Body-hacking
On the Relationship between People and Material Entities in the Practice of Technological Body Modifications
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6147170 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jana Kadlecová (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-63 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | HISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1804-0616 • E-ISSN: 2336-3525 |
| Publisher | Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14712/23363525.2020.4 |
| OpenAlex | W3024198835 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
The text focuses on a critical reflection on research conducted among Czech bodyhackers and, in general, on the possibilities and limitations of the conceptualization of the body, which is a product of technohuman interconnections, in socialscientific research. This issue logically directs me towards theoretical and conceptual foundations of symmetrical anthropology taking into account the role of nonhuman actors and the materiality of the world (based on the works of Bruno Latour, John Law, etc.) which constitute the core of the text. This study critically reflects upon the traditional foundations of social sciences that deal with an individual’s subjective perspective when studying corporeality. This leads to a reproduction of the dichotomy of subject/object and body/mind which are revealed as restrictive in the research of technological modifications and cybercorporeality in general and require a clear definition of the concepts of the “body” and “technologies” that are, however, limiting from the point of view of the lived experience of their users. The question arises of where the human body ends and technologies begin, whether the human body in its “natural” state has a certain integrity. This approach is demonstrated in the text on the case of Czech body-hackers, the NFC chip users
Aesthetics · Body of knowledge · Conceptualization · Epistemology · Hacker · Human body · Materiality (auditing · Object (grammar · Philosophy of technology · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Science Studies
How We Became Posthuman
In the Flesh
For a Sociology of the Body
Embodiment and experience
Beyond nature and culture
Posthuman Critical Theory
The Ontological Turn
Reassembling the Social
Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time
The Second Self
Posthuman Critical Theory
Posthumanist Performativity
The Order of Things
A Practical Guide to Posthumans
Entangled Agencies
Critical Perspectives on Digital Health Technologies
The Zimbabwe Bush Pump
Things Are Us! A Commentary on Human/Things Relations under the Banner of a ‘Social’ Archaeology
The Perception of the Environment
Self-tracking in the Digital Era
Embodied Action, Enacted Bodies
The End of the Body
Bodies That Matter
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The Mindful Body
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology
How to Talk About the Body? the Normative Dimension of Science Studies
Multiple Ontologies and the Problem of the Body in History
Techniques of the body∗
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |