Mundania

Mundania

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Emerging technologies eventually disappear into the atmosphere of everyday life they become ordinary and enmeshed in ignored infrastructures and patterns of behaviour. This is how Mundania takes form. Based on original research, this book uses the concept of mundania to better understand our relationship with technology.

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Mundania by Robert Willim

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.
Robert Willim is an Artist and Associate Professor of Digital Cultures and Ethnology in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University.
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ISBN 13 9781529221459
ISBN 10 1529221455
Title Mundania
Author Robert Willim
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bristol University Press
Year published 2024-01-24
Number of pages 164
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.