Human No More by Whitehead, Neil L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Introduction Human No More

HUMAN NO MORE? EXPLORING POSTHUMAN LIMITS AND POSSIBILITIES RETHINKING FIELDWORK IN THE AGE OF THE POSTHUMAN BEYOND HUMAN NO MORE REFERENCES

1. The Mutual Co-Construction of Online and Onground in Cyborganic

PART 1

PART 2

Challenges of the Posthuman

NOTES REFERENCES

2. We Were Always Human

EXTERNALIZATION AND REIFICATION OF THE SYMBOLIC IDENTITY EXPRESSION AND EXPERIMENTATION IN THE AGE OF FACEBOOK MEDIATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS EXTENDING HUMAN CAPABILITIES: FROM HUMAN TO ... HUMAN? REFERENCES

3. Manufacturing and Encountering “Human” in the Age of Digital Reproduction

HUMAN OR MACHINE CYBORG ANTHROPOLOGY AZ_TIFFANY REPRODUCING HUMAN BLURRING AND REESTABLISHING BOUNDARIES UPGRADING CYBORG ANTHROPOLOGY SAM ENCOUNTERING SAM CONCLUSIONS ... AND BEGINNINGS NOTES REFERENCES

4. The Digital Graveyard

DIGITAL TRACES, VIRTUAL PLACES MY(DEATH)SPACE DEATH IN THE TRIBE(.NET) SPECTERS OF FACEBOOK LIVING ON ONLINE NOTES REFERENCES

5. Anonymous, Anonymity, and the End(s) of Identity and Groups Online

RESEARCHING ANONYMOUS PLAYING WITH “IDENTITY” ANONYMOUS AS CORE MORAL VALUE ANONYMOUS AS CULTURAL CRITIQUE THE END(S) OF IDENTITY NOTES REFERENCES

6. Splitting and Layering at the Interface

INTRODUCTION COMMUNICATIVE SPACES OF DIASPORA TRANSNATIONAL ECONOMIES AND DIASPORAS DIGITALLY MEDIATED SOUTH ASIAN DIGITAL DIASPORAS TO INDIAN DIGITAL DIASPORAS POSTHUMAN ENACTMENT AND RE-PRESENTATION IN ONLINE NETWORKS AVATAR/PROFILE/ICON AS (PERFORMATIVE) TECHNOLOGY NOSTALGIA REPRODUCED: AUTHENTICATING INDIANNESS BOLLYWOODIZATION OF SOUTH ASIAN DIGITAL DIASPORAS DESI YOUTH HANGING OUT IN DIGITAL DIASPORA DESIS ON SECOND LIFE: DEEP HANGING OUT WITH RADHIKA IS SHE “MORE” REAL BECAUSE I “KNOW” HER ON ORKUT? INTERLUDE

Radhika (age 50): Aditi (age 24):

Script 1 Script 2 Script 3 Final Script

CONCLUSION NOTES REFERENCES

7. Avatar

THE INCREASING POPULARITY OF VIRTUAL WORLDS PERSONHOOD AND IDENTITY FORMING AND MAINTAINING RELATIONSHIPS IN VIRTUAL WORLDS OVERCOMING DISABILITY DISCUSSION REFERENCES

8. Technology, Representation, and the “E-thropologist”

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9. The Adventures of Mark and Olly

THE GAZE OF HUMANISM: VISIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGY, VERSIONS OF CULTURAL CRITIQUE FIRST CONTACT AS COLONIAL NARRATIVE COLONIAL HUMANISM: THE FICTIONAL REALITY OF REALITY TV MARKETING THE STONE AGE: REALITY TV AS VISUAL IMPERIALISM THE PLEASURES AND HORRORS OF THE ETHNOGRAPHIC GAZE: A CULTURAL CRITIQUE OF ANTHROPOLOGY NOTES REFERENCES

10. Invisible Caboclos and Vagabond Ethnographers

INTRODUCTION STUDYING CABOCLOS COLLABORATION CABOCLOS AND HIPPIES IN THE SAME FRAME CONCLUSIONS NOTES REFERENCES

11. Marginal Bodies, Altered States, and Subhumans

SÃO PAULO’S CITY CENTER: A BRIEF HISTORY ON THE PRACA URBAN OPERATIONS UNHUMAN SUBJECTS AND DIGITAL SUBJECTIVITIES CONCLUSION NOTES REFERENCES

12. Are We There Yet?

TRADITION, MODERNITY, AND THE COLLAPSE OF CULTURE CULTURE, NATURE, AND THE POSTHUMAN CONCLUSION NOTES REFERENCES

Afterword

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Contributors Index