Deze serie duikt in de complexe wisselwerking tussen technologie, wetenschap en cultuur in onze onderling verbonden wereld. Het onderzoekt hoe biotechnologieën en digitale innovaties het menselijk leven vormgeven en nieuwe vormen van gemeenschap en conflict creëren. Door middel van rijke etnografische studies en theoretische inzichten onthullen de bijdragers de ingewikkelde maatschappelijke gevolgen van hedendaagse vooruitgang. Het biedt een boeiende verkenning van de toekomst zoals die actief wordt gevormd.
This pioneering ethnography of psychoanalysis focuses on Chicago, a historically important location in the development and institutionalization of psychoanalysis in the United States, in order to examine the nexus of theory, practice, and institutional form in the original instituting of psychoanalysis, its normalization, and now its crisis.
In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms.
Providing a history of experimental methods and frameworks in anthropology from the 1920s to the present, Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to rebuild theory for the twenty-first century.
Donna J. Haraway refigures our current epoch, moving away from the Anthropocene toward the Chthulucene: an epoch in which we stay with the trouble of living and dying on a damaged earth while living with and understanding the nonhuman in complex ways conducive to building more livable futures.