Speculating (on the Digital and the Monetary)

IF 1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Analysis Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI:10.3167/sa.2019.630307

Yang Liu, Thomas M. Malaby, D. Miller

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Scholarship has frequently struggled with several pairs of dichotomies as it has sought to understand the digital: real vs. virtual, authentic vs. mediated, openness (freedom) vs. closure (control), and community vs. network. In order to make conceptual headway without falling into these traps, we turn in this article to the concept of indexicality. We urge an account of the digital that sees it as a resource for social action, one with the capacity to reduce and abstract as well as to differentiate and proliferate, recognizing both of these as potential projects that social actors may undertake. We offer the operation of money as an instructive analogy for how we may identify both the abstracting and the specifying dimensions of the digital.

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投机(数字和货币)

在试图理解数字世界的过程中，学术界经常与几对二分法作斗争:真实与虚拟、真实与中介、开放(自由)与封闭(控制)、社区与网络。为了在不落入这些陷阱的情况下取得概念上的进展，我们在本文中转向索引性的概念。我们敦促将数字视为社会行动的一种资源，一种具有减少和抽象以及区分和增殖能力的数字，认识到这两者都是社会行动者可能承担的潜在项目。我们以货币的运作作为一个有启发意义的类比，来说明我们如何识别数字的抽象维度和具体维度。

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来源期刊

Social Analysis ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

7.10%

发文量

审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis. The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes. The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond. Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.