Folding and Friction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Goulden
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Material Interface ◽  
The Social ◽  
Networked Computing ◽  
Social Domains

The internet of things (IoT)—the embedding of networked computing into the material world around us—seeks to reshape our everyday lives. To address the IoT is to address the material interface between the global digital networks of the twenty-first-century economy and the mundane doings, affects, and experiences which occupy the great majority of our existence. Taking domestic IoT, the so-called smart home, as a focus, the author argues that the IoT is more than simply an intensification of existing trends, the ongoing extension of computing connectivity which has already jumped from desktop to laptop to smartphone. In breaking out of the constraints of any single personal device, no matter how mobile, the IoT not only further dissolves the spatial and temporal distance between different social domains but also profoundly implicates social life within those domains, between the members of the setting. The IoT is constitutionally social in a way in which no type of social media is. The chapter provides a consideration of the political economy at play in the smart home, before addressing everyday life and the IoT in terms of information management, control, domestic labor, and resistance. In concluding, two key features of the IoT are highlighted: world folding, whereby incommensurate social domains are layered through one another with often problematic—even absurd—results and its misconceived efforts to erase the social frictions of everyday life, which fails to recognize that it is in these frictions that so much of what is socially valuable resides.

scholarly journals Codzienność w kryzysie

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Łukasz Rogowski ◽  
Radosław Skrobacki ◽  
Dorota Mroczkowska
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this article is to demonstrate the relationship between everyday life and special conditions seen in the context of the concept of crisis. The authors define everyday life and special conditions as two opposing ways of experiencing social life, but their differentiation does not depend on their content but rather on form and manner of their perception/realisation in everyday life. This differentiation is described on the basis of the example of the concept of crisis, understood as the breakdown of everyday life and the consequent creation of special conditions. Based on contemporary examples, concerning to a large degree the social consequences of the breakdown of the economy, the authors represent crisis as a moment of renegotiating the principles of social life, the disruption of the routines and habits of everyday life and the transition into the unpredictability and reflexivity of social practices which characterize such special conditions. Attention is paid in particular to the concept of power, which takes on new meanings in the sociology of everyday life, differing from its institutional meaning, closer rather to “everyday power” which is realised in the framework of direct interactions in daily life.

Folk Psychology and the Biological Basis of Intersubjectivity

2005 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 18-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Ratcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Folk Psychology ◽  
Social World ◽  
Biological Basis ◽  
Intentional States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interpersonal Understanding

Recent philosophical discussions of intersubjectivity generally start by stating or assuming that our ability to understand and interact with others is enabled by a ‘folk psychology’ or ‘theory of mind’. Folk psychology is characterized as the ability to attribute intentional states, such as beliefs and desires, to others, in order to predict and explain their behaviour. Many authors claim that this ability is not merely one amongst many constituents of interpersonal understanding but an underlying core that enables social life. For example, Churchland states that folk psychology ‘embodies our baseline understanding’ of others (1996, p. 3). Currie and Sterelny similarly assert that ‘our basic grip on the social world depends on our being able to see our fellows as motivated by beliefs and desires we sometimes share and sometimes do not’ (2000, p. 143). And, as Frith and Happé put it, ‘this ability appears to be a prerequisite for normal social interaction: in everyday life we make sense of each other’s behaviour by appeal to a belief-desire psychology’ (1999, p. 2).

Attivitŕ di tempo libero

IKON ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 109-147
Author(s):  
Carlo Cristini ◽  
Giovanni Cesa-Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

- This article is aimed to analyse immigrants' sociability and the social dimension of their cultural consumption, assuming that consumption itself is a social action embedded in subject's social and cultural sphere and that cultural object, at their time, are a fundamental resource for social and everyday life. The attention will be focused, in particular, on subject's "significant others" and their role in shaping and mediating subject's consumption and social life. Then the article will deepen the relationship between consumption and subject's cultural capital.

scholarly journals Learning Systems versus Future Everyday Domestic Life: A Designer’s Interpretation of Social Practice Imaginaries

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Viaene ◽  
Lenneke Kuijer ◽  
Mathias Funk
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Waking Up ◽  
Over Time

