Flashing lights in the quantified self-city-nation

Wilson, Matthew W.

doi:10.1080/21681376.2014.987542

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“…The recent proliferation of work about urban dashboards seems to be almost canonising the field (Ciuccarelli, Lupi and Simeone, 2014;Kitchin, 2014;Batty, 2015;Holden and Moreno Pires, 2015;Kitchin, Lauriault and McArdle, 2015a;2015b;Mattern, 2015;Wilson, 2015). Frequently invoked ancestors include: the automobile dashboard, the airplane cockpit, the space mission control centre, the financial boardroom and state-led industry monitoring.…”

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From real-time city to asynchronicity

Lange¹

2018

Time for Mapping

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In a thought-provoking 'design fiction' exercise, design researchers Bleecker and Nova invert the discourse of instantaneity in urban computing and digital cartography (Bleecker and Nova, 2009). Urban new media tend to promote a speeding up of time: there is here a conspicuous arms race towards more instantaneity, more temporal proximity between events, people and places. Communication is promoted to be 'just-in-time'; feedback to your activities should be in 'real-time' as if you were playing a video-game character. Speed is essential, and this never-ending battle with time-to eliminate it-makes things happen instantaneously. (Bleecker and Nova, 2009: 29) By elevating 'real-time' to a prime design objective, urban new media in fact are geared to dispose of time-in the sense of duration-as a limiting factor altogether. Bleecker and Nova forward the notion of asynchronicity to explore how urban computing technologies might afford more diversified interactions than the efficiency-driven real-time model: there are many geographies, asynchronous because we have individual experiences of the world. Fixed things become flows, and flows become the fixed point of reference … Perhaps we learn from this that computing in an urban setting should first of all not be about data and algorithms, but people and their activities. What happens when time everywhere is not synchronised, when it floats and lags a bit? (Bleecker and Nova, 2009: 19)

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Section: Urban Dashboards As Interfaces To the Smart Citymentioning

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From real-time city to asynchronicity

Lange¹

2018

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“…Data is first produced as a commodity, a site for speculative capital investment, and second as the quantified, spectacularised representation of self, reflected back at individuals from the data they generate. The latter is part of the emerging 'quantified self-city-nation' (Wilson 2015), an 'entangled socio-technical mesh through which individuals both come to know and are made known, sorted, and (in)visible to themselves and society' (Thatcher 2016, 4). Through data, capital colonizes not only everyday life, but the very representations of the self.…”

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“…By rooting the data spectacle in a top down performance by and for engineers and other elites, Gregg's spectacle misses the scalability of the data spectacle and and the fact that it is increasingly situated and embodied (Wilmott 2016, 4). The 'data of everyday life' (Thatcher 2016), when produced in situated practice, collected in bulk, synthesized together, algorithmically analysed, and served back into everyday practice gives rise to the 'quantified self-city-nation' (Wilson 2015). The data spectacle is just as much about the mediation of everyday lived experience as it is any Big Data dashboard or algorithm.…”

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“…Not only does the data economy spring as a site for speculative capitalist investment, a potential 'fix' for systems of overaccumulation (Leszczynski 2014;Wilson 2012;and elsewhere), but also as individuals come to know, are made known, sorted, rendered visible (or not) to both themselves and others (Thatcher 2016). This entangled mesh expands across scales and suffuses quantification and capital imperatives into previously private times and spaces (Wilson 2015). It is the sleek, predictable, inexorably better world promised by this socio-technical milieu (Morozov 2014) that has colonized daily life.…”

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The Spectacle 2.0: Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism

Armano¹,

Briziarelli²

2017

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AcknowledgementsThe spectacle thus unites what is separate, but it unites it only in its separateness (Thesis 29, 1967) Un ringraziamento particolare va a Christian Fuchs per aver discusso in profondità il progetto editoriale e per averlo sostenuto in quanto editore e revisore. Siamo altresì grati a Kylie Jarrett e Eran Fisher per averci incoraggiato nelle fasi iniziali di ideazione.iv The Spectacle 2.0Alla stesura di questo libro hanno anche collaborato, del tutto involontariamente, Romano Alquati, Tom Bunyard and Jonathan Crary. Non sempre è stato possibile esplicitarlo ma la lettura di alcuni dei loro scritti ha sensibilmente influenzato gli autori. Marco Briziarelli and Emiliana Armano Competing interestsThe editor and contributors declare that they have no competing interests in publishing this book The full text of this book has been peer-reviewed to ensure high academic standards. For full review policies, see:

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