Christopher Kelty
Biographic Data
| ID | 643675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Kelty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelty |
| SIGNATURE | KELTY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, USA, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The coyote in the cloud
Coyotes (Canis latrans) exist throughout North America and increasingly thrive in dense urban spaces; they also cause controversies when they eat small pets or seem to pose a threat. Based on fieldwork in Los Angeles, and an archive of over 400 conversations collected from the online application Nextdoor (2015-2019), we theorize the emergence of what we call the cloud coyote. Cloud coyotes are not representations but lively actors in coyote polit…
Geeks and Recursive Publics: How the Internet and Free Software Make Things Public
Collaboration, Coordination, and Composition: Fieldwork after the Internet
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Scholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena. In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communicati…
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Beyond Copyright and Technology: What Open Access Can Tell Us about Precarity, Authority, Innovation, and Automation in the University Today
In this interview, we discuss what open access can teach us about the state of the university, as well as practices in scholarly publishing. In particular the focus is on issues of labor and precarity, the question of how open access enables or blocks other innovations in scholarship, the way open access might be changing practices of scholarship, and the role of technology and automation in the creation, evaluation, and circulation of scholarly …
The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology
The Politics of Crowds calls itself a mild-mannered ‘alternative history’ of sociology, but it is more an erudite and sprawling conceptual history. Taking as its starting point the peculiar status
Responsibility and nanotechnology
In this paper we argue that the concept and practice of responsibility is being transformed within science and engineering. It tells the story of attempts by nanotechnologists to make responsibility ‘do-able’ and calculable in a setting where the established language and tools of risk and risk analysis are seen as inadequate. The research is based on ethnographic participant-observation at the National Science Foundation-funded Center for Biologi…
Introduction: Culture In, Culture Out
Here are three essays dealing with computers. I intend that to sound sort of like are three essays dealing with ritual or are three essays dealing with kinship-to sound as if it were entirely unsurprising to open up a copy of Anthropological Quarterly and see three essays about computers, alongside three on social organization, religion, or pragmatics and ideology. It should be entirely unremarkable by now that computers are involved in social an…
Ten thousand journal articles later: Ethnography of "The literature" in science
El artículo explora las dificultades que, para la historia de la ciencia y la tecnología del siglo XX, supone la lectura de un gran número de artículos científicos. Se argumenta que hay tensión entre dos estrategias distintas: la lectura en detalle de los artículos clave y el análisis de citaciones y otros métodos automáticos de rastrear la literatura. El desafío que supone alternar estos dos métodos y la necesidad de mantener una aproximación in…
Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive by Johannes Fabian Memory against Culture: Arguments and Reminders by Johannes Fabian
"Global "Body Shopping: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry by Biao Xiang Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization by A. Aneesh
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Three Years of Savage Minds: From Blog to Scholarly Civil Society
The State of Open Access Anthropology
Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico by Joseph Masco
Open Source Experiments: What They Show About the Analyst's Frustrations in Intelligence Communities
Coding For Meaning
Verb Awry; Economy
Kroker. Arthur The Will to Technolog y and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche & Marx Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 2004
Understanding Nanotechnology Anthropologically
Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics
This article investigates the social, technical, and legal affiliations among "geeks" (hackers, lawyers, activists, and IT entrepreneurs) on the Internet. The mode of association specific to this group is that of a "recursive public sphere" constituted by a shared imaginary of the technical and legal conditions of possibility for their own association. On the basis of fieldwork conducted in the United States, Europe, and India, I argue that geeks…
Verb Awry; Economy: The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche & Marx
Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics
This article investigates the social, technical, and legal affiliations among "geeks" (hackers, lawyers, activists, and IT entrepreneurs) on the Internet. The mode of association specific to this group is that of a "recursive public sphere" constituted by a shared imaginary of the technical and legal conditions of possibility for their own association. On the basis of fieldwork conducted in the United States, Europe, and India, I argue that geeks…
Beyond Copyright and Technology: What Open Access Can Tell Us about Precarity, Authority, Innovation, and Automation in the University Today
In this interview, we discuss what open access can teach us about the state of the university, as well as practices in scholarly publishing. In particular the focus is on issues of labor and precarity, the question of how open access enables or blocks other innovations in scholarship, the way open access might be changing practices of scholarship, and the role of technology and automation in the creation, evaluation, and circulation of scholarly …
Responsibility and nanotechnology
