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Systems Ultra
Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World
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The world today is so complex that it mitigates our understanding of it. It can be difficult to comprehend the flows of power which run through the networked technologies, global supply chains, and supranational regulations that exist all around us and influence our everyday lives. These...
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A TOOLBOX FOR COMPREHENDING - AND CHANGING - THE WORLD
A guide to the networked world and how to change it
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The world today is so complex that it mitigates our understanding of it. It can be difficult to comprehend the flows of power which run through the networked technologies, global supply chains, and supranational regulations that exist all around us and influence our everyday lives. These are systems - sets of things interconnected in such a way that they produce their own patterns and behaviours over time.
Systems Ultra explores how we experience these phenomena, how to understand them more clearly, and, perhaps, how to change them.
In a series of scenarios, Georgina Voss shows us how to parse our complex world, looking at it through five themes - scale, legacy, matter, deviance, and breakage - via contemporary industrial settings of ports, air traffic control, architecture and construction, payment systems in adult entertainment, and car crash testing.
In these human-made systems, what is designed and what emerges? What does it mean for a software-dependent car to break? What does the use of design software tell us about the workplace culture of architects, and therefore the limitations of architecture? What happens to port cities and workers if container ships keep getting bigger?
Systems Ultra offers a toolbox for comprehending, and changing, the world.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781839760556
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 23 January 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 316g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Georgina Voss is a writer, artist, and academic. She is Director of Supra Systems Studio at University of the Arts London, and co-founded research studio Strange Telemetry. Her writing has been published by The Atlantic, Harvard Design Magazine, The Guardian, BBC Futures, V&A, WIRED, and MIT Press, amongst others. Her installation and performance work has been shown at TAC Eindhoven, The Design Museum, Auto Italia South East, Artefact Festival, Vienna Biennale, Brighton Digital Festival, STUK, Tate Modern, and Akademie Schloss Solitude. She has held residencies with transmediale, Autodesk, RAMLAB: Port of Rotterdam, Somerset House Studios, and Lighthouse Arts Brighton. She has held previous and visiting positions with Tinker London, MIT, Royal
College of Art, Goldsmiths, University of Southern California, The New School, and NYU.
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