Phase Media

Space, Time and the Politics of Smart Objects

Dr. James Ash (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-3560-0 (ISBN)

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In Phase Media, James Ash theorizes how smart objects, understood as Internet-connected and sensor-enabled devices, are altering users’ experience of their environment. Rather than networks connected by lines of transmission, smart objects generate phases, understood as space-times that modulate the spatio-temporal intelligibility of both humans and non-humans. Examining a range of objects and services from the Apple Watch to Nest Cam to Uber, Ash suggests that the modulation of spatio-temporal intelligibility is partly shaped by the commercial logics of the industries that design and manufacture smart objects, but can also exceed them.

Drawing upon the work of Martin Heidegger, Gilbert Simondon and Bruno Latour, Ash argues that smart objects have their own phase politics, which offer opportunities for new forms of public to emerge. Phase Media develops a conceptual vocabulary to contend that smart objects do more than just enabling a world of increased corporate control and surveillance, as they also provide the tools to expose and re-order the very logics and procedures that created them.

James Ash is a geographer and Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. He works across the disciplines of human geography, cultural studies and media theory. His research focuses on the cultures, economies and politics of digital interfaces and digital technology and how these technologies are transforming everyday life.

Acknowledgements

1: Phase Media
Networks
Smart Objects
Smart Objects, Space and Time
Exploring Phases

2: Objects
Technical Objects
Smart Objects
A Quintuplet model of Smart Objects

3: Spaces
Phase Space
Modulating Phase Spaces
Diffusion, Partition, Envelopment
The Multiple Logics of Modulation

4: Times
Phase Time
Gradation, Dispersion, Dilation
Spatio-Temporal Phases

5: Politics
Smart Politics
Object Politics
Endo and Exo Politics
Phase Politics

6: Involution
Involution
Struction and Dis-struction
Structive Involution
Dis-Structive Involution
Phase Activism

7: Ethics
Ethics and Smart Vehicles
Phases and Accidents
Phase Ethics
Practicing Phase Ethics
Phase Ethic Futures

8: After Networks
Networks and Phases
Closing Remarks

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	472 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-5013-3560-X / 150133560X
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-3560-0 / 9781501335600
Zustand	Neuware