Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures - Rilegato

Mackenzie, Adrian

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ISBN 10: 0262014645 ISBN 13: 9780262014649

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2010

Riassunto

An account of the sensations associated with being entangled with wireless technologies that draws on the philosophical techniques of William James's radical empiricism.

How has wirelessness—being connected to objects and infrastructures without knowing exactly how or where—become a key form of contemporary experience? Stretching across routers, smart phones, netbooks, cities, towers, Guangzhou workshops, service agreements, toys, and states, wireless technologies have brought with them sensations of change, proximity, movement, and divergence.

In Wirelessness, Adrian Mackenzie draws on philosophical techniques from a century ago to make sense of this most contemporary postnetwork condition. The radical empiricism associated with the pragmatist philosopher William James, Mackenzie argues, offers fresh ways for matching the disordered flow of wireless networks, meshes, patches, and connections with felt sensations. For Mackenzie, entanglements with things, gadgets, infrastructures, and services—tendencies, fleeting nuances, and peripheral shades of often barely registered feeling that cannot be easily codified, symbolized, or quantified—mark the experience of wirelessness, and this links directly to James's expanded conception of experience.

“Wirelessness” designates a tendency to make network connections in different times and places using these devices and services. Equally, it embodies a sensibility attuned to the proliferation of devices and services that carry information through radio signals. Above all, it means heightened awareness of ongoing change and movement associated with networks, infrastructures, location, and information. The experience of wirelessness spans several strands of media-technological change, and Mackenzie moves from wireless cities through signals, devices, networks, maps, and products, to the global belief in the expansion of wireless worlds.

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Adrian Mackenzie is Reader and Codirector at the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster University, U.K.

Adrian Mackenzie is Reader and Codirector at the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster University, U.K.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0262014645
• ISBN 13: 9780262014649
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 255
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile