Dis/connection Matters
Natural, Synthetic, and Digital
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21264068 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Filipe Calvão, Matthieu Bolay (0000-0003-0005-1302), L Bell (0000-0001-5750-3838) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Pages | 7-17 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2813-5229 • E-ISSN: 2813-5237 |
| Publisher | University of Bern (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.36950/tsantsa.2021.26.7680 |
| OpenAlex | W3173944642 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
The world is experiencing new relations and transformations between natural, synthetic, and digital substances. Rather than considering these as materially distinct or ontologically separate, this Special Issue of TSANTSA interrogates how they are interlocked in socio-material processes of mediation, transmutation, and valuation. By conceptualizing the specificity of their separateness, the special issue makes possible the comparison and commensuration of their relationship, and to move beyond their essential qualities. What are the boundaries, leakages, or dis/connections between human and digital, natural and artificial, the organic and synthetic matters? Based on ethnographic research in laboratories, gold refineries, bio-tech microbial seeds and digitally-produced natural sounds, human-machine apps and cellular agriculture, each contribution theorizes the mediation, transmutation, and valuation of natural synthetics, the humanness of artificial intelligence, or the materiality of digital elements
Aesthetics · Art · Business · Epistemology · Ethnography · Mediation · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Digital Media and Philosophy · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Philosophy · Psychology
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Grundrisse
Introduction
Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism
Friction
Notes on Materiality and Sociality
Resocialing work? Anticipatory anthropology of the labor process
Human-Machine Reconfigurations
Purity and Danger
Hybrid Geographies
Coding Freedom
Difference and Dependence among Digital Workers
Out of the Pits
Techno-economic Networks and Irreversibility
Culture, Globalization, Mediation
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Vibrant Matter
Walls and white elephants
Toward an Ecology of Materials
Working for the Robocracy
Sociable robots, jazz music, and divination
Panics over Plastics
Toward an Anthropology of Computer-Mediated, Algorithmic Forms of Sociality
Troubles with Materiality
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |