O ljudsko-tehnološkim odnosima iz antropološke perspektive – promišljanja na preseku prošlosti i budućnosti
On Human-Technological Relations from an Anthropological Perspective – Reflections at the Intersection of the Past and the Future

Author(s): Sonja Radivojević
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: аnthropology of technology; digital; humanity; materiality; future
Summary/Abstract: Whether we like it or not, visible and invisible, digital technologies today are no longer isolated categories, but an essential part of most contemporary human activities, practices, and experiences, which is why we are increasingly directed to coexist with them. Although today the corpus of literature on our digital everyday life and its various aspects, the main factor of which is technology, is growing, in the theoretical and methodological, as well as in the subject matter, technology was rarely directly discussed from an anthropological perspective, until the emergence of interest in the study of digital technologies at the end of the 20th century. Basing the work on the postulates of anthropology of contemporary, which in the vision of Rabinow and Marcus is conceived as the establishment of bridges between the past and the present, by illuminating the lost period of the study of technology from an anthropological perspective as heritage, on the one hand, and combining contemporary theoretical approaches, on the other hand, in this paper, I will try to present the previous observations about the reflection of human- technological relations in anthropology, as well as the need to establish a more balanced and inclusive platform necessary for the study of human-technological relations in the contemporary world and in the future.

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