An anthropology of futures and technologies

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    • Lanzeni, Débora
    • Waltorp, Karen
    • Smith, Rachel Charlotte

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An anthropology of futures and technologies

edited by Debora Lanzeni, Karen Waltorp, Sarah Pink, Rachel Charlotte Smith

Produced by Amazon, c2023

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Reprint. Originally published: New York, NY : Routledge , 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures. It asks how technological futures are being constituted and the roles anthropologists can play in their making; how anthropologists engage with emerging technologies within their fieldwork contexts in research which seeks to influence future design; how to create critical and interventional approaches to technology design and innovation; and how a critical anthropology of the way that emerging technologies are experienced in everyday life circumstances offers new insights for future making practices. In pursuing these questions, this book respond to a call for new anthropologies that respond to the current and emerging technological environments in which we live, environments for which thinking critically about the possible, plausible, and impossible futures are no longer sufficient. ...

Contents of Works

  • Complicating futures / Debora Lanzeni & Sarah Pink
  • Modelling the future? / Simone Abram and Antti Silvast
  • Innovation routes / Roxana Moroșanu Firth & Nathan Crilly
  • Digital anticipation / Sarah Pink, Laura Kelly and Harry Ferguson
  • Algorithmic futures and the unsettled sense of care / Minna Ruckenstein and Sonja Trifuljesko
  • Organising artificial intelligence and representing work / Bastian Jørgensen, Christopher Gad, Brit Ross Winthereik
  • Making sens of sensors / Ajda Pretnar and Dan Podjed
  • Drones as a gendered matter of concern / Karen Waltorp & Maja Hojer Bruun
  • Future mobility solutions? / Sarah Pink, Vaike Fors, Katalin Osz, Peter Lutz & Rachel Charlotte Smith
  • Sensor technologies and the surrealist impulse / Elizabeth de Freitas, Maggie MacLure & David Rousell

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Examines emergent technologies and systems Considers the implications and practicalities of an imagined future Demonstrates the value of anthropology in an increasingly technological world

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Complicating Futures 2. Modelling the Future? 3. Innovation routes 4. Digital Anticipation 5. Algorithmic futures and the unsettled sense of care 6. Organising artificial intelligence and representing work 7. Making sense of sensors 8. Drones as a gendered matter of concern 9. Future Mobility Solutions? 10. Eco-sensory technologies and the surrealist impulse Afterword

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