Hawking Incorporated
Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject
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Introduction
II. The Students
III. The Diagrams
IV. The Media
V. Reading Hawking’s Presence
An Interview with a Self-Effacing Man
Archiving HAWKING
Hawking Meets HAWKING
Conclusion—A Recurring Question
From Exemplum to Cipher
“Hawking Incorporated provides a social anatomy of how Stephen Hawking—as a physicist, person, and cyborgian collective—lives and breathes in human space-time, even as his theories reach toward a cosmic elsewhere. Hélène Mialet takes the reader on an anthropological odyssey through the worlds of those assistants, machines, students, and TV documentary teams that have helped to conjure Hawking as the singular figure he has become. When Mialet finally meets Hawking in person, the results are riveting and revelatory.”
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Physical Sciences: Physics and Astronomy
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