon the writings of Martine Rothblatt, one of the leading proponents of the Transhumanist Movement in the United States, it asks: how is this effort both similar to and different from other attempts our species has made to achieve ‘symbolic immortality’? Can Lifton and Olson’s concept of symbolic immortality adequately ac…
The digital double burial
This article is intended as a comparative, yet speculative exercise. It seeks to consider how Robert Hertz’s 1907 analysis of the double burial in Dayak society might be used to integrate and guide studies of death in the contemporary American digital age. Over the last decade, scholars have begun to explore how experiences of loss, mourning and memorialisation are changing in the digital age. These inquiries, however, have rarely been situated w…
Facing the Future
From monuments to megapixels
This article explores transformations in the American way of death from the Victorian period to the present. It asks: What do recent shifts in mortuary practice and memorialization reveal about larger changes in American culture and society? And what is at stake in charting and understanding these changes for anthropologists interested in technology and culture change more generally? We argue that the move away from the lavish Victorian funeral t…
Ambivalent Encounters
Forever a fan
This article explores how the branding of death among 'die-hard' fans involves the production and articulation of multiple forms of value. Specifically, it asks: how do corporations attempt to increase their profits by harvesting the individual and collective sentiments of fans during mortuary rituals? What kind of work do branded funeral products do for die-hard fans? How might the branding of death facilitate new forms of remembering and even e…
The Dangers of Dalālī , the Dangers of Dān
The moral perils believed to be associated with the giving and receiving of dān (giving) have been widely noted by anthropologists of South Asia. However, among these studies of Indian giving and exchange, less attention has been devoted to exploring how and why commercial transactions become a site of moral condemnation. Drawing upon twenty months of fieldwork with the boys who operated as commission agents or dalāls in the foreign tourist econo…
Consuming Children
What makes 'corrupt' children such efficacious or nodal symbols? How and why is it that certain groups of children take on this signifying function? How do narratives about corrupt children provide people with a way of mediating and articulating more general anxieties about social change or rupture? This article begins to explore these questions by analyzing how people in the city of Banaras, India talked about the corruption and consumption of t…
Amazon Go, surveillance capitalism, and the ideology of convenience
How does convenience operate not just as a highly coveted consumer good that stands to mitigate the demands of life in a fast-paced society but also as an ideology that is integral to new forms of capital accumulation, domination, and extraction? Taking Shoshana Zuboff's work on surveillance capitalism as a departure point, in this article I explore this question by focusing on one of Amazon's newest business initiatives, Amazon Go. Launched in 2…
The Dangers of Dalālī , the Dangers of Dān
The moral perils believed to be associated with the giving and receiving of dān (giving) have been widely noted by anthropologists of South Asia. However, among these studies of Indian giving and exchange, less attention has been devoted to exploring how and why commercial transactions become a site of moral condemnation. Drawing upon twenty months of fieldwork with the boys who operated as commission agents or dalāls in the foreign tourist econo…
Forever a fan
This article explores how the branding of death among 'die-hard' fans involves the production and articulation of multiple forms of value. Specifically, it asks: how do corporations attempt to increase their profits by harvesting the individual and collective sentiments of fans during mortuary rituals? What kind of work do branded funeral products do for die-hard fans? How might the branding of death facilitate new forms of remembering and even e…
Consuming Children
What makes 'corrupt' children such efficacious or nodal symbols? How and why is it that certain groups of children take on this signifying function? How do narratives about corrupt children provide people with a way of mediating and articulating more general anxieties about social change or rupture? This article begins to explore these questions by analyzing how people in the city of Banaras, India talked about the corruption and consumption of t…
Activating the senses
The Transpecies Society is an association of cyborg artists and activists "that gives voice to nonhuman identities; raises awareness of the challenges transpecies face; advocates for the freedom of self-design and offers the development of new senses and organs." This article explores how members of The Transpecies Society use sensory modification as a form of artistic expression and political activism. It asks, how do transpeciests seek to "stre…
Facing the Future
From monuments to megapixels
This article explores transformations in the American way of death from the Victorian period to the present. It asks: What do recent shifts in mortuary practice and memorialization reveal about larger changes in American culture and society? And what is at stake in charting and understanding these changes for anthropologists interested in technology and culture change more generally? We argue that the move away from the lavish Victorian funeral t…
Consuming Children
