Hawking incorporated : Stephen Hawking and the anthropology of the knowing subject / Helene Mialet.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The assistants and the machines -- The students -- The diagrams -- The media -- Reading Hawking's presence -- An interview with a self-effacing man -- At the beginning of forever -- Archiving Hawking -- The thinker -- Hawking meets Hawking -- Conclusion: a recurring question -- From exemplum to cipher.

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These 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 wi.

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