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In our final chapter, we consider five posthuman or digital confluencies that have come to matter in today’s professional work and learning practices, paying particular attention to the work of researchers: developing a posthumanist ethic; anticipating changes to our thinking, being, and doing; reckoning with the deskilling and upskilling of work practices; dealing with digital data; and questioning digital politics. We suggest that our heuristics can play a key role in addressing some of these new professional responsibilities, some of which may have far-reaching ethical, political, social, and policy implications.
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Adams, C., Thompson, T.L. (2016). Posthuman Confluencies. In: Researching a Posthuman World. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57162-5_5
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