Simplex Society
This open access book provides thought-provoking anthropology grounded in comparative ethnography. The theory captures the current historical moment, the long-term trends that led us here, and the prospects for a humane future. The experience of complexity characterizing a globalized information soc...
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| Rochtain ar líne: | ONIX_20231113_9783031411151_24 |
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| author | Stroeken, Koen |
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| description | This open access book provides thought-provoking anthropology grounded in comparative ethnography. The theory captures the current historical moment, the long-term trends that led us here, and the prospects for a humane future. The experience of complexity characterizing a globalized information society triggers simplexes. These unidimensional responses instrumental in bringing about a predictable effect are altering our ways of communicating and the technologies we design. In Part I, a ‘speciated’ history, injected with the anthropology of Bateson and Gluckman, describes the semantic and experiential impoverishment of the lifeworld. After going through the affects of distrust (the neolithic lifeway), of futility (industrial lifeway) and disconnection (post-knowledge), the human species today depends for its survival on installing a new lifeway, which manages to wed (eco-social) inclusion to the already difficult first pair of the French Revolution. The species needs to rehumanize. Part II illustrates the remedies currently developed: to reframe, re-sphere and re-source. What do critical street art, international football matches, presidential elections, hip-hop dissing performances, charismatic church services, intuition stimulation, and ‘pre-ceptive’ experiences of consciousness have in common? They are moments of the real. Rooted in ‘life sensing’, they are tensors organizing frameshift. As multiplex measures tackling the simplex, these tensors overcome the cultural relativism of the postmodern matrix. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1218192025-03-20T22:01:32Z Simplex Society Stroeken, Koen Simplex Structuralism Comparative Ethnography Anthropological Theory Theoretical Anthropology Globalization This open access book provides thought-provoking anthropology grounded in comparative ethnography. The theory captures the current historical moment, the long-term trends that led us here, and the prospects for a humane future. The experience of complexity characterizing a globalized information society triggers simplexes. These unidimensional responses instrumental in bringing about a predictable effect are altering our ways of communicating and the technologies we design. In Part I, a ‘speciated’ history, injected with the anthropology of Bateson and Gluckman, describes the semantic and experiential impoverishment of the lifeworld. After going through the affects of distrust (the neolithic lifeway), of futility (industrial lifeway) and disconnection (post-knowledge), the human species today depends for its survival on installing a new lifeway, which manages to wed (eco-social) inclusion to the already difficult first pair of the French Revolution. The species needs to rehumanize. Part II illustrates the remedies currently developed: to reframe, re-sphere and re-source. What do critical street art, international football matches, presidential elections, hip-hop dissing performances, charismatic church services, intuition stimulation, and ‘pre-ceptive’ experiences of consciousness have in common? They are moments of the real. Rooted in ‘life sensing’, they are tensors organizing frameshift. As multiplex measures tackling the simplex, these tensors overcome the cultural relativism of the postmodern matrix. 2023-11-17T08:41:28Z 2023-11-17T08:41:28Z 2023-11-13T16:42:11Z 2024 book ONIX_20231113_9783031411151_24 OCN: 1409055190 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85069 9783031411151 9783031411144 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121819 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85069/1/978-3-031-41115-1.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85069/1/978-3-031-41115-1.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85069/1/978-3-031-41115-1.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-41115-1 10.1007/978-3-031-41115-1 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a a3aa0c8f-eb0f-4827-98fa-5c51a6aacee6 9783031411151 9783031411144 Palgrave Macmillan 320 Cham [...] open access |
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