A small world : smart houses and the dream of the perfect day / Davin Heckman.

Main entry:

Heckman, Davin, 1975-

Title & Author:

A small world : smart houses and the dream of the perfect day / Davin Heckman.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Description:

x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index.
A tale of two cities -- "Home is where the heart is", scientific management, electricity, and the early-twentieth-century home -- "Here's Johnny!" the introduction of information to the space of the home -- The emergence of the smart house -- The dawn of the perfect day.

Summary:

In A Small World, Davin Heckman considers how domestic technologies that free people to enjoy leisure time in the home have come to be understood as necessary parts of everyday life. Heckman's narrative stretches from the early-twentieth-century introduction into the home of electric appliances and industrial time-management techniques, through the postwar advent of television and the space-age house of tomorrow to the contemporary automated, networked smart home. He considers all these developments in relation to lifestyle and consumer narratives. Building on the tension between agency and control within the walls of homes designed to anticipate and fulfill desires, Heckman engages debates about lifestyle, posthumanism, and rights under the destabilizing influences of consumer technologies, and he considers the utopian and dystopian potential of new media forms.

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ISBN:

9780822341345 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822341344 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822341581 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822341581 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Home automation.
Technological innovations.
Domotique.
Innovations.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256041
Call No.: BIB 186327
Status: Available

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