{"product_id":"phase-media-9781501353888","title":"Phase Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePhase Media\u003c\/i\u003e, James Ash theorizes how smart objects, understood as Internet-connected and sensor-enabled devices, are altering users' experience of their environment. Rather than networks connected by lines of transmission, smart objects generate phases, understood as space-times that modulate the spatio-temporal intelligibility of both humans and non-humans. Examining a range of objects and services from the Apple Watch to Nest Cam to Uber, Ash suggests that the modulation of spatio-temporal intelligibility is partly shaped by the commercial logics of the industries that design and manufacture smart objects, but can also exceed them.  Drawing upon the work of Martin Heidegger, Gilbert Simondon and Bruno Latour, Ash argues that smart objects have their own phase politics, which offer opportunities for new forms of public to emerge. \u003ci\u003ePhase Media\u003c\/i\u003e develops a conceptual vocabulary to contend that smart objects do more than just enabling a world of increased corporate control\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenges conventional thinking and offers an interesting framework for evaluating the importance of smart objects with a view towards the future. * European Journal of Communication *\u003cbr\u003eJames Ash’s \u003ci\u003ePhase Media\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new way to conceptualize how smart objects are becoming part of and active in our lives, environments and the processes of change that characterize the contemporary world. Providing a welcome alternative to network and new materialist approaches, Ash invites us to consider how smart objects themselves are implicated and active in constituting everyday worlds and change processes. In doing so it provokes new theoretical imaginaries of what smart objects are, how they might impact on our lives, and the implications of this for ethical technological futures. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how smart technologies are emerging as part of our contemporary and near future worlds. * Sarah Pink, Distinguished Professor of Design and Media Ethnography, RMIT University, Australia *\u003cbr\u003eWith Ash’s \u003ci\u003ePhase Media\u003c\/i\u003e, the fallibility of the autonomous system comes sharply into view. A compelling account of the perturbations of apparently ‘smart’ devices. * Louise Amoore, Professor of Political Geography, Durham University, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhase Media\u003c\/i\u003e avoids the common misrecognition of critical academic thinking as an act of judgment or condemnation. It is 'critical' instead in its clarity, patient explanation, examples, helpful signposting and above all, inquisitiveness. * The AAG Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements   \u003cb\u003e1: Phase Media \u003c\/b\u003eNetworks Smart Objects Smart Objects, Space and Time Exploring Phases   \u003cb\u003e2: Objects \u003c\/b\u003eTechnical Objects Smart Objects A Quintuplet model of Smart Objects   \u003cb\u003e3: Spaces \u003c\/b\u003ePhase Space Modulating Phase Spaces Diffusion, Partition, Envelopment The Multiple Logics of Modulation   \u003cb\u003e4: Times \u003c\/b\u003ePhase Time Gradation, Dispersion, Dilation Spatio-Temporal Phases   \u003cb\u003e5: Politics \u003c\/b\u003eSmart Politics Object Politics Endo and Exo Politics Phase Politics   \u003cb\u003e6: Involution \u003c\/b\u003eInvolution Struction and Dis-struction Structive Involution Dis-Structive Involution Phase Activism   \u003cb\u003e7: Ethics \u003c\/b\u003eEthics and Smart Vehicles Phases and Accidents Phase Ethics Practicing Phase Ethics Phase Ethic Futures   \u003cb\u003e8: After Networks \u003c\/b\u003eNetworks and Phases Closing Remarks   Bibliography","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019958255959,"sku":"9781501353888","price":32.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501353888.jpg?v=1750781881","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/phase-media-9781501353888","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}