Symmetrifying Smart Home
This paper investigates how the current domestic application of the Internet of Things (IoT), called “smart home,” changes the socio-phenomenological meaning of place-making. It describes a smart home as a topological continuum that could unfold lots of functional spaces—those optimized for a varie...
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Simon Dawes, Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (CHCSC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)
2021-09-01
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This paper investigates how the current domestic application of the Internet of Things (IoT), called “smart home,” changes the socio-phenomenological meaning of place-making. It describes a smart home as a topological continuum that could unfold lots of functional spaces—those optimized for a variety of predictable user behaviors and intentions, such as going to bed, working out, and energy-saving—according to how software applications redeploy its embedded sensors and actuators into certain algorithmic orders. This continuum once buried under people’s daily routines is constantly re-excavated in a smart home and re-differentiated into the new service domains of the IoT. This paper develops a topological framework to analyze the new form of media power behind this perpetual place-binding of smart spaces, which I term topological power. For this goal, it borrows Bernhard Riemann and Henri Poincaré’s mathematical thinking of manifold, or multiplicity, beneath the geometric structure of space.
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| spelling | doaj-art-b8181ee943df4df68c86e48c90c643202025-08-20T03:25:04ZengSimon Dawes, Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (CHCSC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)Media Theory2557-826X2021-09-015110.70064/mt.v5i1.911Symmetrifying Smart HomeSungyong Ahn This paper investigates how the current domestic application of the Internet of Things (IoT), called “smart home,” changes the socio-phenomenological meaning of place-making. It describes a smart home as a topological continuum that could unfold lots of functional spaces—those optimized for a variety of predictable user behaviors and intentions, such as going to bed, working out, and energy-saving—according to how software applications redeploy its embedded sensors and actuators into certain algorithmic orders. This continuum once buried under people’s daily routines is constantly re-excavated in a smart home and re-differentiated into the new service domains of the IoT. This paper develops a topological framework to analyze the new form of media power behind this perpetual place-binding of smart spaces, which I term topological power. For this goal, it borrows Bernhard Riemann and Henri Poincaré’s mathematical thinking of manifold, or multiplicity, beneath the geometric structure of space. https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/911Internet of Thingssmart hometopologymanifoldontopowerrisk society |
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| topic | Internet of Things smart home topology manifold ontopower risk society |
| url | https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/911 |
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