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Introduction: Where lies the incomputable?
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Introduction: Where lies the incomputable?

Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, Maggie MacLure, David Rousell, Laura Trafí-Prats and Sarah E. Truman
Posthuman Social Science and Computational Culture: Essays on Methodology, Theory and Practice, pp.1-24
Routledge, 1st
2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003538769-1
Appears in  Recent Faculty of Education Publications

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Abstract

This book is a compilation of essays focused on posthuman social science research methodology, theory, and practice. Much of this work was sparked while I was co-director with Maggie Maclure of the Manifold Laboratory for Studies of Learning and Behavior at Manchester Metropolitan University. The lab was created to be a hub for interdisciplinary research across the humanities and social-physical sciences, to think with theory about digital life. The lab was formed at a key historical moment when social science researchers were becoming increasingly aware that computational cultures demanded new kinds of qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry. This coincided with widespread concerns about the climate crisis and the need to re-imagine science-and-society in light of the Anthropocene and Capitalocene (Hird & Yusoff, 2019; Latour, 2017, 2018).

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