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Software, Objects, and Home Space

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  • Martin Dodge

    (Department of Geography, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, England)

  • Rob Kitchin

    (Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland)

Abstract

Through a series of interrelated developments, software is imbuing everyday objects with capacities that allow them to do additional and new types of work. On the one hand, objects are remade and recast through interconnecting circuits of software that make them machine readable. On the other, objects are gaining calculative capacities and awareness of their environment that allow them to conduct their own work, with only intermittent human oversight, as part of diverse actant networks. In the first part of the paper we examine the relationship between objects and software in detail, constructing a taxonomy of new types of coded objects. In the second part we explore how the technicity of different kinds of coded objects is mobilised to transduce space by considering the various ways in which coded objects are reshaping home life in different domestic spaces.

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  • Martin Dodge & Rob Kitchin, 2009. "Software, Objects, and Home Space," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 41(6), pages 1344-1365, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:41:y:2009:i:6:p:1344-1365
    DOI: 10.1068/a4138
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