Joseph Dumit
Biographic Data
| ID | 433411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Dumit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Dumit |
| SIGNATURE | DUMIT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9709-4650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 347 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Slow partying and supportive napping, how lichen will be known
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Substance as Method: Bromine, for Example
Games and Public Anthropology
Multimodal anthropologists are using games and game design as a method for producing ethnographic knowledge collaboratively with research participants and as a genre for communicating anthropological knowledge with varied publics. As a methodological approach and a rhetorical genre, games offer unique affordances in that they highlight the dynamic interplay of structures, systems, rules, and norms on the one hand, and contingency, interaction, an…
Set, Setting, and Clinical Trials: Colonial Technologies and Psychedelics
Substance as Method: Bromine, for Example
[Re]moving Bodies – A Shared Diminished Reality Installation for Exploring Relational Movement
In this article we explore an epistemic approach we name dis/embodiment and introduce "Articulations," an interdisciplinary project bringing together Virtual Reality (VR) designers, cognitive scientists, dancers, anthropologists, and human-machine interaction specialists. According to Erin Manning, our sense of self and other emerges from processes of bodying and relational movement (becoming oneself by moving in relation with the world). The aim…
Anthropological Futures
In Anthropological Futures, Michael M. J. Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. Through linked essays, which are both speculative and experimental, Fischer seeks to break new ground for anthropology by illuminating the field's broad analytical capacity …
The Infernal Alternatives of Corporate Pharmaceutical Research: Abandoning Psychiatry
What happens when health research is measured by market size? How does this change the dynamics of medical research, and how is its growth envisioned and managed? In this article, I build on my arguments in Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define our Health, which focused primarily on the development and marketing of mass medications for heart disease and I examine the market dynamics that are used to drive research into and out of ps…
Game Design as STS Research
Game design offers a powerful pedagogical paradigm for engaging students in thinking and researching sociotechnical systems. Using the example of designing a game around fracking, this paper describes how game design grapples with emergent dynamic processes, and how students are drawn into becoming STS researchers
Writing the Implosion: Teaching the World One Thing at a Time
This article puts a reading of Gilles Deleuze's Cinema 2 in dialogue with Donna Haraway's works and methods. Working through the former helps me unpack the process of Haraway's inquisitive "implosion" method and some of its aims better. I describe this as exploring how the world is interconnected one process and thing at a time, how these connections are vitally and politically important, and how this work is inexhaustible. Following this exegesi…
Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health
Every year the average number of prescriptions purchased by Americans increases, as do healthcare expenditures, which are projected to reach one-fifth of the U.S. gross domestic product by 2020. In Drugs for Life, Joseph Dumit considers how our burgeoning consumption of medicine and cost of healthcare not only came to be, but also came to be taken for granted. For several years, Dumit attended pharmaceutical industry conferences; spoke with marke…
An Epistemology of the Concrete: Twentieth-Century Histories of Life
Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate
Inter-pill-ation and the instrumentalization of compliance
Visions of Illness: An Endography of Real-Time Medical Imaging by Maud Rastake
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization
Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples' Global Action (PGA)-including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle-anti-corporate globalization activists have staged direct action protests against multilateral institutions in cities such as Prague, Barcelona, Genoa, and Cancun. Barcelona is a critical node, as Catalan activists have played key roles in the more radical PGA network and the…
The End Of An Era
Informated Health And Ethical Identity Management
Citizen Neuroethics
Illnesses you have to fight to get: Facts as forces in uncertain, emergent illnesses
Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity
By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our minds. Picturing Personhood follows this remarkable and expensive technology from the laboratory into the world and back. It examines how PET scans are created and how they are being called on to answer myriad questions with far-reaching implications: Is depression an observable brain disease…
Is It Me or My Brain? Depression and Neuroscientific Facts
Objective Brains, Prejudicial Images
The ArgumentIn this article I argue that brain images constructed with computerized tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are part of a category of "expert images" and are both visually persuasive and also particularly difficult to interpret and understand by non-experts. Following the innovative judicial analogy of "demonstrative evidence" traced by Jennifer Mnookin (1998), I show how brain images are more than mere illustration…
God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World
God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World. Christopher P. Toumey. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. xl + 289 pp., bibliography, index
Illnesses you have to fight to get: Facts as forces in uncertain, emergent illnesses
Writing the Implosion: Teaching the World One Thing at a Time
This article puts a reading of Gilles Deleuze's Cinema 2 in dialogue with Donna Haraway's works and methods. Working through the former helps me unpack the process of Haraway's inquisitive "implosion" method and some of its aims better. I describe this as exploring how the world is interconnected one process and thing at a time, how these connections are vitally and politically important, and how this work is inexhaustible. Following this exegesi…
Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization
Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples' Global Action (PGA)-including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle-anti-corporate globalization activists have staged direct action protests against multilateral institutions in cities such as Prague, Barcelona, Genoa, and Cancun. Barcelona is a critical node, as Catalan activists have played key roles in the more radical PGA network and the…
Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity
By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our minds. Picturing Personhood follows this remarkable and expensive technology from the laboratory into the world and back. It examines how PET scans are created and how they are being called on to answer myriad questions with far-reaching implications: Is depression an observable brain disease…
Cyborg Anthropology
The following is the text of a paper we presented at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco. It represents a first attempt at positioning cyborg anthropology in a late capitalist world that situates academic theorizing alongside popular theorizing. We view cyborg anthropology as a descriptive label that marks a cultural project rather than an elite academic practice. In other words, cyborg anthropolog…
