Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

A Home with a Future. Digital Domesticity and the Vague Fictions of Silicon Valley

A Home with a Future. Digital Domesticity and the Vague Fictions of Silicon Valley Abstract The last two decades have seen an explosion in the numbers of digital devices that “weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life.” Here we bring to critical attention the material, ethical and spatial consequences of integrating digital devices in physical spaces. We concentrate on the way Silicon Valley constructs a narrative of digital domesticity. Harriet Riches uses the term to describe online magazines that seek to revive hand-made crafts, domestic life, and a yearning for the slower pace of a, ironically, pre-digital life. We reflect on the way that Silicon Valley makes use of vague fictions—narratives that blur the divide between present and future—as a way of presenting us with a vision of domestic life that is at once nostalgic of social forms and accommodating of new technologies. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Architecture and Culture Taylor & Francis

A Home with a Future. Digital Domesticity and the Vague Fictions of Silicon Valley

Hernan, Luis; Ramirez-Figueroa, Carolina
Architecture and Culture , Volume OnlineFirst: 21 – May 10, 2023
Download PDF
21 pages

A Home with a Future. Digital Domesticity and the Vague Fictions of Silicon Valley

Abstract

Abstract The last two decades have seen an explosion in the numbers of digital devices that “weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life.” Here we bring to critical attention the material, ethical and spatial consequences of integrating digital devices in physical spaces. We concentrate on the way Silicon Valley constructs a narrative of digital domesticity. Harriet Riches uses the term to describe online magazines that seek to revive hand-made crafts, domestic life, and a...
Loading next page...
 
/lp/taylor-francis/a-home-with-a-future-digital-domesticity-and-the-vague-fictions-of-bfXWNAHn6d
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
ISSN
2050-7836
eISSN
2050-7828
DOI
10.1080/20507828.2023.2170118
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Abstract The last two decades have seen an explosion in the numbers of digital devices that “weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life.” Here we bring to critical attention the material, ethical and spatial consequences of integrating digital devices in physical spaces. We concentrate on the way Silicon Valley constructs a narrative of digital domesticity. Harriet Riches uses the term to describe online magazines that seek to revive hand-made crafts, domestic life, and a yearning for the slower pace of a, ironically, pre-digital life. We reflect on the way that Silicon Valley makes use of vague fictions—narratives that blur the divide between present and future—as a way of presenting us with a vision of domestic life that is at once nostalgic of social forms and accommodating of new technologies.

Journal

Architecture and Culture – Taylor & Francis

Published: May 10, 2023

Keywords: digital cultures; internet of things; technology; futures; speculative design; fiction; Silicon Valley; ubiquity; critical computation; critical data studies

References

  • The Unbearable Being of Lightness
  • The Idea of a Home: A Kind of Space
  • You Might Find Your next Home on Amazon
  • Visualizing the Vague: Invisible Computers in Contemporary Design
  • Live Better Electrically: The Gold Medallion Electric Home Campaign
  • Of Mud, Media, and the Metropolis: Aggregating Histories of Writing and Urbanization
  • Post-It Note City
  • Amazon House in a Box, Our Interview with Studio AMA Albera Monti Architetti’s Founders
  • Amazon Echo and the Aesthetics of Whiteness
  • Pix and Clicks: Photography and the New “Digital” Domesticity
  • ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
  • Designing the Smart House: Posthuman Domesticity and Conspicuous Production
  • Aesthetic Pleasures and Gendered Tech-Work in the 21st-Century Smart Home
  • The Science Fiction of Technoscience: The Politics of Simulation and a Challenge for New Media Art
  • Amazon Echo Owners Are Finding Unexpected Items like “Big Fart” on Their Shopping Lists
  • The Computer for the 21st entury