Smart home technologies with the ability to learn over time promise to adjust their actions to inhabitants’ unique preferences and circumstances. For example, by learning to anticipate their routines. However, these promises show frictions with the reality of everyday life, which is characterized by its complexity and unpredictability. These systems and their design can thus benefit from meaningful ways of eliciting reflections on potential challenges for integrating learning systems into everyday domestic contexts, both for the inhabitants of the home as for the technologies and their designers. For example, is there a risk that inhabitants’ everyday lives will reshape to accommodate the learning system’s preference for predictability and measurability? To this end, in this paper we build a designer’s interpretation on the Social Practice Imaginaries method as developed by Strengers et al. to create a set of diverse, plausible imaginaries for the year 2030. As a basis for these imaginaries, we have selected three social practices in a domestic context: waking up, doing groceries, and heating/cooling the home. For each practice, we create one imaginary in which the inhabitants’ routine is flawlessly supported by the learning system and one that features everyday crises of that routine. The resulting social practice imaginaries are then viewed through the perspective of the inhabitant, the learning system, and the designer. In doing so, we aim to enable designers and design researchers to uncover a diverse and dynamic set of implications the integration of these systems in everyday life pose.

Folk Psychology and the Biological Basis of Intersubjectivity

2005 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 211-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Ratcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Folk Psychology ◽  
Social World ◽  
Biological Basis ◽  
Intentional States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interpersonal Understanding

Recent philosophical discussions of intersubjectivity generally start by stating or assuming that our ability to understand and interact with others is enabled by a ‘folk psychology’ or ‘theory of mind’. Folk psychology is characterized as the ability to attribute intentional states, such as beliefs and desires, to others, in order to predict and explain their behaviour. Many authors claim that this ability is not merely one amongst many constituents of interpersonal understanding but an underlying core that enables social life. For example, Churchland states that folk psychology ‘embodies our baseline understanding’ of others (1996, p. 3). Currie and Sterelny similarly assert that ‘our basic grip on the social world depends on our being able to see our fellows as motivated by beliefs and desires we sometimes share and sometimes do not’ (2000, p. 143). And, as Frith and Happe put it, ‘this ability appears to be a prerequisite for normal social interaction: in everyday life we make sense of each other's behaviour by appeal to a belief-desire psychology’ (1999, p. 2).

Those obscure objects of desire

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-176
Author(s):  
Adam T. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Material Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emotion And Affect

‘Everyday life is a life lived on the level of surging affects’, posits Kathleen Stewart in her challenging experimental ethnography Ordinary affects (2007). Affects – public feelings that put intimate sentiments in broad circulation – are, for Stewart, the sinews of social life, an opaque circuit that simultaneously grounds experience in places and things and publicizes the personal. As such, affects are quintessentially archaeological in that they are both artefactual, embedded in what Bill Brown (2003) calls the ‘object matter’ of human relationships, and rooted in deep histories of material production and transformation. It is not surprising, then, that the intertwined problems of emotion and affect have re-emerged as potentially productive loci of research within archaeology itself. Indeed, as the discipline continues to extend its understanding of the social instrumentality of objects, landscapes and representations, it must, of necessity, come to terms with the affective efficacy of things, with the causes and consequences of our captivation.

scholarly journals The prevalence of dyads in social life

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0244188
Author(s):  
Leonard S. Peperkoorn ◽  
D. Vaughn Becker ◽  
Daniel Balliet ◽  
Simon Columbus ◽  
Catherine Molho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Group Size ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Retrospective Reports ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Methodological Approaches

A salient objective feature of the social environment in which people find themselves is group size. Knowledge of group size is highly relevant to behavioural scientists given that humans spend considerable time in social settings and the number of others influences much of human behaviour. What size of group do people actually look for and encounter in everyday life? Here we report four survey studies and one experience-sampling study (total N = 4,398) which provide evidence for the predominance of the dyad in daily life. Relative to larger group sizes, dyads are most common across a wide range of activities (e.g., conversations, projects, holidays, movies, sports, bars) obtained from three time moments (past activities, present, and future activities), sampling both mixed-sex and same-sex groups, with three different methodological approaches (retrospective reports, real-time data capture, and preference measures) in the United States and the Netherlands. We offer four mechanisms that may help explain this finding: reciprocity, coordination, social exclusion, and reproduction. The present findings advance our understanding of how individuals organize themselves in everyday life.

scholarly journals Destino ou escolha? Narrativas e memórias acerca do trabalho a partir das experiências intergeracionais de domésticas em Porto Alegre/RS

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (33) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luísa M. S. Dantas
Keyword(s):  
Initial Data ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Domestic Service ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Anthropological Approach

A partir de uma abordagem antropológica, essa proposta de trabalho visa problematizar as transformações, mas também continuidades, no serviço doméstico através de narrativas e memórias de diferentes gerações de mulheres que o exercem e/ou exerceram imersas em diversas configurações, chamando atenção para as trajetórias sociais, significados que atribuem ao trabalho e conhecimento e/ou proximidade com o Sindicato dos Empregados Domésticos. Além disso, busco atentar para seus itinerários urbanos e suas formas de sociabilidade. Nesse momento, partindo de dados iniciais da minha pesquisa de campo de doutorado, trabalharemos com as trajetórias sociais e de trabalho de quatro “domésticas”, com idades entre 29 e 61 anos, na cidade de Porto Alegre/RS. Assim, pautando minha análise no “saber-fazer” dessas mulheres, nos seus projetos e campo de possibilidades, é que esse trabalho se insere em uma abordagem “compreensiva” das práticas de mulheres “domésticas” no mundo da vida cotidiana, que envoltas em dramas e conflitos, também acionam direitos e inventam táticas para dar significado às suas escolhas e itinerários no jogo da vida social em Porto Alegre/RS. Palavras-Chave: Gênero. Serviço Doméstico. Formas de Sociabilidade. Porto Alegre. Destination or choose? Narratives and memories about the work from the experiences of intergenerational housekeepers in Porto Alegre /RS AbstractFrom an anthropological approach, this proposed work aims to discuss the changes, but also continuities, in domestic service through narratives and memories of generations of women who exercise and / or have been immersed in various settings, calling attention to the social trajectories, meanings that attach to the work and knowledge and / or proximity to the Union of Domestic Employees. Also, I try to pay attention to their urban itineraries and forms of sociability. At this time, starting from initial data from my doctoral field research, I work with the social and work trajectories of four "domestic", aged between 29 and 61 years old in Porto Alegre / RS. Thus, basing my analysis on "know-how" of these women, in their projects and field of possibilities, is that this work is part of an approach "comprehensive" practice of housekeepers in the world of everyday life, which wrapped in dramas and conflicts also trigger rights and devise tactics to give meaning to their choices and itineraries in the game of social life in Porto Alegre / RS. Keywords: Gender. Domestic Service. Forms of Sociability. Porto Alegre.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF GUILD TOWARDS THE DUTCH ECONOMY AND COMMUNITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fajar Muhammad Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
European Society ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The history of the growth of a city in Western Europe, particularly the cities in the Benelux region in the Middle Ages cannot be separated from the presence of Guilds, which is a group of craftsman for tools in need by society to lead their everyday life. With a simple and compact historical approach, this paper reveals the legacies left by Guilds in medieval times. These legacies have physical and non-physical (social systems) form in the social life of today's modern European society, especially the Dutch community who are in the Benelux region. However there are several loopholes that could bring negative impact in today's modern social life.

scholarly journals Sufisme dan Warung Kopi: Dialog “Pengajian Sufi” dengan “Masyarakat Warung Kopi” di Yogyakarta

ESOTERIK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Aflahal Misbah
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday

<p class="06IsiAbstrak">This paper seeks to depict a reciprocal dialogue between the religious gathering of Sufism that is typical with piety and the social activities in the coffeehouse given to take pleasure and leisure occurring in one place in Yogyakarta. This depiction intends for reconsidering deeply how Sufism influences to society. Despite the gathering going on weekly, the everyday life of coffeehouse society from January to July in 2018 will present here to support the picture of dialogue. In result, there is a change of social formation in the coffeehouse by virtue of an encounter between piety and pleasure and leisure. However, this change is not as simply as Misbah (Misbah, 2018b) sketch before consisting of <em>followers (Jama’ah), coffee drinkers, and visitors. </em>It is due to the main characteristics<em> </em>of coffeehouse society that tends to be freely from what social status is, thereby becoming difficult enough to formulate precisely. Of this, there is thus a question in relation with what the harmonious landscape in coffeehouse described by Misbah (Misbah, 2018b) is completely generated from Sufism or a product of the social life of coffeehouse.</p>

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