04255nam 2200757Ia 450 991095634900332120200520144314.09786613676658978128069967212806996719780226522296022652229610.7208/9780226522296(CKB)2670000000205378(EBL)939563(OCoLC)795128615(SSID)ssj0000695688(PQKBManifestationID)12273218(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000695688(PQKBWorkID)10677500(PQKB)11217749(MiAaPQ)EBC939563(DE-B1597)523432(DE-B1597)9780226522296(Au-PeEL)EBL939563(CaPaEBR)ebr10571181(CaONFJC)MIL367665(Perlego)1852785(EXLCZ)99267000000020537820111215d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHawking incorporated Stephen Hawking and the anthropology of the knowing subject /Helene Mialet1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20121 online resource (278 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780226522265 0226522261 9780226522289 0226522288 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Assistants and the Machines -- II. The Students -- III. The Diagrams -- IV. The Media -- V. The Reading Haw king's Presence. An Interview with a Self-Effacing Man -- VI. At the Beginning of Forever. Archiving Hawking -- VII. The Thinker. Hawking meets Hawking -- Conclusion-A Recurring Question. From Exemplum to Cipher -- Epilog -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexThese days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the person, the human, and the body are-or, alternatively, where they stop. These are the kinds of questions Hélène Mialet explores in this fascinating volume, as she focuses on a man who is permanently attached to assemblages of machines, devices, and collectivities of people: Stephen Hawking. Drawing on an extensive and in-depth series of interviews with Hawking, his assistants and colleagues, physicists, engineers, writers, journalists, archivists, and artists, Mialet reconstructs the human, material, and machine-based networks that enable Hawking to live and work. She reveals how Hawking-who is often portrayed as the most singular, individual, rational, and bodiless of all-is in fact not only incorporated, materialized, and distributed in a complex nexus of machines and human beings like everyone else, but even more so. Each chapter focuses on a description of the functioning and coordination of different elements or media that create his presence, agency, identity, and competencies. Attentive to Hawking's daily activities, including his lecturing and scientific writing, Mialet's ethnographic analysis powerfully reassesses the notion of scientific genius and its associations with human singularity. This book will fascinate anyone interested in Stephen Hawking or an extraordinary life in science. Communication in scienceMind and bodyPeople with disabilities in sciencePhysicistsGreat BritainSelf-help devices for people with disabilitiesCommunication in science.Mind and body.People with disabilities in science.PhysicistsSelf-help devices for people with disabilities.530.092Mialet Helene1811677MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956349003321Hawking incorporated4363688UNINA