Published
Jan 24, 2024Page count
164 pagesISBN
978-1529221459Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jan 24, 2024Page count
164 pagesISBN
978-1529221442Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jan 24, 2024Page count
164 pagesISBN
978-1529221466Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jan 24, 2024Page count
164 pagesISBN
978-1529221466Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Mundania
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.
“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
7. Order
Variability
Openings
