TY - BOOK ID - 22177945 TI - Human-machine reconfigurations : plans and situated actions PY - 2007 SN - 052167588X 9780521675888 9780521858915 0521858917 9780511808418 1107167175 9786610709762 0511257007 0511257503 0511319657 0511808410 1280709766 0511255926 0511256493 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Ethnophilosophie KW - Human-machine systems. KW - Cognition and culture. KW - Ethnophilosophy. KW - Systèmes homme-machine KW - Cognition et culture KW - Human-machine systems KW - Cognition and culture KW - Health Sciences KW - Psychiatry & Psychology KW - Folk philosophy KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Philosophy, Primitive KW - Primitive philosophy KW - Ethnology KW - Philosophy KW - Culture and cognition KW - Cognition KW - Culture KW - Ethnophilosophy KW - Ethnopsychology KW - Socialization KW - Human operators (Systems engineering) KW - Human subsystems (Systems engineering) KW - Man-machine control systems KW - Man-machine systems KW - Operator-machine systems KW - Engineering systems KW - Human engineering KW - Connaissance et culture KW - Système homme - machine UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22177945 AB - This 2007 book considers how agencies are currently figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Contrary to the apparent enlivening of objects promised by the sciences of the artificial, the author proposes that the rhetorics and practices of those sciences work to obscure the performative nature of both persons and things. The question then shifts from debates over the status of human-like machines, to that of how humans and machines are enacted as similar or different in practice, and with what theoretical, practical and political consequences. Drawing on scholarship across the social sciences, humanities and computing, the author argues for research aimed at tracing the differences within specific sociomaterial arrangements without resorting to essentialist divides. This requires expanding our unit of analysis, while recognizing the inevitable cuts or boundaries through which technological systems are constituted. ER -