Body-hacking: On the Relationship between People and Material Entities in the Practice of Technological Body Modifications
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F20%3A73601344" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/20:73601344 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://historicalsociology.cuni.cz/HS-44-version1-hs_1_2020_final049_063.pdf" target="_blank" >https://historicalsociology.cuni.cz/HS-44-version1-hs_1_2020_final049_063.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363525.2020.4" target="_blank" >10.14712/23363525.2020.4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Body-hacking: On the Relationship between People and Material Entities in the Practice of Technological Body Modifications
Original language description
The text focuses on a critical reflection on research conducted among Czech bodyhackers and, in general, on the possibilities and limitations of the conceptualization of the body, which is a product of technohuman interconnections, in socialscientific research. This issue logically directs me towards theoretical and conceptual foundations of symmetrical anthropology taking into account the role of nonhuman actors and the materiality of the world (based on the works of Bruno Latour, John Law, etc.) which constitute the core of the text. This study critically reflects upon the traditional foundations of social sciences that deal with an individual’s subjective perspective when studying corporeality. This leads to a reproduction of the dichotomy of subject/ object and body/mind which are revealed as restrictive in the research of technological modifications and cybercorporeality in general and require a clear definition of the concepts of the “body” and “technologies” that are, however, limiting from the point of view of the lived experience of their users. The question arises of where the human body ends and technologies begin, whether the human body in its “natural” state has a certain integrity. This approach is demonstrated in the text on the case of Czech body-hackers, the NFC chip users.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Historicka Sociologie
ISSN
1804-0616
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2020
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
49-63
UT code for WoS article
000534492900004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85086454741