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Designing the smart house: posthuman domesticity and conspicuous production
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Abstract This article analyzes recent architectural and product designs for computerized smart homes. The smart home is a sentient space where human subjects and domestic objects speak to one another via intelligent agents and internet connections. This article explores the industrial logic behind this new v... mehr
This article analyzes recent architectural and product designs for computerized smart homes. The smart home is a sentient space where human subjects and domestic objects speak to one another via intelligent agents and internet connections. This article explores the industrial logic behind this new vision of home (i.e. the links between the hi-tech industry and the building/ home appliance industries) and examines the mode of subjectivity the smart home demands. It calls this mode of subjectivity 'posthuman domesticity' (a term to explore the way that everyday human experience is orchestrated by telerobotics and intelligent agents). Analyzing architectural designs, advertisements and magazines, the article focuses on how the smart home industry promotes an ideal of 'conspicuous production' in which the luxury home is no longer just a site of leisure and consumption, but also the ultimate workplace. It argues that smart homes reconfigure but also reinforce gendered patterns of domestic labor and leisure.... weniger
Klassifikation
Technikfolgenabschätzung
Freie Schlagwörter
conspicuous production; conspicuousre production; home office; performative communication; posthuman domesticity; teleworker
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2005
Seitenangabe
S. 403-426
Zeitschriftentitel
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 8 (2005) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549405057826
Status
Postprint; begutachtet
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)