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In a final post about the ESF sponsored conference, Paying Attention, held by DCRC in September, I have recently written about the concept of technicity in relation to the capacity for attention. What follows is the text from that post, I hope it is of vague interest…
Towards the end of a recent meeting with my supervisors I was asked a question that went something along the lines of: “do you buy the argument that if something is computational, that it is then necessarily reductive?” An excellent question I think. I suggested at the time, and still believe, there [...]
I am in the process of revising a paper that is in the process of review for publication entitled Embracing entanglements: Problematising the cosmopolitics of mobile communications technologies. I include below the abstract. If you are interested in this research feel free to contact me to discuss it [...]
Ubiquitous computing is an interesting yet peculiar (empirical) focus for study by virtue of there being no devices or systems widely available commercially or publicly. This is at the heart of my research interest, the point of friction I feel compelled to address: ubiquitous computing largely exists as [...]
When writing as a scholar one is always utilising theory. What is more, the collections and interrelations of ideas mobilised in the process is not a static or staid process – it is dynamic, not in a clichéd way but as a changeable movement of concepts at different speeds and across different durations, in short [...]
I have recently had to present the main themes of my project at a post-graduate conference. I have thus formed some notes towards defining my project, what follows is the abstract to my presentations, which I gave under the title: Mobilising the Socio-technical: The cultural politics of mobile communications technologies.
What follows is the Abstract to my Masters degree dissertation.
An End to Cyberspace? Metaphor, Affect and Socio-Technical Relations
Despite twenty-five years of the personal computer and a wealth of literature on all things ‘cyber-’ the discussion of computer-mediated communication largely remains pre-figured by (misguided) binaries, such as ‘material’-’electronic’ and ‘real’-’virtual’. This dissertation (re)examines the [...]
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