Wirelessness : radical empiricism in network cultures

Wirelessness : radical empiricism in network cultures / Adrian Mackenzie.

This title provides an account of the sensations associated with being entangled with wireless technologies that draws on the philosophical techniques of William James's radical empiricism.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mackenzie, Adrian, 1962-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Subjects:	Wireless communication systems > Social aspects. Wireless communication systems > Philosophy. Information society. Empiricism. COMPUTERS > Information Technology. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects. Empiricism Information society
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Table of Contents:

Substitutions: directions and termini in wireless cities
Wireless chips: digital signal processing as conjunctive envelope
Devices and their boundaries: inventing wireless as "vast space"
Acting wirelessly: from antenna to node database
Sorting inner and outer: wirelessness as product, wirelessness as affectional
Overconnected worlds: development projects as verification of the future
Live, forced, momentous options and belief in wirelessness.