Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated ActionsCambridge University Press, 4. dets 2006 - 314 pages This 2007 book considers how agencies are currently figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Contrary to the apparent enlivening of objects promised by the sciences of the artificial, the author proposes that the rhetorics and practices of those sciences work to obscure the performative nature of both persons and things. The question then shifts from debates over the status of human-like machines, to that of how humans and machines are enacted as similar or different in practice, and with what theoretical, practical and political consequences. Drawing on scholarship across the social sciences, humanities and computing, the author argues for research aimed at tracing the differences within specific sociomaterial arrangements without resorting to essentialist divides. This requires expanding our unit of analysis, while recognizing the inevitable cuts or boundaries through which technological systems are constituted. |
Contents
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Section 2 | 24 |
Section 3 | 29 |
Section 4 | 33 |
Section 5 | 51 |
Section 6 | 69 |
Section 7 | 85 |
Section 8 | 109 |
Section 11 | 187 |
Section 12 | 206 |
Section 13 | 226 |
Section 14 | 235 |
Section 15 | 236 |
Section 16 | 237 |
Section 17 | 241 |
Section 18 | 248 |
Section 9 | 125 |
Section 10 | 176 |
Section 19 | 259 |
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Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions Lucille Alice Suchman Limited preview - 2007 |
Human-machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions Lucille Alice Suchman No preview available - 2007 |
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