cyborg anthropology

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is a critique of anthropos' human-centered presuppositions.

. . . a broad critique of the adequacy of 'anthropos' as the subject and object of anthropology. In this respect, cyborg anthropology poses a serious challenge to the human-centered foundations of anthropological discourse. The term 'cyborg anthropology' is an oxymoron that draws attention to the human-centered presuppositions of anthropological discourse by posing the challenge of alterative formulations' (Downey 1995:266)

is concerned with how machines have agency which maintain their own kind of desires, rationalities, nationalisms, militarisms, races, genders, sexualities, and so on.

viewing both humans and objects as actants... refiguring the objective world of fact in various ways by deconstructing the neutral observer' (Downey 266).'cyborg anthropology holds that machines and other technologies are attributed agency in the construction of subjectivities and bunded realms of knowledge. How does machine agency serve to contast and maintain desires, rationalities, nationalisms, militarisms, races, genders, sexualities, and so on'' (downey 266)

is concerned with how people construct discourse about science and technology in order to make these meaningful in their lives.

concerned with how people construct discourse about science and technology in order to make these meaningful in their lives' (downey 1995:266)

is concerned with the production of humanness through machines.

Demonstrating that academic activities that seek to articulate more explicitly their knowledge and political contents. Cyborg anthropology takes up this challenge by exploring the production of humanness through machines. It looks for ways to critique, resist, and participate within structures of knowledge and power' (Downey 1995:265)

is coproduction of human and machine such that it begs the question of who the 'we' is that writes.

if writing is a coproduction of human and machine, then who is the 'we' that writes'' (Downey 266)

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