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Stefan Helmreich

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Stefan Helmreich's Degrees

PhD Anthropology Stanford University
Masters Anthropology Stanford University
Bachelors Anthropology Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Stefan Helmreich is a professor of cultural anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He graduated from Stanford University in 1995 with a Ph.D. in anthropology. He is also the author of Silicon Second Nature, Alien Ocean, and Sounding the Limits of Life. He specializes in the anthropology of scientists - specifically oceanographers. He won the Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada in 2018. Helmreich was also a Radcliffe Fellow starting in 2018. He is married to Heather Paxson a cultural anthropologist of food and family

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Stefan Helmreich's Published Works

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THE EMERGENCE OF MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY (2010) (1190)
Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas (2009) (389)
An anthropologist underwater: Immersive soundscapes, submarine cyborgs, and transductive ethnography (2007) (205)
Species of Biocapital (2008) (185)
The Anthropology of Potentiality in Biomedicine (2013) (157)
Nature/culture/seawater. (2011) (147)
The perils and promises of microbial abundance: Novel natures and model ecosystems, from artisanal cheese to alien seas (2014) (136)
Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond (2015) (102)
SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE AND INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS FOR PROTECTION OF ACTIVE HYDROTHERMAL VENT ECOSYSTEMS FROM DEEP-SEA MINING (2018) (95)
Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies (2012) (74)
What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies (2011) (73)
Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology (1999) (72)
HOW SCIENTISTS THINK; ABOUT ‘NATIVES’, FOR EXAMPLE. A PROBLEM OF TAXONOMY AMONG BIOLOGISTS OF ALIEN SPECIES IN HAWAII (2005) (71)
Life Forms: A Keyword Entry (2010) (63)
Kinship, Nation, and Paul Gilroy's Concept of Diaspora (2011) (60)
A history of herd immunity (2020) (52)
Kath Weston's Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age (2006) (50)
Trees and seas of information: Alien kinship and the biopolitics of gene transfer in marine biology and biotechnology (2003) (45)
Potential Energy and the Body Electric (2013) (45)
From Spaceship Earth to Google Ocean: Planetary Icons, Indexes, and Infrastructures (2014) (41)
Listening Against Soundscapes (2010) (41)
Flexible Infections: Computer Viruses, Human Bodies, Nation-States, Evolutionary Capitalism (2000) (35)
Ghost Lineages, Ghost Acres, and Darwin’s “Diagram of Divergence of Taxa” in On the Origin of Species (2018) (32)
Blue-green Capital, Biotechnological Circulation and an Oceanic Imaginary: A Critique of Biopolitical Economy (2007) (29)
The left hand of nature and culture (2014) (29)
After Culture: Reflections on the Apparition of Anthropology in Artificial Life, a Science of Simulation (2001) (26)
Waves: An anthropology of scientific things (The 2014 Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture) (2014) (21)
Digitizing ‘Development’ (1999) (21)
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. 331 pp. (2016) (18)
Recombination, Rationality, Reductionism and Romantic Reactions: (1998) (17)
Induction, deduction, abduction, and the logics of race and kinship (2007) (15)
The Genders of Waves (2017) (14)
Tactics of multispecies ethnography (2014) (13)
Silicon Second Nature (1998) (13)
The spiritual in artificial life: Recombining science and religion in a computational culture medium (1997) (12)
The Signature of Life: Designing the Astrobiological Imagination (2006) (12)
Extraterrestrial Relativism (2012) (12)
Underwater Music: Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science (2011) (11)
Hokusai's Great Wave Enters the Anthropocene (2015) (10)
Kinship in Hypertext: Transubstantiating Fatherhood and Information Flow in Artificial Life (2002) (10)
CHAPTER 8. ▽ Nature/Culture/Seawater Theory Machines, Anthropology, Oceanization (2016) (9)
Homo microbis: The Human Microbiome, Figural, Literal, Political (2014) (9)
Spatializing Technoscience: The Anthropology of Science and Technology and the Making of National, Colonial, and Postcolonial Space and Place (2003) (8)
