Creators: | Ploeger, Daniel |
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Abstract: | Building on anthropologist Mary Douglas’s writing on the ritual function of dirt, this article presents a strategy in digital performance art that engages with electronic waste (e-waste). It is suggested that planned obsolescence in electronics is of a particular nature that facilitates the representation of consumer technologies within the logic of a “symbolic order of technological progress,” where digital devices act as mere signifiers for abstract notions of connectivity, well-being and innovation. Conceptualizing discarded electronic devices as abject technology that is positioned outside this symbolic structure, a performance practice is proposed where abject body parts and abject technologies are connected to challenge this techno-ideology. |
Official URL: | http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/LE... |
Item Type: | Article |
Date: | 6 April 2017 |
Identification Number: | 10.1162/LEON_a_01159 |
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ID Code: | 616 |
Deposited By: | Ms Research Administrator |
Deposited On: | 04 Jul 2017 09:36 |
Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2017 10:29 |