Human-Machine Reconfigurations - Plans and Situated Actions (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

This 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 recent 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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
Release date:	December 2006
First published:	2007
Authors:	Lucy Suchman
Dimensions:	228 x 153 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	314
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-67588-8
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Human-computer interaction Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Technical design > Ergonomics Promotions
LSN:	0-521-67588-X
Barcode:	9780521675888

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