Umwelt Extended: Toward New Approaches in the Study of the Technologically Modified Body

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F20%3A73605571" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/20:73605571 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333185457" target="_blank" >https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333185457</a>

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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Umwelt Extended: Toward New Approaches in the Study of the Technologically Modified Body

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Umwelt Extended: Toward New Approaches in the Study of the Technologically Modified Body

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Projekt

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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

Journal of Posthuman Studies-Philosophy Technology Media

ISSN

2472-4513

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

2020

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

178-194

Kód UT WoS článku

000609035000005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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