Author: Chris Chesher
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501363611
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Invocational Media critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media. What is an invocation? Ask your voice assistant and it will define it for you. It is a media artefact that responds to many invocations such as seeking the weather forecast, requesting any song you can name, or turning on the lights, almost magically. This contemporary manifestation of the ancient practice of invocation gives an immediate response to your call in a way that Chris Chesher argues is the characteristic power of all computers, which he redefines as invocational media. This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies. Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation. They offer many 'solutions', but only by reducing everything to the same kind of act. They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human. With robotics they invoke material form to act physically and autonomously. People willingly make themselves invocable to surveillance and control by creating their own profiles and marking themselves with biometrics. This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media.
Invocational Media
Author: Chris Chesher
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501363611
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Invocational Media critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media. What is an invocation? Ask your voice assistant and it will define it for you. It is a media artefact that responds to many invocations such as seeking the weather forecast, requesting any song you can name, or turning on the lights, almost magically. This contemporary manifestation of the ancient practice of invocation gives an immediate response to your call in a way that Chris Chesher argues is the characteristic power of all computers, which he redefines as invocational media. This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies. Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation. They offer many 'solutions', but only by reducing everything to the same kind of act. They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human. With robotics they invoke material form to act physically and autonomously. People willingly make themselves invocable to surveillance and control by creating their own profiles and marking themselves with biometrics. This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501363611
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Invocational Media critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media. What is an invocation? Ask your voice assistant and it will define it for you. It is a media artefact that responds to many invocations such as seeking the weather forecast, requesting any song you can name, or turning on the lights, almost magically. This contemporary manifestation of the ancient practice of invocation gives an immediate response to your call in a way that Chris Chesher argues is the characteristic power of all computers, which he redefines as invocational media. This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies. Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation. They offer many 'solutions', but only by reducing everything to the same kind of act. They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human. With robotics they invoke material form to act physically and autonomously. People willingly make themselves invocable to surveillance and control by creating their own profiles and marking themselves with biometrics. This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media.
Invocational Media
Author: Chris Chesher
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501363603
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Invocational Media critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media. What is an invocation? Ask your voice assistant and it will define it for you. It is a media artefact that responds to many invocations such as seeking the weather forecast, requesting any song you can name, or turning on the lights, almost magically. This contemporary manifestation of the ancient practice of invocation gives an immediate response to your call in a way that Chris Chesher argues is the characteristic power of all computers, which he redefines as invocational media. This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies. Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation. They offer many 'solutions', but only by reducing everything to the same kind of act. They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human. With robotics they invoke material form to act physically and autonomously. People willingly make themselves invocable to surveillance and control by creating their own profiles and marking themselves with biometrics. This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501363603
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Invocational Media critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media. What is an invocation? Ask your voice assistant and it will define it for you. It is a media artefact that responds to many invocations such as seeking the weather forecast, requesting any song you can name, or turning on the lights, almost magically. This contemporary manifestation of the ancient practice of invocation gives an immediate response to your call in a way that Chris Chesher argues is the characteristic power of all computers, which he redefines as invocational media. This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies. Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation. They offer many 'solutions', but only by reducing everything to the same kind of act. They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human. With robotics they invoke material form to act physically and autonomously. People willingly make themselves invocable to surveillance and control by creating their own profiles and marking themselves with biometrics. This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media.
Invocational Media
Author: Chris Chesher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computer programming
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media"--
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computer programming
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media"--
Shaping Technologies
Author:
Publisher: Autonomedia
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
It Undertakes Re-Readings Of The Past Debates, And Anticipations Of The Future Ones, To Arrive At Assessments That Suggest Soberiety And A Cool Consideration Of The Cold Touch Of The Machine, As Well As The Heat Of The Fuel That Animates It. It Examines Blueprints And Reads The Road Maps To The Future That Lie Before Us.
Publisher: Autonomedia
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
It Undertakes Re-Readings Of The Past Debates, And Anticipations Of The Future Ones, To Arrive At Assessments That Suggest Soberiety And A Cool Consideration Of The Cold Touch Of The Machine, As Well As The Heat Of The Fuel That Animates It. It Examines Blueprints And Reads The Road Maps To The Future That Lie Before Us.
Media International Australia
Abstracts of Research and Related Materials in Vocational and Technical Education
Practice in Vocational Guidance
Author: Frederick James Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Profession, Choice of
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Profession, Choice of
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Course of Study in Vocational Subjects
Author: Detroit Public Schools. Department of Instruction, Teacher Training, and Research
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A Comparison of the Intelligence Quotients of High School Pupils in Vocational and Non-vocational Courses
Studies in Vocational Education
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vocational education
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vocational education
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description