Knowing, unknowing and reknowing
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Knowing, unknowing and reknowing. / Hoeyer, Klaus; Winthereik, Brit Ross.
The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology. ed. / Maja Hojer Bruun; Ayo Wahlberg; Rachel Douglas-Jones; Cathrine Hasse; Klaus Hoeyer; Dorthe B Kristensen; Brit Ross Winthereik. 1. ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. p. 217-235.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Knowing, unknowing and reknowing
AU - Hoeyer, Klaus
AU - Winthereik, Brit Ross
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Most technologies are knowledge-intensive, and contemporary knowledge production is often technology-intensive. Hence, knowledge practices are a central theme for a handbook for the anthropology of technology. Knowledge about knowing has mostly been considered a branch of philosophy or alternatively of theology. In this section we argue that the study of knowledge practices is part of both the foundation of the anthropological discipline and its future as we attend to technology-mediated forms of knowing, unknowing, and re-knowing. The section highlights the variations and multiplicities of knowing. It shows that studying knowledge and forms of knowing implies exploring forms of unknowing and ignorance. The seven contributions to this section present research on processes through which knowledge is made, what becomes silenced in the process, and how anthropology often holds a special role in bringing such lost insights or alternative forms of knowing back into the light. Each of the chapters presents a unique take on human engagement with knowledge and technologies of knowing, thereby continuing a long tradition of studying the production of knowledge as socially embedded and materially ingrained.
AB - Most technologies are knowledge-intensive, and contemporary knowledge production is often technology-intensive. Hence, knowledge practices are a central theme for a handbook for the anthropology of technology. Knowledge about knowing has mostly been considered a branch of philosophy or alternatively of theology. In this section we argue that the study of knowledge practices is part of both the foundation of the anthropological discipline and its future as we attend to technology-mediated forms of knowing, unknowing, and re-knowing. The section highlights the variations and multiplicities of knowing. It shows that studying knowledge and forms of knowing implies exploring forms of unknowing and ignorance. The seven contributions to this section present research on processes through which knowledge is made, what becomes silenced in the process, and how anthropology often holds a special role in bringing such lost insights or alternative forms of knowing back into the light. Each of the chapters presents a unique take on human engagement with knowledge and technologies of knowing, thereby continuing a long tradition of studying the production of knowledge as socially embedded and materially ingrained.
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-16-7084-8_11
DO - 10.1007/978-981-16-7084-8_11
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-981-16-7083-1
SP - 217
EP - 235
BT - The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology
A2 - Bruun, Maja Hojer
A2 - Wahlberg, Ayo
A2 - Douglas-Jones, Rachel
A2 - Hasse, Cathrine
A2 - Hoeyer, Klaus
A2 - Kristensen, Dorthe B
A2 - Winthereik, Brit Ross
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -
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