Techno-Humanity and the Anthropology of the Everyday

Occupation: Chief Researcher
Affiliation: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: 32a Leninsky prospekt, Moscow, 119991, Russia

Journal name

Etnograficheskoe obozrenie

Edition

Pages

54-65

Abstract

Current anthropology of the everyday lacks attention to technical artifacts and constant involvement of our bodies into, or their interactions with, technosphere. The on-going intensification of this involvement with digital and assistive technologies brings with it the imminent transformation of techno-humanity into cyberhumanity. The article describes the main mechanisms (such as extension and incorporation) that fuse the human body and its technical milieu into autonomous assemblages and hybrid entities. Finally, the author discusses the merits and limitations of autoethnography as a research method for the study of phenomenological or lived body.

Keywords

cyberhumanity, technosphere, lived body, extension, incorporation, autoethnography

Acknowledgment

This research was supported by the following institutions and grants: Russian Science Foundation, https://doi.org/10.13039/501100006769 [grant no. 18-18-00082]

Received

28.12.2018

Publication date

28.12.2018

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GOST	Sokolovskiy S. Techno-Humanity and the Anthropology of the Everyday // Etnograficheskoe obozrenie – 2018. – 6 C. 54-65 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/ethnorev/s207987840001640-3-1-en (circulation date: 27.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S086954150002452-7
MLA	Sokolovskiy, Sergey V "Techno-Humanity and the Anthropology of the Everyday." Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 6 (2018):54-65. DOI: 10.31857/S086954150002452-7
APA	Sokolovskiy S. (2018). Techno-Humanity and the Anthropology of the Everyday. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie (6), pp.54-65 DOI: 10.31857/S086954150002452-7

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