Human No More : Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology.

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 -- Online/Onground Mutuality in Cyborganic -- Cyborganic's Place-Based Legacies: Silicon Valley and Bay Area Countercultures -- Place, Media, and Colocation -- Space Bar: Configurable Sociality from Colocation to Presence Casting -- 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" -- REFERENCES -- 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 -- REFERENCES -- Contributors -- Index.

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