Devices and the Designs on Us: Of Dust and Gadgets
Devices and the Designs on Us: Of Dust and Gadgets
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我们身上的设备和设计：灰尘和小玩意
DOI：
10.1086/711187
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发表时间：
2020
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Leslie E
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Leslie E
这种灰尘和设备的平行呈现，正如它们在近代历史中出现的那样，试图阐明我们在战争和政治和经济意识形态转变的背景下对智能手机、平板电脑等技术设备的依赖。设备及其软件会老化并需要更新（想想几代 iPhone）。它们最终被扔进垃圾箱。对升级的承诺揭示了当代对历史和历史运动的理解是什么？在设备阴影下以及面对颗粒物级别的环境灾难方面有何进展？这里重要挖掘的地点和时刻包括撒切尔主义和沙漠战争、柏林墙的倒塌、数字成像系统、云和物联网的发明、咖啡店的排列和 24/7 工作以及太空硬件的乌托邦潜力
This parallel presentation of dust and devices, as they have appeared in recent history, attempts to illuminate our reliance on technical devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and the like, in the context of wars and shifts in political and economic ideologies. Devices—and their software—get old and require updating (think of iPhone generations). They are eventually consigned to the dustbin. What does the commitment to upgrading reveal about contemporary understandings of history and historical movement? What is progress in the shadow of the device and in the face of environmental disaster at the particulate level? Sites and moments for critical excavation here include Thatcherism and desert wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall, digital imaging systems, the invention of the Cloud and the Internet of Things, the alignment of coffee shops and 24/7 working, and the utopian potential of space hardware