An anthropology of futures and technologies / edited by Débora Lanzeni, Karen Waltorp, Sarah Pink, Rachel C. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lanzeni, Débora, editor.

Waltorp, Karen, editor.

Pink, Sarah, editor.

Smith, Rachel Charlotte, editor.

Park-Choi Fund for Anthropology Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological forecasting.

Social prediction.

Anthropology--Research.

Anthropology.

Future, The.

Physical Description:

xii, 180 pages: illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

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. Taking the next step, this book asserts that anthropology must now propose alternative ways, rooted in ethnography, to approach and engage with what is coming and to contest dominant narratives of industry, policy and government, and to respond to our contemporary context through a public, vocal and interventional approach"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Park-Choi Fund for Anthropology Studies.

ISBN:

9781350144927

1350144924

9781350144910

1350144916

OCLC:

1341446979

Publisher Number:

99993695431