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Chapter 11 in The Atlas of Social Complexity, 2024, pp 132-140 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Technology in general, and the Digital Anthropocene in particular, brings up pertinent questions about the development of our cognition, emotion and consciousness in relation to technological systems. This chapter explores this coevolution. Our guide for this journey is the American literary critic, Katherine Hayles, and her theory of human-technical cognitive assemblages, as outlined in her book, Unthought. To put Hayles’ framing to work, we do two things in this chapter. First, we define what she means by human-technical cognitive assemblages, and second, we rework her definition of machine cognition to better align it with the study of social complexity. This chapter also sets the stage for Chapter 22, in which we spend considerable time exploring our current complex system of digital machines.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy; Teaching Methods; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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