Book chapter
Eco-Sensory Technologies and the Surrealist Impulse
An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies, pp.155-171
Routledge, 1
2022
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Abstract
Critically responding to the contemporary capture and redistribution of experience through digital technologies, we focus on a series of creative ethnographic experiments with sensory technologies conducted by members of the Manifold Lab in collaboration with young people in Manchester, UK. We draw on theories of the haptic eye and a/signification from Deleuze and Guattari, to problematise conventional descriptions of sensation, in search of the intensive, the imperceptible, and the eco-sensory. Our focus in this chapter is on sensor technologies as potential agents of surrealist ethnographic experimentation. We engage with digital devices as ecological agents, tracking intensive flows, layering affect, invaginating power, ramifying insight, and entangling concepts through playful inversion, pursuing a kind of surreal participation that avoids de-scription and conventional causal exegesis. We argue that critical and creative engagements with digital technology helps to counter simplistic models of ethnographic representation.
Details
- Title
- Eco-Sensory Technologies and the Surrealist Impulse
- Creators
- Elizabeth de FreitasMaggie MacLureDavid Rousell
- Contributors
- Débora Lanzeni (Editor)Karen Waltorp (Editor)Sarah Pink (Editor)Rachel C. Smith (Editor)
- Publication Details
- An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies, pp.155-171
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Identifiers
- 991013072448002368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter