“This extraordinarily ambitious and comprehensive volume shows how many things we might have previously considered merely the context for studying technologies are themselves technologies. Through this perspective, we come to learn how technologies facilitate the creation of moral norms, social orders, infrastructures and power. Examples range from datafication and energy to committees, knowledge, gender, authenticity, food and many forms of classification. Such a holistic sensibility is surely apt for the discipline of anthropology, continuing a tradition that recognises that technologies are as much concerned with making people as with making things.” (Daniel Miller, Univesity College London, author of The Global Smartphone)

“Whether you take up this Handbook as an introduction or a review, these writings expand and update our conceptual framework for thinking with anthropology about technology. Technologies, in these writings, are inseparable from the knowledge practices, collectives, controversies and infrastructures that configure them and render their significance. Framed as technological, socio-material relations have been incorporated into histories and political economies specific to colonial and instrumentalist logics of development and progress. Locating technology as one among the many tropes, processes and practices that conjoin matter and meaning, this collection opens lines of analysis able to generate radically different stories.” (Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University, author of Human-Machine Reconfigurations)

“A monument to the unison of hand, book and tool, this ambitious compendium offers resounding proof that the anthropology of technology has come of age. In their sheer richness and diversity, the volume’s many contributions show that researching technology, far from a narrow specialism, seeks nothing less than to place human being and becoming in a world undergoing unprecedented, and potentially cataclysmic transformation. From the climate emergency, through the energy transition and public health, to race and inequality, these studies address some of the most pressing questions of our time. Authoritative, wide-ranging and forward-looking, the Handbook will be an indispensable source for years to come.” (Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, author of Imagining for Real)

“This is a handbook in the best sense of the word, a convincing expansion of anthropological approaches to technical systems to dozens of contemporary hot topics: energy transition, robotics, digital culture, issues of discrimination, welfare austerity, emerging technologies. The articles analyzing the body, gestures, and objects will provide the reader with excellent theoretical and methodological syntheses, and scores of up-to-date references.” (Pierre Lemonnier, The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), author of Mundane Objects)