In this paper we argue that the concept and practice of responsibility is being transformed within science and engineering. It tells the story of attempts by nanotechnologists to make responsibility ‘do-able’ and calculable in a setting where the established language and tools of risk and risk analysis are seen as inadequate. The research is based on ethnographic participant-observation at the National Science Foundation-funded Center for Biologi…
Introduction: Culture In, Culture Out
Here are three essays dealing with computers. I intend that to sound sort of like are three essays dealing with ritual or are three essays dealing with kinship-to sound as if it were entirely unsurprising to open up a copy of Anthropological Quarterly and see three essays about computers, alongside three on social organization, religion, or pragmatics and ideology. It should be entirely unremarkable by now that computers are involved in social an…
The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology
The Politics of Crowds calls itself a mild-mannered ‘alternative history’ of sociology, but it is more an erudite and sprawling conceptual history. Taking as its starting point the peculiar status
Three Years of Savage Minds: From Blog to Scholarly Civil Society
Verb Awry; Economy
Kroker. Arthur The Will to Technolog y and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche & Marx Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 2004
Understanding Nanotechnology Anthropologically
Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics
This article investigates the social, technical, and legal affiliations among "geeks" (hackers, lawyers, activists, and IT entrepreneurs) on the Internet. The mode of association specific to this group is that of a "recursive public sphere" constituted by a shared imaginary of the technical and legal conditions of possibility for their own association. On the basis of fieldwork conducted in the United States, Europe, and India, I argue that geeks…
Verb Awry; Economy: The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche & Marx
Coding For Meaning
Open Source Experiments: What They Show About the Analyst's Frustrations in Intelligence Communities
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Three Years of Savage Minds: From Blog to Scholarly Civil Society
The State of Open Access Anthropology
Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico by Joseph Masco
Ten thousand journal articles later: Ethnography of "The literature" in science
El artículo explora las dificultades que, para la historia de la ciencia y la tecnología del siglo XX, supone la lectura de un gran número de artículos científicos. Se argumenta que hay tensión entre dos estrategias distintas: la lectura en detalle de los artículos clave y el análisis de citaciones y otros métodos automáticos de rastrear la literatura. El desafío que supone alternar estos dos métodos y la necesidad de mantener una aproximación in…
Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive by Johannes Fabian Memory against Culture: Arguments and Reminders by Johannes Fabian
"Global "Body Shopping: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry by Biao Xiang Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization by A. Aneesh
Responsibility and nanotechnology
In this paper we argue that the concept and practice of responsibility is being transformed within science and engineering. It tells the story of attempts by nanotechnologists to make responsibility ‘do-able’ and calculable in a setting where the established language and tools of risk and risk analysis are seen as inadequate. The research is based on ethnographic participant-observation at the National Science Foundation-funded Center for Biologi…
Introduction: Culture In, Culture Out
Here are three essays dealing with computers. I intend that to sound sort of like are three essays dealing with ritual or are three essays dealing with kinship-to sound as if it were entirely unsurprising to open up a copy of Anthropological Quarterly and see three essays about computers, alongside three on social organization, religion, or pragmatics and ideology. It should be entirely unremarkable by now that computers are involved in social an…
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Scholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena. In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communicati…
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Beyond Copyright and Technology: What Open Access Can Tell Us about Precarity, Authority, Innovation, and Automation in the University Today
In this interview, we discuss what open access can teach us about the state of the university, as well as practices in scholarly publishing. In particular the focus is on issues of labor and precarity, the question of how open access enables or blocks other innovations in scholarship, the way open access might be changing practices of scholarship, and the role of technology and automation in the creation, evaluation, and circulation of scholarly …
The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology
The Politics of Crowds calls itself a mild-mannered ‘alternative history’ of sociology, but it is more an erudite and sprawling conceptual history. Taking as its starting point the peculiar status
Collaboration, Coordination, and Composition: Fieldwork after the Internet
Geeks and Recursive Publics: How the Internet and Free Software Make Things Public
The coyote in the cloud
Coyotes (Canis latrans) exist throughout North America and increasingly thrive in dense urban spaces; they also cause controversies when they eat small pets or seem to pose a threat. Based on fieldwork in Los Angeles, and an archive of over 400 conversations collected from the online application Nextdoor (2015-2019), we theorize the emergence of what we call the cloud coyote. Cloud coyotes are not representations but lively actors in coyote polit…
Computer Science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Citation (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Library science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)