Artificial Life, Inc.: Darwin and Commodity Fetishism from Santa Fe to Silicon Valley (2001) (7)
Potential Energy and the Body Electric: cardiac Waves, Brain Waves, and the Making of Quantities into Qualities (2013) (7)
How Like a Reef: Figuring Coral, 1839-2010 (2016) (6)
Gravity’s Reverb: Listening to Space-Time, or Articulating the Sounds of Gravitational-Wave Detection (2016) (6)
Reading a Wave Buoy (2019) (5)
Anthropology inside and outside the looking-glass worlds of artificial life (1996) (5)
Waves (2014) (5)
Torquing Things Out: Race and Classification in Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star's Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences (2003) (4)
Human Nature at Sea (2010) (4)
Power/Networks (2000) (4)
The word for world is computer: simulating second natures in artificial life (2020) (4)
Life Is a Verb: Inflections of Artificial Life in Cultural Context (2007) (4)
CHAPTER 6. ⃝ Homo microbis Species, Race, Sex, and the Human Microbiome (2016) (3)
BIOSECURITY a response to Collier, Lakoff & Rabinow AT 20[5] (2005) (3)
Species of Biocapital, 2008, and Speciating Biocapital, 2017 (2018) (2)
Science/Art/Culture Through an Oceanic Lens (2018) (2)
Biosecurity: A response to Helmreich, AT 21(2) (2005) (2)
Elasticity Determination of Adhesive Patches With Filler Inclusion (2009) (2)
Seagoing nightmares (2019) (1)
Many Thanks to our Reviewers for 2010 (2011) (1)
Massive movie waves and the anthropic ocean (2018) (1)
Tape, Prince, and the Studio: Interview with Susan Rogers 23 May 2016, Cambridge, MA (2017) (1)
CHAPTER 3. ⃝▽ An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater (2016) (1)
La vida artificial (2000) (1)
Not a metaphor: a comment on Evelyn Fox Keller’s ‘cognitive functions of metaphor in the natural sciences’ (2020) (1)
Introduction: Life at Sea (2009) (1)
Wave Theory ~ Social Theory (2020) (1)
Life, Water, Sound Resounding (2016) (1)
Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy by Sarah Franklin (2008) (1)
The Colors of Saturated Seas (2021) (1)
10. Sex On The Brain: A Natural History Of Rape And The Dubious Doctrines Of Evolutionary Psychology (2019) (1)
CHAPTER 13. ⃞ Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies (2016) (1)
ForewordA Wrinkle in Space (2017) (1)
Book Review (2008) (0)
Reviewer Acknowledgements (2009) (0)
2. Dissolving the Tree of Life:: Alien Kinship at Hydrothermal Vents (2009) (0)
21A.350J / SP.484J / STS.086J / WGS.484J The Anthropology of Computing, Fall 2004 (2004) (0)
Flipping the Ship: Ocean Waves, Media Orientations, and Objectivity at Sea (2021) (0)
In this issue (2011) (0)
STS.330 History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology, Fall 2006 (2006) (0)
Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation (review) (2009) (0)
Music for Cochlear Implants (2018) (0)
Remixing the Voyager Interstellar Record: Or, As Extraterrestrials Might Listen (2014) (0)
21A.355J / STS.060J The Anthropology of Biology, Spring 2009 (2009) (0)
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by CameliaDewan, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 210 pp. (2022) (0)
CHAPTER 12. ▽ ⃞ Seashell Sound (2016) (0)
CHAPTER 11. ▽ ⃞ Underwater Music Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science (2016) (0)
Hydrophonic Fields (2021) (0)
CHAPTER 7. ⃝ The Signature of Life Designing the Astrobiological Imagination (2016) (0)
ELEMENTARY FORMS OF ELEMENTARY FORMS: (2022) (0)
The House of Kuhn, By the Water (2012) (0)
Wave Law (2019) (0)
21A.340J / STS.075J Technology and Culture, Fall 2003 (2003) (0)
Technology and Culture (PDF) (2005) (0)
Elementary Forms of Elementary Forms (2021) (0)
CHAPTER 2. ⃝ Life Forms: A Keyword Entry (2016) (0)
CHAPTER 9. ▽ Time and the Tsunami Indian Ocean, 2004 (2016) (0)
Sounding Life, Water, Sound (2016) (0)
7. Extraterrestrial Seas: Astrobiology and the Nature of Alien Life (2009) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
Many Thanks to Our Reviewers for 2009 (2010) (0)
CHAPTER 4. ⃝▽ Cetology Now Formatting the Twenty-First- Century Whale Formatting the Twenty-First- Century Whale (2016) (0)
STS.330J / 21A.830J History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology, Spring 2009 (2009) (0)
Doing Theory: Life, Ethics, And Force (2021) (0)
Flipping the Field (2022) (0)
CHAPTER 14. ⃞ Chimeric Sensing (2016) (0)
15. An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater (2019) (0)
Xerophonics: Copying Machine Music (Slight Return) (2019) (0)

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