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Index
Cover
Table of Contents
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: Questioning Connectivity
Circulation and Connectivity
Connectivity and remoteness
Knowledge, data and post-humanitarianism
Boomerang effect
Structure of the Book
Notes
Chapter 2: Against Hierarchy
Spirit of Capitalism
Against hierarchy
Progressive neoliberalism
Death of the social
Mobility v. immobility
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 3: Entropic Barbarism
Precursors of Revolution
The Sovereign Subject
Negative dialectic
Resisting entropy
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 4: Being There
Theoretical Practice
New Anthropology
Fieldwork in Sudan
Dignity of distance
Structural method
Being there
Outcomes
Postscript
Notes
Chapter 5: Fantastic Invasion
Direct Humanitarian Action
New Ontology of Disaster
Empty the camps
The steersman
Theory to Complexity
Environmental exposure
Early warning
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 6: Livelihood Regime
Project Form
Social reproduction
Programming Poverty
Local knowledge
Computer learning
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 7: Instilling Remoteness
Fortified Aid Compound
Reducing circulation
Dangerous world
Securing failure
Personalizing Security
Permanent threat
Internal strength
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 8: Edge of Catastrophe
Global Precarity
Registers of informality
North goes South
Recycling Poverty
Techno-pastoral 1
Notes
Chapter 9: Connecting Precarity
Levelling Downwards
Electronic atmosphere
Expanding the Enclave
Techno-pastoral 2
Notes
Chapter 10: Post-humanitarianism
Remote Sensing
Seeing is believing
Crisis Informatics
Growing impact
Enabling resilience
Homo inscius
Distributed information systems
Decentralizing power
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 11: Living Wild
Humanitarian Design
Cash transfer
Water
Emergency shelter
Energy
Sanitation
Therapeutic foods
Self-help apps
Drone delivery
Individuation
Indignant Objects
Connected logic
User communities
Measuring Success
Ethical irony
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 12: Conclusion: Automating Precarity
Cognitive Turn
Mental precarity
Feedback
Optimizing reproduction
Caretaker Society
Paradox of Connectivity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
End User License Agreement
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