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Unreal Objects

Digital Materialities, Technoscientific Projects and Political Realities. Digital Barricades

By (author) Kate O'Riordan
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Pluto Press, London, United Kingdom
Published: 20th Jul 2017
Dimensions: w 131mm h 229mm d 15mm
Weight: 245g
ISBN-10: 0745336744
ISBN-13: 9780745336749
Barcode No: 9780745336749
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Science and technology are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. New projects in development today will fundamentally shape the world around us, and manipulate our lived experience. But how and why are such important scientific and technological projects chosen, and what are the consequences of this process? In this book, Kate O'Riordan answers these crucial question. She discovers that many objects, such as genomes and genomic projects, smart grids, de-extinction projects and biosensors cannot be granted scientific legitimacy and developed without extraordinary amounts of media, public relations, celebrity endorsements and private investment. As a result of these filters, only certain projects take centre stage when it comes to funding and political attention. O'Riordan calls these 'unreal objects' - scientific projects and technologies where utopian visions for the future are combined with investment and materialisation in the here and now. This attention to these unreal objects hides many current social issues, especially injustices and inequalities. At the same time they conjure utopian visions for how life might be improved.

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'Disorientates us, showing us how the reality of things is contingent and contestable, never losing sight of what is at stake' -- Sarah Kember, Professor of New Technologies of Communication, Goldsmiths University, Director of Goldsmiths Press