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Never Switching Off: The Invisible & Emotional Labour of Agency Life

AgencyAnthro February 21, 2019 anthropology / corporate / technologyLeave a comment

Do you like sleep? I really, really do. But sometimes in agency life sleep is a commodity that is in short supply. The workday bleeds into “off hours” and there is little time to “switch off”. In the agency world working on clients in off hours is often normal and …

Questioning Nature and Technology Part 1

AgencyAnthro October 9, 2016 anthropology / culture / nature / technologyLeave a comment

Nature :: Technology Anthropologists pursuing the study of material culture have been perennially interested in the relationship between nature, culture, and what role technology plays in the what it means to be human (c.f. Pfaffenberger 1992).