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Unreal Objects: Digital Materialities, Technoscientific Projects and Political Realities: Digital Barricades

Autor Kate O'Riordan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 iul 2017
More than ever before, scientific and technological innovations are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. New products developing today will fundamentally shape the world around us and manipulate our lived experience in the future. In twenty years, we could be zooming on hoverboards to visit real-life Jurassic Parks or navigating with our optic-implanted GPS systems. In this age of blossoming innovation, however, many wonder: how and why are these important projects chosen? And what are the ultimate consequences of this process?
 
In Unreal Objects, Kate O’Riordan unpacks these crucial questions and fills a gap in the theorization of digital materialities. Through her investigation, she discovers that many objects—such as genomic projects, artificial meat, and re-creation of extinct species—cannot be granted scientific legitimacy and developed without extraordinary amounts of media, celebrity endorsements, and private investment. As a result of these filters, only certain projects take center stage when it comes to funding and political attention. O’Riordan calls these unreal objects; scientific projects and technologies whose utopian visions for the future are combined with investment and materialization in the here and now. By separating the media hype from the reality, O’Riordan shows how the huge amount of attention paid to these unreal objects hides more pressing social injustices and inequalities, while at the same time conjuring utopian visions for how life might be lived.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780745336749
ISBN-10: 0745336744
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 176 x 215 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Seria Digital Barricades


Notă biografică

Kate O’Riordan is a reader in digital media at the University of Sussex. She has authored or edited five books including The Genome Incorporated: Constructing Biodigital Identity.
 

Cuprins

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
 
1 Introduction: Problems With Objects
2 The Shadow of Genomics
3 Biosensory Experiences, Data and the Interfaced Self
4 Smart Grids: Energy Futures, Carbon Capture and Geoengineering
5 Real Fantasies: De-extinction and In Vitro Meat
6 Unreal Objects and Political Realities
 
Bibliography
Index
 

Recenzii

"The premise of this book is that objects orient us through our thinking and being in the world and not least through our practices of mediation. The objects in question are the promising but illusory objects of big technoscience, the smart grids, genomes and sensors that make big claims about saving lives, worlds and futures while serving somewhat narrower interests. In Unreal Objects, O’Riordan is not willing to take these objects at face value. She sets out to disorientate us, showing us how the reality of things is contingent and contestable, never losing sight of what is at stake."