Welcome to The Mundania Files, ten video essays that reimagine emerging technologies and the everyday. They combine the small and the seemingly trivial with unexpected examples and theoretical meditations to examine how technologies gradually become ordinary. The Mundania Files offer ways to approach larger societal issues related to technologies and possible futures. They build on and extend arguments from the book Mundania – How and Where Technologies are Made Ordinary (open access)
The ten videos probe different aspects of Mundania. The first one is an introduction, while the following ones each revolve around a specific word or concept. The Mundania Files can be used in workshops, in teaching or to meditate on different aspects of technologies. If you use them, feedback is highly appreciated. To engage with the videos, fullscreen mode and headphones or decent speakers are recommended.
The Mundania Files: Intro
The Mundania Files: Depth
The Mundania Files: Amplification
The Mundania Files: Appearance
The Mundania Files: Mess
The Mundania Files: Showcase
The Mundania Files: Brandverse
The Mundania Files: Artifice
The Mundania Files: Finding
The Mundania Files: Abundance