Mundania

How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary

Robert Willim (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

164 Seiten

2024
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-2144-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Robert Willim is an Artist and Associate Professor of Digital Cultures and Ethnology in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University.

1. Arrival
2. Vanishing Points
3. In-between
4. Beyond
5. Beneath
6. Opacity
7. Order
Variability
Openings

Erscheinungsdatum	24.01.2024
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5292-2144-7 / 1529221447
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-2144-2 / 9781529221442
Zustand	Neuware