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Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary [Pehme köide]

(Lund University)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 164 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, 1 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Jan-2024
  • Kirjastus: Bristol University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1529221455
  • ISBN-13: 9781529221459
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 164 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, 1 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Jan-2024
  • Kirjastus: Bristol University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1529221455
  • ISBN-13: 9781529221459
Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.



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.

Arvustused

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

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