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In an era of digital revolution, artificial intelligence, big data
and augmented reality, technology has shifted from being a tool of
communication to a primary medium of experience and sociality. Some
of the most basic human capacities are increasingly being
outsourced to machines and we increasingly experience and interpret
the world through digital interfaces, with machines becoming ever
more 'social' beings. Social interaction and human perception are
being reshaped in unprecedented ways. This book explores this
technologisation of the social and the attendant penetration of
permanent liminality into those aspects of the lifeworld where
individuals had previously sought some kind of stability and
meaning. Through a historical and anthropological examination of
this phenomenon, it problematises the underlying logic of limitless
technological expansion and our increasing inability to imagine
either ourselves or our world in other than technological terms.
Drawing on a variety of concepts from political anthropology,
including liminality, the trickster, imitation, schismogenesis,
participation, and the void, it interrogates the contemporary
technological revolution in a manner that will be of interest to
sociologists, social and anthropological theorists and scholars of
science and technology studies with interests in the digital
transformation of social life.
This book offers a theoretical investigation into the general
problem of reality as a multiplicity of 'finite provinces of
meaning', as developed in the work of Alfred Schutz. A critical
introduction to Schutz's sociology of multiple realities as well as
a sympathetic re-reading and reconstruction of his project,
Experiencing Multiple Realities traces the genesis and implications
of this concept in Schutz's writings before presenting an analysis
of various ways in which it can shed light on major sociological
problems, such as social action, social time, social space,
identity, or narrativity.
This book offers a theoretical investigation into the general
problem of reality as a multiplicity of 'finite provinces of
meaning', as developed in the work of Alfred Schutz. A critical
introduction to Schutz's sociology of multiple realities as well as
a sympathetic re-reading and reconstruction of his project,
Experiencing Multiple Realities traces the genesis and implications
of this concept in Schutz's writings before presenting an analysis
of various ways in which it can shed light on major sociological
problems, such as social action, social time, social space,
identity, or narrativity.
Contemporary challenges related to walls, borders and encirclement,
such as migration, integration and endemic historical conflicts,
can only be understood properly from a long-term perspective. This
book seeks to go beyond conventional definitions of the long duree
by locating the social practice of walling and encirclement in the
broadest context of human history, integrating insights from
archaeology and anthropology. Such an approach, far from being
simply academic, has crucial contemporary relevance, as its focus
on origins helps to locate the essential dynamics of this practice,
and provides a rare external position from which to view the
phenomenon as a transformative exercise, with the area walled
serving as an artificial womb or matrix. The modern world, with its
ingrained ideas of borders, nation states and other entities, often
makes it is very difficult to gain a critical distance and
detachment to see beyond conventional perspectives. The unique
approach of this book offers an antidote to this problem. Cases
discussed in the book range from Palaeolithic caves, the ancient
walls of Goebekli Tepe, Jericho and Babylon, to the foundation of
Rome, the Chinese Empire, medieval Europe and the Berlin Wall. The
book also looks at contemporary developments such as the
Palestinian wall, Eastern and Southern European examples, Trump's
proposed Mexican wall, the use of Greece as a bulwark containing
migration flows and the transformative experience of voluntary work
in a Calcutta hospice. In doing so, the book offers a political
anthropology of one of the most fundamental yet perennially
problematic human practices: the constructing of walls. As such, it
will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and political
theory.
Contemporary challenges related to walls, borders and encirclement,
such as migration, integration and endemic historical conflicts,
can only be understood properly from a long-term perspective. This
book seeks to go beyond conventional definitions of the long duree
by locating the social practice of walling and encirclement in the
broadest context of human history, integrating insights from
archaeology and anthropology. Such an approach, far from being
simply academic, has crucial contemporary relevance, as its focus
on origins helps to locate the essential dynamics of this practice,
and provides a rare external position from which to view the
phenomenon as a transformative exercise, with the area walled
serving as an artificial womb or matrix. The modern world, with its
ingrained ideas of borders, nation states and other entities, often
makes it is very difficult to gain a critical distance and
detachment to see beyond conventional perspectives. The unique
approach of this book offers an antidote to this problem. Cases
discussed in the book range from Palaeolithic caves, the ancient
walls of Goebekli Tepe, Jericho and Babylon, to the foundation of
Rome, the Chinese Empire, medieval Europe and the Berlin Wall. The
book also looks at contemporary developments such as the
Palestinian wall, Eastern and Southern European examples, Trump's
proposed Mexican wall, the use of Greece as a bulwark containing
migration flows and the transformative experience of voluntary work
in a Calcutta hospice. In doing so, the book offers a political
anthropology of one of the most fundamental yet perennially
problematic human practices: the constructing of walls. As such, it
will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and political
theory.
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