Phase media : space, time and the politics of smart objects / James Ash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ash, James, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automatic machinery--Philosophy.

Automatic machinery.

Internet of things--Social aspects.

Internet of things.

Space perception.

Time perception.

Ubiquitous computing--Psychological aspects.

Ubiquitous computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Acknowledgements

1: Phase Media

Networks

Smart Objects

Smart Objects, Space and Time

Exploring Phases

2: Objects

Technical 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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501335631

1501335634

9781501335624

1501335626

OCLC:

1006878784