A5009221881- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Diverse Musicological Studies
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Marine animal studies overview
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Marine and environmental studies
- Travel Writing and Literature
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- History of Science and Medicine
- Language and cultural evolution
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Space exploration and regulation
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
- Music Technology and Sound Studies
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Digital Games and Media
- Philosophy and History of Science
- Science Education and Perceptions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012-2024
New York University Press
2019
Princeton University
2017-2019
Katsushika Medical Center
2016
Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology
2006-2014
IIT@MIT
2005
Draper Laboratory
2001
New York University
2000
Stanford University
1992-1999
Cornell University
1997
Anthropologists have been committed, at least since Franz Boas, to investigating relationships between nature and culture. At the dawn of 21st century, this enduring interest was inflected with some new twists. An emergent cohort "multispecies ethnographers" began place a fresh emphasis on subjectivity agency organisms whose lives are entangled humans. Multispecies ethnography emerged intersection three interdisciplinary strands inquiry: environmental studies, science technology studies...
In this article, I deliver a first‐person anthropological report on dive to the seafloor in Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's three‐person submersible, Alvin. examine multiple meanings of immersion : as descent into liquid, an absorption activity, and all‐encompassing entry anthropologist cultural medium. Tuning rhythms what call “submarine cyborg”—“doing anthropology sound,” advocated by Steven Feld Donald Brenneis (2004)—I show how interior exterior soundscapes create sense immersion,...
From the Publisher: Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes life born from sequences zeroes ones. Artificial Life brainchild scientists who view self-replicating computer programssuch as virusesas new forms life. Anthropologist Stefan Helmreich's look at social simulated worlds Lifeprimarily Santa Fe Institute, a well-known center for studies in sciences complexityintroduces readers to people programs connected with...
Seawater has occupied an ambiguous place in anthropological categories of "nature" and "culture." as nature appears potentiality form uncontainable flux; it moves faster than culture - with frequently figured through land-based metaphors even seeks to channel water's (nature's) flow. manifests a medium pleasure, sustenance, travel, disaster. I argue that, although seawater's qualities early anthropology were portrayed impressionistically, today technical, scientific descriptions prevail. For...
Several scholars in science studies have lately sought to theorize the contemporary join of capitalism and biotechnology. A variety terms been forwarded name how 'life' age genomics, stem cell research, reproductive technology has become enmeshed market dynamics, no term as prominent biocapital. This article offers a classification articulations this concept, arguing that definitions biocapital centre (with varying emphasis) on two transformations: biotic substance economic speculation...
Microbial life has been much in the news. From outbreaks of Escherichia coli to discussions benefits raw and fermented foods recent reports forms capable living extreme environments, modest microbe become a figure for thinking through presents possible futures nature, writ large as well small. Noting that dominant representations microbial have shifted from an idiom peril one promise, we argue microbes--especially when thriving communities--are being upheld model ecosystems prescriptive...
At the beginning of twenty-first century, potentiality serves as a central concept in life sciences and medical practices. This special issue Current Anthropology explores how genes, cells, bodies, populations well technologies, disciplines, research areas become imbued with potential. We suggest that anthropologists biomedicine should work reflexively politics its naming framing. lay out set propositions emphasize moral aspects claims about productivity ambiguity involved when dealing which...
There is increasing interest in mining minerals on the seabed, including seafloor massive sulfide deposits that form at hydrothermal vents. The International Seabed Authority currently drafting a Mining Code, environmental regulations, for polymetallic sulfides and other mineral exploitation seabed area beyond national jurisdictions. This paper summarizes 1) ecological vulnerability of active vent ecosystems aspects this remain subject to conjecture, 2) evidence limited resource opportunity...
ABSTRACTSound studies and Deaf may seem at first impression to operate in worlds apart. We argue this article, however, that similar renderings of hearing, deafness, seeing as ideal types—and often essentialized sensory modes—make it possible read differences between Sound sites articulation. direct attention four zones productive overlap, attending how sound is inferred deaf practice, reimagining the register low-frequency vibration can upend deafhearing dichotomies, "deaf futurists"...
Keywords: commentary, soundscape, anthropology of sound, listening, immersion, transduction
Examining discussions of "lateral gene transfer" in marine biology and biotechnology, I maintain that "natural" bonds between genealogy classification may be dissolving. argue microbial is good to think about with the rise new kinships biopolitics organized less around practices "sex" than politics "transfer." draw on fieldwork among academic industry biologists explore implications rhizomatic, informatic, watery articulations "bare life." [biopolitics, kinship, transfer, anthropology...
We deliver a "keyword" account of the term life form as it has been used in natural philosophy and biology over last two hundred years, beginning with its appearance German Lebensform. argue that has, since earliest enunciations, pointed to space possibility within which might take shape, but way is imagined theorized transformed substantially; originated referring idealized, aesthetic possibilities, then describe biogeographic evolutionary potentialities, today, age synthetic astrobiology,...
This article examines how biologists in Hawaii investigating 'invasive species' classify 'native' and 'alien' organisms, particularly the epistemologically ambiguous zone of archipelagic waters. Framing analysis terms Sahlins-Obeyesekere debate, essay explores how, far from being a straightforward matter biological definition, such classification presents taxing taxonomic political questions, especially Hawaii, where word native resonates with descriptors used by for indigenous people...
What sort of image does the planet Earth possess at opening 21st century? If in 1960s, Whole Earth, as seen from space, became a cold war, proto-environmentalist icon for fragile ocean planet, 2010s, Google globe encountered manipulable virtual object on our computer screens, has become an index multiple and socially various interpretations interventions; its thicket satellite images, text legends, street level photographs can all be tagged, commented upon, modified. In this essay, I examine...
Physics tells us that potential energy is the capacity to do work a body possesses as result of its position in electric, magnetic, or gravitational fields. Thinking “potentiality” an electric idiom and with reference place human biological processes implicate phenomena, such pulses action potentials animate heart brain, can afford novel angles into contemporary biomedical enactments humanness. This paper explores material rhetorical power cardiac neurological medicine, paying attention how...