the book

January 24, 2024 Bristol University Press will publish the book Mundania – How and Where Technologies are Made Ordinary. This is how it is described:

Digital services, platforms and arrangements are often promoted as smooth and convenient, smart or intelligent. When introduced, devices can appear utterly fascinating or awkward, even disquieting. Eventually, however, they soon disappear in the muddle of everyday life. This is how Mundania takes form.

Based on original research, this book uses the concept of Mundania to better understand technological change. Scholar-artist Robert Willim deftly unpacks the interplay between everyday life and the immense complexity of technological infrastructures.

Offering imaginative new insights into our relationship with technology, this book will appeal to readers in a range of fields from science and technology and media studies to the arts.

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/mundania

The chapters in the book are:

Arrival
Vanishing Points
In-Between
Beyond
Beneath
Opacity
Order
Variability
Openings