Digital services, platforms and arrangements are often promoted as smooth and convenient, smart or intelligent. When introduced, devices can appear utterly fascinating or awkward, even disquieting. Eventually, however, they soon disappear in the muddle of everyday life. This is how Mundania takes form.
Based on original research, this book uses the concept of mundania to better understand technological change. Scholar-artist Robert Willim deftly unpacks the interplay between everyday life and the immense complexity of technological infrastructures.
Offering imaginative new insights into our relationship with technology, this book will appeal to readers in a range of fields from science and technology studies and media studies to the arts.
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Emerging technologies eventually disappear into the atmosphere of everyday life – they become ordinary and enmeshed in ignored infrastructures and patterns of behaviour. This is how Mundania takes form.
Based on original research, this book uses the concept of mundania to better understand our relationship with technology.
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1. Arrival
2. Vanishing Points
3. In-between
4. Beyond
5. Beneath
6. Opacity
7. Order
Variability
Openings
“A poetic and speculative imagining of how technologies in everyday life become profoundly ordinary and yet maddeningly out of grasp.” Rachel Plotnick, Indiana University Bloomington
Develops an intriguing concept of mundania to understand our relationship with technology;
Both theoretically sophisticated and organised around variety of real-life examples to support its arguments;
Appeals to a wide, interdisciplinary and international readership.
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ISBN
9781529221442
Publisert
2024-01-24
Utgiver
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Bristol University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, G, 06, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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