Shawn Bender
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Shawn Bender
@shawnbender.bsky.social
Anthropologist, Japan and elsewhere | Dickinson College | Researching ag labor & automation | Books: Feeling Machines, Taiko Boom
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Hey, it's a new book! Available everywhere Nov. 24, 2024. www.sup.org/books/anthro...
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Incredibly excited: In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is now out!!! 4 years in the making, co-edited by @joshua-neves.bsky.social and me, this OA volume is full of chapters that will make you rethink the oft-used word. Please read & circulate!

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TOD #54 In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround
Theory on Demand #54In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical SurroundEdited by Joshua Neves and Marc SternbergConvenience is the feeling and aspiration that animates
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November 26, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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In Feeling Machines, @shawnbender.bsky.social looks into the world of Japanese robots engineered for care. Based on fieldwork in Japan, Denmark, & Germany, Bender traces the emergence of care robots in Japan & examines their impact on therapeutic practice around the world
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November 19, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Many thanks to @aasasianstudies.bsky.social for excerpting Feeling Machines on the #AsiaNow blog @stanfordpress.bsky.social
November 12, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Hey, it's a new book! Available everywhere Nov. 24, 2024. www.sup.org/books/anthro...
November 12, 2024 at 8:45 PM