What makes 'corrupt' children such efficacious or nodal symbols? How and why is it that certain groups of children take on this signifying function? How do narratives about corrupt children provide people with a way of mediating and articulating more general anxieties about social change or rupture? This article begins to explore these questions by analyzing how people in the city of Banaras, India talked about the corruption and consumption of t…
The Dangers of Dalālī , the Dangers of Dān
The moral perils believed to be associated with the giving and receiving of dān (giving) have been widely noted by anthropologists of South Asia. However, among these studies of Indian giving and exchange, less attention has been devoted to exploring how and why commercial transactions become a site of moral condemnation. Drawing upon twenty months of fieldwork with the boys who operated as commission agents or dalāls in the foreign tourist econo…
Ambivalent Encounters
Forever a fan
This article explores how the branding of death among 'die-hard' fans involves the production and articulation of multiple forms of value. Specifically, it asks: how do corporations attempt to increase their profits by harvesting the individual and collective sentiments of fans during mortuary rituals? What kind of work do branded funeral products do for die-hard fans? How might the branding of death facilitate new forms of remembering and even e…
From monuments to megapixels
This article explores transformations in the American way of death from the Victorian period to the present. It asks: What do recent shifts in mortuary practice and memorialization reveal about larger changes in American culture and society? And what is at stake in charting and understanding these changes for anthropologists interested in technology and culture change more generally? We argue that the move away from the lavish Victorian funeral t…
Facing the Future
Immortality transformed
This article explores the transhumanist effort to achieve digital immortality through the technology of mind cloning. Drawing upon the writings of Martine Rothblatt, one of the leading proponents of the Transhumanist Movement in the United States, it asks: how is this effort both similar to and different from other attempts our species has made to achieve ‘symbolic immortality’? Can Lifton and Olson’s concept of symbolic immortality adequately ac…
The digital double burial
This article is intended as a comparative, yet speculative exercise. It seeks to consider how Robert Hertz’s 1907 analysis of the double burial in Dayak society might be used to integrate and guide studies of death in the contemporary American digital age. Over the last decade, scholars have begun to explore how experiences of loss, mourning and memorialisation are changing in the digital age. These inquiries, however, have rarely been situated w…
Far out
Tourism is not something that just ‘happened’ to Nepal. Rather it has been the product of an ongoing ‘encounter’ between Westerners longing to discover and experience a place of ‘otherness’ untouch
What to Do with Surveillance Capitalism
Every now and then a book comes along that forces one to radically question the way the world works. The power of such books stems from their ability to expose the hidden “laws of motion” that anim
A single narrative will not do
In recent years, scholars working across a range of disciplines have become increasingly interested in exploring the contours and machinations of digital capitalism. Celebrants extoll the way digital technologies are enhancing processes of capital accumulation, rendering employment more flexible, democractizing innovation, and making new forms of economic co-operation possible. By contrast, skeptics warn that digital technologies are being used t…
Amazon Go, surveillance capitalism, and the ideology of convenience
How does convenience operate not just as a highly coveted consumer good that stands to mitigate the demands of life in a fast-paced society but also as an ideology that is integral to new forms of capital accumulation, domination, and extraction? Taking Shoshana Zuboff's work on surveillance capitalism as a departure point, in this article I explore this question by focusing on one of Amazon's newest business initiatives, Amazon Go. Launched in 2…
Funding Immortality
Cet article examine comment les fondations philanthropiques assurent à la techno-élite Américaine les moyens essentiels pour leur poursuite de « l’immortalité symbolique » (Lifton et Olson 1974). Récemment on a vu beaucoup d’intérêt dans « l’industrie de l’immortalité » : la façon que la technogentsia poursuit l’immortalité à travers les technologies comme la pharmacologie radicale, le clonage de l’esprit (mindcloning), et même la cryogénie. Pour…
Boredom in the age of Covid-19
This article explores how boredom emerged as a central threat to Americans’ sense of well-being in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing upon media coverage from a range of sources, I ask: What do responses to the COVID-19 pandemic reveal more generally about the way boredom has emerged as one of the central dis-eases of modern life? Why has free time become something that increasingly generates intolerable anxiety? In what ways can st…
Activating the senses
The Transpecies Society is an association of cyborg artists and activists "that gives voice to nonhuman identities; raises awareness of the challenges transpecies face; advocates for the freedom of self-design and offers the development of new senses and organs." This article explores how members of The Transpecies Society use sensory modification as a form of artistic expression and political activism. It asks, how do transpeciests seek to "stre…
The Magic, Science, and Religion of Pet Cloning
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)