The concept of smart homes as modern panopticons and surveillance mechanisms is a thought-provoking perspective that raises concerns about the privacy and security implications of connected technologies within our living spaces. Han(2022) says that Google presents the interconnected smart home of the future as an “electric orchestra” with the resident as a “conductor” (5). I…
When I think about the resistance of material things—those tactile objects giving shape and texture to physical reality—I think about how I bought a home in the forest on a small plot of land, where I put things into the earth so that it yields things in return. I think of how the invasive creep…
Han’s discussion of fluidity of information by infomatons in ‘Non-things’ shows how hyper-cultured our society has become. The apt attention we pay to information, which is referred to by Han (2022) as “non-things,” shows that the internet world has changed our lives and reality. The digital terministic screen indeed prevents us from having access to…