Space, Agency, Ownership Judy Ehrentraut ENG794 The New Mobile Subject Space, Agency, Ownership Judy Ehrentraut ENG794

Social Space vs. Public Space Mobile Technology Cultural shift in connectivity Communication Practices of embodied space Re-negotiation of the body

Collective Society and the Post-Human Subject 1920s Post-humanism Dissolving boundaries of object/subject Post-human subject/collective subject Hannes Meyer: “People” as the subject of all architecture

The Changing Mobile Subject Henri Lefebvre and social space Changes in self-identification Passive objects in space -> Active agents Humanist vs. Post-humanist body

The Changing Mobile Subject Michel Foucault’s “subjective identity” Dividing practices Scientific classification Subjectification Docile Body Bio-power Architectural enclosures

Cyborgs A "cybernetic hybrid of machine and organism" (Hayles) Donna Haraway: Machines as extensions of the body Empowerment

Integrative Technology Steve Mann: Wearable Computing Google Glass prototype Dourish and Bell: Ubiqutous computing Presence and co-presence

“We Are All Cyborgs Now” Amber Case TED Talk Primary (physical) vs. Secondary (digital) life "It's not that machines are taking us over -- they are helping us be more human" Extension of the mental self Time and space manipulation Cell phones as wormholes

Cellular Phones and Culture Augmenting space and reality Mimi Ito: Cell phones in Japanese life “Keitai” - Something you carry with you

Cell Phone Terminologies UK: “mobile” phones Finland: “kanny” - extension of the body Philippines: “mania” - manic attachment with inanimate personal object

Merging Digital and Urban Life Adrian De Souza e Silva Location as seen through data from mobile networks Connectivity to spaces and places New kind of virtual reality

Mapping and Spatialization Jason Farman Reconfiguring social space Locating pervasive computing culture Embodied space in mobile environments Movement/progress/obsolescence