NatureCulture is an international open-access journal which explores how ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ are constructed. It seeks out the proper state of the various relations and the emergence of beings that transcend this dichotomy. NatureCulture aims to offer a place where anthropology, STS (Science and Technology Studies), the history of science, philosophy, and the related natural sciences can mingle, with the goal of contributing to the possibility and emergence of a new reality, sometimes through productive mutual criticism, sometimes through stimulating discommunication.
Issue 5
Anthropology and Science Fiction: Experiments in Thinking across Worlds
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Experiments in Thinking across Worlds Casper Bruun Jensen and Asli Kemiksiz PDF | Pages: i–xiii
Articles
The Functions of the Embassy in the World-Making Experiments of China Miéville Steven Brown PDF | Pages: 95–116
Materials of Imagination: On the Limits and the Potentials of the Humanoid Robot Asli Kemiksiz PDF | Pages: 69–94
Revisiting a State of Nature: An Anthropological Encounter with Multispecies Science Fiction Michael Fisch PDF | Pages: 50–68
Ant Network Theory Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay and Geoffrey C. Bowker PDF | Pages: 26–49
Imagining Feminist Futures on the Small Screen: Inclusion and Care in VR Fictions Marisa Brandt and Lisa Messeri PDF | Pages: 1–25
Interviews
Reclaiming Imagination: Speculative SF as an Art of Consequences An interview with Isabelle Stengers Casper Bruun Jensen and Line Marie Thorsen PDF | HTML
Writing Science Fiction Out of Experience: SF, Social Science and Planetary Transformations An interview with Kim Stanley Robinson Aslı Kemiksiz and Casper Bruun Jensen PDF | HTML
Issue 4
Life under Influence
Table of Contents
Introduction Dominique Lestel and Perig Pitrou PDF | Pages: i–ix.
Life as a Making
Perig Pitrou
PDF | Pages: 1–37.
How Machines Force Us to Rethink What it Means to Be Living
Dominique Lestel
PDF | Pages: 38–58.
The Body with Anonymous Organs: Transformation of the Body and the Social in Organ Transplantation
Goro Yamazaki
PDF | Pages: 59–75.
Robots: Technical Individuals and Systems
Paul Dumouchel
PDF | Pages: 76–89.
Viral Life, at Last
Thierry Bardini
PDF | Pages: 90–114.