Objective Brains, Prejudicial Images
The ArgumentIn this article I argue that brain images constructed with computerized tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are part of a category of "expert images" and are both visually persuasive and also particularly difficult to interpret and understand by non-experts. Following the innovative judicial analogy of "demonstrative evidence" traced by Jennifer Mnookin (1998), I show how brain images are more than mere illustration…
Inter-pill-ation and the instrumentalization of compliance
The Infernal Alternatives of Corporate Pharmaceutical Research: Abandoning Psychiatry
What happens when health research is measured by market size? How does this change the dynamics of medical research, and how is its growth envisioned and managed? In this article, I build on my arguments in Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define our Health, which focused primarily on the development and marketing of mass medications for heart disease and I examine the market dynamics that are used to drive research into and out of ps…
God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World
God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World. Christopher P. Toumey. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. xl + 289 pp., bibliography, index
Slow partying and supportive napping, how lichen will be known
Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article
Technoculture: Another, More Material, Name for Postmodern Culture
quot;If we want technology to liberate rather than destroy us, then we, the techno/peasants, have to assume responsibility for it."-- The Techno/Peasant Survival Manual [1] Perhaps the question is, what isn't technoculture? The two parts of this word, techno(logy) and culture are actively contested in contemporary social criticism. Donna Haraway, for instance, has read the logos of techne as "translatable/transferable technique", and then more cl…
Cyborg Anthropology
The following is the text of a paper we presented at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco. It represents a first attempt at positioning cyborg anthropology in a late capitalist world that situates academic theorizing alongside popular theorizing. We view cyborg anthropology as a descriptive label that marks a cultural project rather than an elite academic practice. In other words, cyborg anthropolog…
God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World
God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World. Christopher P. Toumey. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. xl + 289 pp., bibliography, index
Objective Brains, Prejudicial Images
The ArgumentIn this article I argue that brain images constructed with computerized tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are part of a category of "expert images" and are both visually persuasive and also particularly difficult to interpret and understand by non-experts. Following the innovative judicial analogy of "demonstrative evidence" traced by Jennifer Mnookin (1998), I show how brain images are more than mere illustration…
Is It Me or My Brain? Depression and Neuroscientific Facts
Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity
By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our minds. Picturing Personhood follows this remarkable and expensive technology from the laboratory into the world and back. It examines how PET scans are created and how they are being called on to answer myriad questions with far-reaching implications: Is depression an observable brain disease…
Informated Health And Ethical Identity Management
Citizen Neuroethics
Illnesses you have to fight to get: Facts as forces in uncertain, emergent illnesses
The End Of An Era
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization
Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples' Global Action (PGA)-including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle-anti-corporate globalization activists have staged direct action protests against multilateral institutions in cities such as Prague, Barcelona, Genoa, and Cancun. Barcelona is a critical node, as Catalan activists have played key roles in the more radical PGA network and the…
Visions of Illness: An Endography of Real-Time Medical Imaging by Maud Rastake
An Epistemology of the Concrete: Twentieth-Century Histories of Life
Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate
Inter-pill-ation and the instrumentalization of compliance
Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health
Every year the average number of prescriptions purchased by Americans increases, as do healthcare expenditures, which are projected to reach one-fifth of the U.S. gross domestic product by 2020. In Drugs for Life, Joseph Dumit considers how our burgeoning consumption of medicine and cost of healthcare not only came to be, but also came to be taken for granted. For several years, Dumit attended pharmaceutical industry conferences; spoke with marke…
Writing the Implosion: Teaching the World One Thing at a Time
This article puts a reading of Gilles Deleuze's Cinema 2 in dialogue with Donna Haraway's works and methods. Working through the former helps me unpack the process of Haraway's inquisitive "implosion" method and some of its aims better. I describe this as exploring how the world is interconnected one process and thing at a time, how these connections are vitally and politically important, and how this work is inexhaustible. Following this exegesi…
Game Design as STS Research
Game design offers a powerful pedagogical paradigm for engaging students in thinking and researching sociotechnical systems. Using the example of designing a game around fracking, this paper describes how game design grapples with emergent dynamic processes, and how students are drawn into becoming STS researchers
The Infernal Alternatives of Corporate Pharmaceutical Research: Abandoning Psychiatry
What happens when health research is measured by market size? How does this change the dynamics of medical research, and how is its growth envisioned and managed? In this article, I build on my arguments in Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define our Health, which focused primarily on the development and marketing of mass medications for heart disease and I examine the market dynamics that are used to drive research into and out of ps…
Anthropological Futures
In Anthropological Futures, Michael M. J. Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. Through linked essays, which are both speculative and experimental, Fischer seeks to break new ground for anthropology by illuminating the field's broad analytical capacity …
Substance as Method: Bromine, for Example
[Re]moving Bodies – A Shared Diminished Reality Installation for Exploring Relational Movement
In this article we explore an epistemic approach we name dis/embodiment and introduce "Articulations," an interdisciplinary project bringing together Virtual Reality (VR) designers, cognitive scientists, dancers, anthropologists, and human-machine interaction specialists. According to Erin Manning, our sense of self and other emerges from processes of bodying and relational movement (becoming oneself by moving in relation with the world). The aim…
Substance as Method: Bromine, for Example
Games and Public Anthropology
Multimodal anthropologists are using games and game design as a method for producing ethnographic knowledge collaboratively with research participants and as a genre for communicating anthropological knowledge with varied publics. As a methodological approach and a rhetorical genre, games offer unique affordances in that they highlight the dynamic interplay of structures, systems, rules, and norms on the one hand, and contingency, interaction, an…
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