Body-hacking: On the Relationship between People and Material Entities in the Practice of Technological Body Modifications

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Body-hacking: On the Relationship between People and Material Entities in the Practice of Technological Body Modifications

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Body-hacking: On the Relationship between People and Material Entities in the Practice of Technological Body Modifications

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Historicka Sociologie

ISSN

1804-0616

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

2020

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

49-63

Kód UT WoS článku

000534492900004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85086454741