Book: The Machine In Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers Gary Lee Downey investigates the body/machine interface in his remarkable ethnography of computer engineers. Drawing on interviews, observations and personal interaction with engineers, he documents the everyday power of technology's dominant image in our society, a force widely regarded as monolithically progressive.
"The Machine in Me" will lead the reader to understand how deeply connected we are to The Machine and how beneficial it would be for us to really understand ourselves and machines as partially configured of the other--we as part machine, machines as part human. In this way, we can begin to see both the power and limitations of technology.
Details of Book: The Machine In Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers Book: The Machine In Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers
Author: Gary Lee Downey, Lee Downey Gary
ISBN: 0415920213
ISBN-13: 9780415920216
, 978-0415920216
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: Jul 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Number of Pages: 304
Language: English