Overview notes
INVISIBLE INFRASTRUCTURE/WIFI
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structures of control
computer protocols
regulation of attention
the stimulation of desire
the stimulation of consumption
all senses
temperature/speed/florescence
associations with the senses
modernity
mutable
progressive
language to be learned
level of surface
skin/nose/eye/ear - surfaces
taken for granted
only become visible when on breakdown
visibility is necessary to continually renew its political effect
All visibility is situated
Form is loosened from technical function
Mediating exchange over distance
Binding people and things into complex heterogeneous systems
little relation to reality
Excessive fantastic object that generates desire and awe
Encode the dreams of individuals and societies
Vehicles whereby fantasies are transmitted and made emotionally real
Fantasies that stand as filters through which the object is seen
shaping modern society and realizing the future
Mechanisms to control time
Instigating waves of societal progress
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic god
promoting circulation
bring about change
enact progress
gain freedom
one technological system comes to dominate over others
when independent systems converge into a network
a technical system originates in one place
move to other places with differing conditions, technological standards, and legal regulations
elaborating techniques of adaption and translation
Practices of routinazation and extension
Requiring an Account of translation (which can be technical, managerial and financial)
matter that enable the movement of other matter
They are things and also the relation between things
Present to the senses
Displaced in the focus of the matter
System of substrates
Clear, linear relationship between underlying system and the phenomenal world to which it gives rise
division or contrast between Mind-body
The educational and cultural competence needed to understand its functioning and to operate it
Contort/deform
early technical choices get reinforced as subsequent system elements are built around or on top of them
A wide variety of actors were in a constant tug-of-war or negotiation for the future of the system
Modular
Gradual
Maintenance
dependence on human practices
standardization
(growth in) momentum
(growth in) Interia/trajectory
Leaderless
decentralized
seamless interconnection
translation from one system (or network) to another
Digital natives
Intuitive
user friendly
relative
context specific
historically-informed
Dynamics
Tensions
primitive or template for its template for its parents
social choices
transfer across space
transfer across context
growth in scale
Invention
It’s infrastructures all the way down
beyond the control of mere human programmers and analysts
computing werewolves
relation
the subordinate parts (of an undertaking/foundation)
service regarded as essential
system without which contemporary societies cannot function
participate in a common visual and conceptual paradigm of what it means to be modern
elements internal to the object itself, formed as part of a system
originating from outside
obtain from a source externally
intractability
circulation
different networks
inceptive
serving to indicate or point out