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

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

3. 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

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

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

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

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

8. “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

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

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

11. 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

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