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• Stefan Helmreich
  ...1995). He has worked as a Postdoctoral Associate in Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, an External Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Cri ...%20is%20a%20verb__.pdf "Life is a Verb": Inflections of Artificial Life in Cultural Context. Artificial Life 12(2): 189-201.]
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• Defining Cyborg Anthropology
  Thus Cyborg Anthropology studies humankind and its relations with the technological systems it has built, sp ...iety. It is directly situated within the paradigm that cyborg anthropology studies, and seeks to use this paradigm to study society as a cybernetic system. In
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• Hypersigls and the Second Self
  The Human Body as Cultural Metaphor in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Machine-Age Utopias to Digital-Era ...ealities. How our bodies interact with and accommodate technology inspires cultural debates on the nature of being. How our physical relationships with technol
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• 1 Introduction
  ...some context as to the format of this book. Cyborg Anthropology, in short, studies the culture of new technologies that are re-defining our traditional notion ...activity of theorizing and as a vehicle for enhancing the participation of cultural anthropologists in contemporary sciences”<ref>Downey, Gary Lee, Joseph Du
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• Notes on MySpace and Legendary Psychasthenia
  <blockquote>"Will Merrin posted a fascinating essay at Media Studies 2.o back in September, which I have only just now got around to reading. He ...dless of the personal meaning one attaches to one’s choices and even the cultural connotations implied by them, all are nullified by their appearance. Prefer
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• Questions for Wired Magazine
  ...into sets of similar stories or responses. From there I can understand the cultural system as a whole. This generally has great use value to a company that wan Participant observation. For studies over time such as understanding developer communities and startup culture,
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• Do Androids Dream of Electric Speech
  ...a response to that injunction and as a jumping-off point for more in-depth studies of the construction of the CI identity and the implications of these constr ....S., you can call a person deaf, Deaf (the “D” representing a specific cultural and political identity), hearing impaired, hard of hearing – and each gra
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• Cyborg Literature
  by Journal of International Women's Studies ...the schizophrenic and the cyborg are concepts well circulated in cultural studies but seldom, if ever, critically compared. This article confronts the concep
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• Non Places
  ...nd sparked discussions in the fields of anthropology, sociology, and urban studies. ...and emotional attachment, contrasting with traditional "places" that carry cultural and historical significance. Augé identifies airports, shopping malls, tra
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• Grid-group cultural theory
  '''Grid-Group Cultural Theory''' is a sociological framework and cultural theory developed by Mary Douglas, Michael Thompson, and Steve Rayner, with ...grounded in the idea that human societies can be classified into specific cultural types based on two primary dimensions: "grid" and "group." These dimensions
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• Human Scale Design
  ...n small spaces. Work to celebrate and preserve cultural history. Donate to cultural institutions. Make no demands in return. Leave your mind open. ...ooks at them from the perspective of an ethnologist who has a new field of studies to explore.
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