Mundania, livre ebook

Develops an intriguing concept of mundania to understand our relationship with technology;

Both theoretically sophisticated and organised around variety of real-life examples to support its arguments;

Appeals to a wide, interdisciplinary and international readership.

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.

1. Arrival

2. Vanishing Points

3. In-between

4. Beyond

5. Beneath

6. Opacity

7. Order

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