Automation interrupted: How autonomous vehicle accidents transform the material politics of automation

Bissell, David

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.05.003

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“…Drones and UAVs have extended possibilities for rapid service delivery, surveillance and remote policing (Bamburry, 2015;Wall, 2016). AVs have profound implications for individual mobility, access to road infrastructure and the design and layout of cities (Thrun, 2010; although see Bissell, 2018;Stilgoe, 2018). