Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary

by Robert Willim

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529221466
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	01/24/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	164
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

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From the Publisher

“A poetic and speculative imagining of how technologies in everyday life become profoundly ordinary and yet maddeningly out of grasp.” Rachel Plotnick, Indiana UniversityBloomington