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Mundania

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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...
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  • 20 February 2024
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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.

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Price: $38.95
Pages: 164
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publication Date: 20 February 2024
ISBN: 9781529221459
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Communication studies, History of engineering and technology, Material culture, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developments
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“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
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

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