Human-Machine Reconfigurations

Plans and Situated Actions

By: Lucy A. Suchman, Lucille Alice Suchman

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Hardcover | 4 December 2006 | Edition Number 2

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This book considers how agencies are currently figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Contrary to the apparent enlivening of objects promised by the sciences of the artificial, the author proposes that the rhetorics and practices of those sciences work to obscure the performative nature of both persons and things. The question then shifts from debates over the status of human-like machines, to that of how humans and machines are enacted as similar or different in practice, and with what theoretical, practical and political consequences. Drawing on recent scholarship across the social sciences, humanities and computing, the author argues for research aimed at tracing the differences within specific sociomaterial arrangements without resorting to essentialist divides. This requires expanding our unit of analysis, while recognizing the inevitable cuts or boundaries through which technological systems are constituted.

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'... a wide ranging and ambitious book,and makes an important contribution to studies of technology, action and agency. ... the text remains readable and informative and makes a valuable and important intervention in the field.' British Journal of Sociology

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Readings and responses
Preface to the 1st edition
Introduction to the 1st edition
Interactive artifacts
Plans
Situated actions
Communicative resources
Case and methods
Human-machine communication
Conclusion to the 1st edition
Plans, scripts and other ordering devices
Agencies at the interface
Figuring the human in AI and robotics
Demystifications and re-enchantments of the human-like machine
Reconfigurations
Notes
References
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Human-Machine Reconfigurations

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