Living with Everyday Technologies

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Date
2020-12
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Language
en
Pages
9
81-89
Series
ESPES, Volume 9, issue 2
Abstract
New and complex technologies are exceedingly present and in widespread use in contemporary cities globally. The urban lifeworld is saturated with various applications of information and computing technologies, but also more rudimentary forms of technology construct and create the urban everyday life as we know it. Many forms of urban technologies are perceived first through their everyday aesthetic qualities: how they look, feel, sound, or are otherwise encountered within the streetscape. Philosophical aesthetics, however, has tended to overlook everyday technologies as a topic, often due to unquestioned ideas of how a city should ideally look and feel. Thus, a more realistic approach to contemporary cities is needed, in which the deep-seated role of technologies is recognized and the experiences related to their entangled uses become acknowledged. This paper brings together recent developments in urban aesthetics with some of the core ideas of postphenomenological approaches to new urban technologies.
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Aesthetics, Urban aesthetics, philosophy of technology, everyday aesthetics, postphenomenology
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Lehtinen , S 2020 , ' Living with Everyday Technologies ' , ESPES , vol. 9 , no. 2 , pp. 81-89 . < https://espes.ff.unipo.sk/index.php/ESPES/article/view/183 >