Being in a simulacrum: Electronic agency

Agency Uncovered: Archaeological Perspectives on Social Agency, Power, and Being Human

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 191-210

  Lake, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901007626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781843148524     Document Type: Chapter

References (85)

1. Averill, J.R. 1990. A constructivist view of emotion. In R. Plutchik and H. Kellerman (eds.) Emotion: theory, research and experience, Volume1, 305-339. New York: Academic Press.
2. Aylett, R. and Barnes, D. 2000. Connecting reflection and reaction. In K. Dautenhahn (ed.) Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology, 197-223. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
3. Barceló, J.A., Vila, A. and Gibaja, J. 2000. An application of neural networks to use-wear analysis: some preliminary results. In K. Lockyear, T.J.T. Sly and V. Mihailescu-Bîrliba (eds.) CAA96: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, 63-70. Oxford: Archaeopress (BAR International Series 845).
4. Barrett, J.C. 1994. Fragments from Antiquity: an archaeology of social life in Britain, 2900-1200 BC. Oxford: Blackwell.
5. Barrett, J.C. 2001. Agency, the duality of structure and the problem of the archaeological record. In I. Hodder (ed.) Archaeological Theory Today, 141-164. Cambridge: Polity Press.
6. Bond, A.H. and Gasser, L. 1988. An analysis of problems and research in distributed artificial intelligence. In A.H. Bond and L. Gasser (eds.) Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, 3-35. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufman.
7. Boone, J.L. 1992. Competition, conflict, and development of social hierachies. In E.A. Smith and B. Winterhalder (eds.) Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior, 301-337. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
8. Bourdieu, P. 1977. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
9. Cañamero, D. 1997. Modeling motivations and emotions as a basis for intelligent behaviour. In W.L. Johnson (ed.) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 148-155. New York: ACM Press.
10. Cañamero, D. and van de Velde, W. 2000. Emotionally grounded social interaction. In K. Dautenhahn (ed.) Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology, 137-162. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
11. Clark, G.A. 1992. A comment on Mithen’s ecological interpretation of Palaeolithic art. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 58, 107-09.
12. Clark, J.E. 2000. Towards a better explanation of hereditary inequality: a critical assessment of natural and historic human agents. In M.-A. Dobres and J.E. Robb (eds.) Agency in Archaeology, 92-112. London: Routledge.
13. Clark, J.E. and Blake, M. 1994. The power of prestige: competitive generosity and the emergence of rank societies in lowland Mesoamerica. In E.M. Brumfiel and J.W. Fox (eds.) Factional Competition and Political Development in the New Word, 17-30. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
14. Conte, R., Hegselmann, R. and Terna, P. (eds.) 1997. Simulating Social Phenomena. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
15. Cordell, L.S. 1972. Settlement Pattern Changes at Wetherill Mesa, Colorado: a test case for computer simulation in archaeology. PhD thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara.
16. Cowgill, G.E. 2000. ‘Rationality’ and contexts in agency theory. In M.-A. Dobres and J.E. Robb (eds.) Agency in Archaeology, 51-60. London: Routledge.
17. Damasio, A.R. 1995. Descarte’s Error: emotion, reason and the human brain. London: Picador.
18. Dautenhahn, K. (ed.) 2000. Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
19. de Sousa, R. 1987. The Rationality of Emotion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
20. Dean, J.S., Gumerman, G.J., Epstein, J.M., Axtell, R.L., Swedlund, A.C., Parker, M.T. and McCarroll, S. 2000. Understanding Anasazi culture change through agent-based modeling. In T.A. Kohler and G.J. Gumerman (eds.) Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: agent-based modelling of social and spatial processes, 179-205. New York: Oxford University Press (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity).
21. Dobres, M.-A. and Robb, J.E. 2000. Agency in archaeology: paradigm or platitude? In M.-A. Dobres and J.E. Robb (eds.) Agency in Archaeology, 3-17. London: Routledge.
22. Dobres, M.-A. and Robb, J.E. (eds.) 2000. Agency in Archaeology. London: Routledge.
23. Donald, M. 1994. Computation: part of the problem. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 537-538 (Comment on M.A. Boden, Précis of The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms).
24. Doran, J.E. 2000. Trajectories to complexity in artificial societies: Rationality, belief and emotions. In T.A. Kohler and G.J. Gumerman (eds.) Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: agent-based modelling of social and spatial processes, 89-144. New York: Oxford University Press (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity).
