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What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design
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“In his 2005 book What things do?, Verbeek expands postphenomenology by asserting that people and technologies co-constitute each other.”
From “Alexa, who am I?”: Voice Assistants and Hermeneutic Lemniscate as the Technologically Mediated Sense-Making (2021) · cites this paper as Verbeek 2005
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“…anthropological interest in the comparative study of materiality, materials and techniques (Ingold 2012, 2013; Knappett 2005; Knappett and Malafouris 2008; Latour 1990, 1992, 1999; Suchman 2006) which it blends with perspectives from postphenomenology (Idhe and Malafouris 2018; Verbeek 2005).”
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“Human-technology relations and postphenomenology (e.g. Ihde, 1990; Rosenberger & Verbeek, 2015; Verbeek, 2005) constitute a field studying the complex and dynamic interplay between humans and technology.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Verbeek, P.-P.
- Corresponding author
- Verbeek, Peter-Paul
- ORCID
- Verbeek, Peter-Paul
- Venue
- Penn State University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Penn State University Press
- Published
- 2005-04-01
- OpenAlex
- W4252272959
- Cited by
- 371
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 52 · 2025: 48 · 2024: 62 · 2023: 51 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 0.63
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Penn State University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Cybernetics and Technology in Society
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Keywords
- things, material culture, materiality, ontology of objects
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