Technologies of the Imagination: An Introduction

2009/03/01 by David Sneath, Martin Holbraad, Morten Axel Pedersen · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · Social Sciences · #Cybernetics and Technology in Society #Embodied and Extended Cognition #Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

paper · doi:10.1080/00141840902751147

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Abstract

What would an anthropology that takes the imagination seriously look like? And how far could an exploration of the processes through which imaginative effects come about serve to distinguish the im...

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