25. Doran, J.E. and Hodson, F.R. 1975. Mathematics and Computers in Archaeology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
26. Doran, J.E., Palmer, M., Gilbert, N. and Mellars, P. 1994. The EOS project: modelling Upper Palaeolithic social change. In N. Gilbert and J. Doran (eds.) Simulating Societies, 195-221. London: UCL Press.
27. Dreyfus, H.L. 1972. What Computers Can’t Do: a critique of artificial reason. New York: Harper and Row.
28. Dreyfus, H.L. 1991. Being-in-the-World: a commentary on Heidegger’s ‘Being and Time’, Division 1. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
29. Earle, T.K. and Preucel, R.W. 1987. Processual archaeology and the radical critique. Current Anthropology, 28, 501-538.
30. Ferber, J. 1999. Multi-Agent Systems: an introduction to distributed artificial intelligence. Harlow: Addison-Wesley (English edition).
31. Foucault, M. 1973. The Birth of the Clinic: an archaeology of medical perception. London: Tavistock.
32. Frijda, N.H. 1987. The Emotions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
33. Frijda, N.H. 1995. Emotions in robots. In H.L. Roitblat and J.-A. Meyer (eds.) Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science, 501-516. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
34. Frijda, N.H. and Swagerman, J. 1987. Can computers feel? Theory and design of an emotional system. Cognition and Emotions, 1, 235-257.
35. Gibson, J.J. 1986. The Ecological Approach to Perception. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
36. Giddens, A. 1984. The Constitution of Society: outline of a theory of structuration. Cambridge: Polity Press.
37. Gilbert, N. 1995. Emergence in social simulation. In N. Gilbert and R. Conte (eds.) Artificial Societies: the computer simulation of social life, 144-156. London: UCL Press.
38. Gilbert, N. and Conte, R. (eds.) 1995. Artificial Societies: the computer simulation of social life. London: UCL Press.
39. Gilbert, N. and Doran, J. (eds.) 1994. Simulating Societies: the computer simulation of social phenomena. London: UCL Press.
40. Gilbert, N. and Troitzsch, K.G. 1999. Simulation for the Social Scientist. Buckingham: Open University Press.
41. Goodman, D. and Keene, R. 1997. Man Versus Machine: Kasparov versus Deep Blue. Cambridge, MA: H3 Publications.
42. Hodder, I. 1985. Post-processual archaeology. In M. Schiffer (ed.) Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, 8, 1-25. New York: Academic Press.
43. Hodder, I. 2001. Introduction: a review of contemporary theoretical debates in archaeology. In I. Hodder (ed.) Archaeological Theory Today, 1-13. Cambridge: Polity Press.
44. Kohler, T.A. 2000. Putting social sciences together again: an introduction to the volume. In T.A. Kohler and G.J. Gumerman (eds.) Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: agentbased modelling of social and spatial processes, 1-44. New York: Oxford University Press (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity).
45. Kohler, T.A., Kresl, J., West, C.V., Carr, E. and Wilshusen, R.H. 2000. Be there then: a modeling approach to settlement determinants and spatial efficiency among Late Ancestral Pueblo populations of the Mesa Verde region, US southwest. In T.A. Kohler and G.J. Gumerman (eds.) Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: agent-based modelling of social and spatial processes, 145-178. New York: Oxford University Press (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity).
46. Lake, M.W. 1995. Computer Simulation Modelling of Early Hominid Subsistence Activities. PhD thesis, University of Cambridge.
47. Lake, M.W. 2000. MAGICAL computer simulation of Mesolithic foraging. In T.A. Kohler and G.J. Gumerman (eds.) Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: agent-based modelling of social and spatial processes, 107-143. New York: Oxford University Press (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity).
48. Lake, M.W. 2001a. Numerical modelling in archaeology. In D.R. Brothwell and A.M. Pollard (eds.) Handbook of Archaeological Sciences, 723-732. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
49. Lake, M.W. 2001b. The use of pedestrian modelling in archaeology, with an example from the study of cultural learning. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 28, 385-403.
50. Langton, C.G. 1989. Artificial life. In C.G. Langton (ed.) Artificial Life, 1-47. Redwood City, CA: Addison-Wesley (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, No. 6).
51. Maris, M. and te Boekhorst, I.J.A. 1996. Exploiting physical constraints: heap formation through behavioural error in a group of robots. In Intelligent Robots and Systems, Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS96) Part III, 1655-1661. Osaka.
52. Maturana, H. and Varela, F. 1980. Autopoiesis and Cognition. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
53. McCulloch, W.S. and Pitts, W. 1943. A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, 5, 115-37.
