Umwelt Extended: Toward New Approaches in the Study of the Technologically Modified Body
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jpoststud.4.2.0178" target="_blank" >10.5325/jpoststud.4.2.0178</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Umwelt Extended: Toward New Approaches in the Study of the Technologically Modified Body
Original language description
This study introduces the practice of body hacking, modification, and extension of the body through technological means, and discusses a possible approach to anthropological research on people with technologically extended sensory apparatus. Most DIY modifications promise to extend capacities of the body not just quantitatively by enhancing what already exists, but qualitatively by adding new senses or organs that enable new connections with the outer world. The question is how it is possible to approach in social science research the subjective bodily experience of someone with sensory abilities beyond the human norm. This article proposes to look at this phenomenon from the standpoint of von Uexküll’s concept of Umwelt, which focuses on the study of the subjective experiential world of nonhuman animals and puts emphasis on processes of meaning creation, and not only in a symbolic and discursive way. Following current criticism of representationalism in anthropology, it will be suggested here that the Umwelt concept has a great potential for conceptualization of the technologically modified body in sociocultural anthropology and related disciplines.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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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
Journal of Posthuman Studies-Philosophy Technology Media
ISSN
2472-4513
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Volume of the periodical
2020
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4-2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
178-194
UT code for WoS article
000609035000005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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