Simplex Society How to Humanize /

This open access book provides thought-provoking anthropology grounded in comparative ethnography. The theory captures the current historical moment, the long-term trends that led us here, and the prospects for a humane future. The experience of complexity characterizing a globalized information soc...

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Main Author: Stroeken, Koen (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:1st ed. 2024.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Introduction: After Knowledge
  • Part I Simplex Frames
  • Chapter One: Simpl(if)ication
  • Chapter Two: Frameshift
  • Chapter Three: Losing the Feel for the Craft
  • Chapter Four: The Human Experiment
  • Chapter Five: Simplex Communication Society
  • Part II Tensors of the Undertow
  • Chapter Six: Collective Reason
  • Chapter Seven: The Oracle and the Real
  • Chapter Eight: Healer or King
  • Chapter Nine: A Model Leader
  • Chapter Ten: Entropology
  • Chapter Eleven: Soccer as Mirror
  • Chapter Twelve: Street Cred
  • Chapter Thirteen: Godwork
  • Chapter Fourteen: Intuition, Destiny, Love
  • Chapter Fifteen: Phantoms of the Future
  • Epilogue: Or 16.