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Shawn Bender

@shawnbender.bsky.social

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Anthropologist, Japan and elsewhere | Dickinson College | Researching ag labor & automation | Books: Feeling Machines, Taiko Boom

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Shawn Bender @shawnbender.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Many thanks to @otsuki3c.bsky.social for this insightful review of my book

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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! networkcultures.org/blog/publica...

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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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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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 www.sup.org/books/anthro...

Lavender square featuring the book cover for Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care by Shawn Bender

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Shawn Bender @shawnbender.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Many thanks to @aasasianstudies.bsky.social for excerpting Feeling Machines on the #AsiaNow blog @stanfordpress.bsky.social

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Shawn Bender @shawnbender.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Hey, it's a new book! Available everywhere Nov. 24, 2024. www.sup.org/books/anthro...

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