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Unreal Objects: Digital Materialities, Technoscientific Projects and Political Realities

Unreal Objects: Digital Materialities, Technoscientific Projects and Political Realities

Unreal Objects: Digital Materialities, Technoscientific Projects and Political Realities Paperback / softback - 2017

by Kate O'Riordan

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Paperback / softback. New. Unpacks the political economy of new science and technology projects, and the implications for a utopian future
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  • Title Unreal Objects: Digital Materialities, Technoscientific Projects and Political Realities
  • Author Kate O'Riordan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 174
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pluto Press (UK)
  • Publication date 2017
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780745336749
  • ISBN 9780745336749 / 0745336744
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.7 in (20.83 x 13.46 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Research, Technological innovations
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2023394770
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.483
  • Quantity available 10

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From the publisher

More than ever before, scientific and technological innovations are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. New products developing today will fundamentally shape the world around us and manipulate our lived experience in the future. In twenty years, we could be zooming on hoverboards to visit real-life Jurassic Parks or navigating with our optic-implanted GPS systems. In this age of blossoming innovation, however, many wonder: how and why are these important projects chosen? And what are the ultimate consequences of this process?

In Unreal Objects, Kate O'Riordan unpacks these crucial questions and fills a gap in the theorization of digital materialities. Through her investigation, she discovers that many objects--such as genomic projects, artificial meat, and re-creation of extinct species--cannot be granted scientific legitimacy and developed without extraordinary amounts of media, celebrity endorsements, and private investment. As a result of these filters, only certain projects take center stage when it comes to funding and political attention. O'Riordan calls these unreal objects; scientific projects and technologies whose utopian visions for the future are combined with investment and materialization in the here and now. By separating the media hype from the reality, O'Riordan shows how the huge amount of attention paid to these unreal objects hides more pressing social injustices and inequalities, while at the same time conjuring utopian visions for how life might be lived.

About the author

Kate O'Riordan is a reader in digital media at the University of Sussex. She has authored or edited five books including The Genome Incorporated: Constructing Biodigital Identity.
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