54. McGlade, J. 1997. The limits of social control: Coherence and chaos in a prestige-goods economy. In S.E. van der Leeuw and J. McGlade (eds.) Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology, 298-330. London: Routledge.
55. Merleau-Ponty, M. 1962. Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
56. Mithen, S.J. 1988. Simulation as a methodological tool: inferring hunting goals from faunal assemblages. In C.L.N. Ruggles and S.P.Q. Rahtz (eds.) Computer and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1987, 119-137. Oxford: BAR International Series 393.
57. Mithen, S.J. 1989a. Evolutionary theory and post-processual archaeology. Antiquity, 63, 483-494.
58. Mithen, S.J. 1989b. Modeling hunter-gatherer decision making: complementing optimal foraging theory. Human Ecology, 17, 59-83.
59. Mithen, S.J. 1990. Thoughtful Foragers: a study of prehistoric decision making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
60. Mithen, S.J. 1991. ‘A cybernetic wasteland’? Rationality, emotion and Mesolithic foraging. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 57, 9-14.
61. Mithen, S.J. 1993. Individuals, groups and the Palaeolithic record: a reply to Clark. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 59, 393-398.
62. Murray, T. and Walker, M.J. 1988. Like WHAT? A practical question of analogical inference and archaeological meaningfulness. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 7, 248-287.
63. Newell, A., Shaw, J. and Simon, H. 1957. Empirical explorations of the logic theory machine: a case study in heuristics. In F. Feigenbaum and J. Feldmann (eds.) Computers and Thought, 109-133. New York: McGraw-Hill.
64. Oatley, K. and Johnson-Laird, P. 1987. Towards a cognitive theory of emotions. Cognition and Emotions, 1, 1-29.
65. O’Sullivan, D. and Haklay, M. 2000. Agent-based models and individualism: is the world agent-based? Environment and Planning A, 32, 1409-1425.
66. Reynolds, R.G. 1986. An adaptive computer model for the evolution of plant collecting and early agriculture in the eastern valley of Oaxaca. In K.V. Flannery (ed.) Guila Naquitz: Archaic foraging and early agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico, 439-507. London: Academic Press.
67. Rumelhart, D.E. and Mc Clelland, J.L. (eds.) 1986. Parallel Distributed Processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
68. Russell, S. 1999. Rationality and intelligence. In M. Woolridge and A. Rao (eds.) Foundations of Rational Agency, 11-33. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
69. Russell, S. and Norvig, P. 2003. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education (2nd edition).
70. Searle, J.R. 1992. The Rediscovery of the Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
71. Shanks, M. and Tilley, C. 1987a. Social Theory and Archaeology. Cambridge: Polity Press.
72. Shanks, M. and Tilley, C. 1987b. Re-Constructing Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
73. Shennan, S. 1986. Evolution, adaptation and the study of prehistoric change. In S.E. van der Leeuw and R. Torrence (eds.) What’s New? A closer look at the process of innovation. London: Unwin Hyman.
74. Simon, H.A. 1976. From substantive to procedural rationality. In S.J. Latsis (ed.) Method and Appraisal in Economics, 129-148. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
75. Sloman, A. 1999. What sort of architecture is required for a human-like agent? In M. Woolridge and A. Rao (eds.) Foundations of Rational Agency, 35-52. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
76. Suchman, L.A. 1987. Plans and Situated Actions: the problem of human-machine communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
77. Thomas, J. 1988. Neolithic explanations revisited: the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain and south Scandinavia. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 54, 59-66.
78. Thomas, J. 1991. The hollow men? A reply to Steven Mithen. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 57, 15-20.
79. Thomas, J. 2001. Archaeologies of place and landscape. In I. Hodder (ed.) Archaeological Theory Today, 165-186. Cambridge: Polity Press.
80. Tilley, C. 1994. A Phenomenology of Landscape: paths, places and monuments. Oxford: Berg.
81. van der Leeuw, S.E. and Mc Glade, J. 1997. Structural change and bifurcation in urban evolution: a non-linear dynamical perspective. In S.E. van der Leeuw and J. McGlade (eds.) Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology, 331-372. London: Routledge.
82. Watkins, J.W.N. 1952. Ideal types and historical explanation. British Journal of the Philosophy of Science, 3, 22-43.
83. Winograd, S. and Cowan, J.D. 1963. Reliable Computation in the Presence of Noise. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
84. Winterhalder, B. 1981. Optimal foraging strategies and hunter-gatherer research in anthropology: theory and models. In B. Winterhalder and E.A. Smith (eds.) Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies, 13-35. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
85. Wobst, H.M. 1974. Boundary conditions for Palaeolithic social systems: a simulation approach. American Antiquity, 39, 147-178.