Where are you now/ Locational Anxieties

数字技术的快速发展和扩散得益于投资于社交媒体硬件和软件的创业资本主义，国家以智能城市和地区的形式促进高科技治理，以及越来越熟练的“数字公民”能够促进，采用，重新利用和“故障”数字系统，平台和应用程序。数字技术的一个关键组成部分是越来越精确的地理定位功能，允许设计师，生产商和用户“放置”人和物体，并跟踪他们在空间和时间上的移动。智能手机是这种“数字化转向”中最普遍的产品，它允许一套新的过程和实践展开，同时也重申了一种陈腐的想象，即空间是一个可以量化、建模和工具化的领域。“数字公民”的新能力和挑战是什么？这种快速发展的自我定位和他人定位能力会产生什么样的影响？

The rapid development and proliferation of digital technology has been facilitated by an entrepreneurial capitalism invested in social media hard and software, the state facilitation of high tech governance in the form of smart cities and regions, and an increasingly skilled 'digital citizenry' capable of contributing to, adopting, repurposing and 'glitching' digital systems, platforms and applications. A crucial component of digital technologies is an increasingly precise geolocation function that allows designers, producers and users to 'place' people and objects, and to track their mobility through space and time. Smartphones are the most ubiquitous products of this 'digital turn', allowing a new suite of processes and practices to unfold, while also reiterating a well-worn imaginary of space as a field that can be quantified, modelled and instrumentalised as a tool. What are the new capacities, and challenges, of a 'digital citizenry'? And what repercussions emerge from this rapidly developing capacity to locate one's self and others?