Human No More Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology

Name: Human No More Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology
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ISBN: 9781607321897

ISBN-10: 1607321890

ISBN-13: 9781607321897

Edition: 2012

Authors: Neil L. Whitehead, Michael Wesch

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Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace,Human No Moreexplores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities.Online worlds have recently thrown into question the traditional anthropological conception of place-based ethnography. They break definitions, blur distinctions, and force us to rethink the notion of the "subject."Human No More askshow digital cultures can be integrated and how the ethnography of both the "unhuman" and the "digital" could lead to possible reconfiguring the notion of the "human." This provocative and groundbreaking work challenges fundamental assumptions about the entire field of anthropology.…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication date: 8/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Michael Wesch is an associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University.



Introduction: Human No More




The Mutual Co-Construction of Online and Onground in Cyborganic: Making an Ethnography of Networked Social Media Speak to Challenges of the Posthuman




We Were Always Human




Manufacturing and Encountering "Human" in the Age of Digital Reproduction




The Digital Graveyard: Online Social Networking Sites as Vehicles of Remembrance




Anonymous, Anonymity, and the End(s) of Identity and Groups Online: Lessons from the "First Internet-Based Superconsciousness"




Splitting and Layering at the Interface: Mediating Indian Diasporas across Generations




Avatar: A Posthuman Perspective on Virtual Worlds




Technology, Representation, and the "E-thropologist": The Shape-Shifting Field among Native Amazonians




The Adventures of Mark and Olly: The Pleasures and Horrors of Anthropology on TV




Invisible Caboclos and Vagabond Ethnographers: A Look at Ethnographic Engagement in Twenty-First-Century Amazonia




Marginal Bodies, Altered States, and Subhumans: (Dis)Articulations between Physical and Virtual Realities in Centro, Sï¿½o Paulo




Are We There Yet? The End of Anthropology Is Beyond the Human



Afterword



List of Contributors


Index