The Smartness Mandate Halpern Orit
The Smartness Mandate Halpern Orit Over the last half century, smartness--the drive for ubiquitous computing--has become a mandate: a new mode of managing and governing politics, economics, and the…
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The Smartness Mandate Halpern Orit
Over the last half century, smartness--the drive for ubiquitous computing--has become a mandate: a new mode of managing and governing politics, economics, and the environment.Smart phones. Smart homes. Smart cars.
The imperative to make our world ever smarter in the face of increasingly complex challenges raises several questions: What is this smartness mandate? Smart cities. How has it emerged, and what does it say about our evolving way of understanding--and managing--reality?
How have we come to see the planet and its denizens first and foremost as data-collecting instruments?In The Smartness Mandate, Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell radically suggest that smartness is not primarily a technology, but rather an epistemology. Through this lens, they offer a critical exploration of the practices, technologies, and subjects that such an understanding relies