QuantifiedSelf-City-NationMatthew W. Wilson, PhDHarvard UniversityUniversity of [email protected]@wilsonism
25 March 2014The Programmable City
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QuantifiedSelf-City-Nationmulti-scalar system of attentional control
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QuantifiedSelf-City-Nationmulti-scalar system of attentional controlwhere the organization of a body
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QuantifiedSelf-City-Nationmulti-scalar system of attentional controlwhere the organization of a bodybecomes the mimetic resourcefor the organization of bodies
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QuantifiedSelf-City-Nationmulti-scalar system of attentional controlwhere the organization of a bodybecomes the mimetic resourcefor the organization of bodies
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What might we learn about the social-cultural and political implications for this refiguring of spatial thought and action?
What capacities are reinforced and developed through the implementation of these
technologies and techniques?
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Movement and stasis.Analysis and visualization.Decision making and behavioral change.
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“What the map cuts up, the story cuts across.”
(de Certeau 1984: 129)
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“What the map cuts up, the story cuts across.”
(de Certeau 1984: 129)
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“What the map cuts up, the story cuts across.”
(de Certeau 1984: 129)
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“What the map cuts up, the story cuts across.”
(de Certeau 1984: 129)
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“What the map cuts up, the story cuts across.”
(de Certeau 1984: 129)
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“After all, who is going to take issue with the True?”
(Lefebvre 1991: 7)
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“That you cannot navigate a ship without charts, however, does not mean that you can navigate it by charts alone.
Rudders and helmsmen are also necessary.”
(Wright 1942: 544)
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Interoperability and propriety
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Interoperability and propriety
Competition and habit
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Interoperability and propriety
Competition and habit
Fashion and surveillance
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Interoperability and propriety
Competition and habit
Fashion and surveillance
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“New data and big data are changing all of this...”
(Batty 2012: 193)
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“We need to push our civic leaders to think more about long-term survival and
less about short-term gain, more about cooperation than competition...”
(Townsend 2013: 14)
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Interoperability and propriety
Competition and habit
Fashion and surveillance
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“The city’s crowds wanted less market movement, more government regulation,
fixity, and security. Physical movement in thecity only sharpened theirhunger pains.”
(Sennett 1994: 275)
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Interoperability and propriety
Competition and habit
Fashion and surveillance
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quantified#self-city-nation
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quantified#selfie?
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quantified#selfie?
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“… a hermeneutics of suspicion, a mode of argument which says that the strength of cartographical reason lies less in its ability to tell the truth and more in its power to convince.”
(Olsson 2007: 10)
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“… a hermeneutics of suspicion, a mode of argument which says that the strength of cartographical reason lies less in its ability to tell the truth and more in its power to convinced?
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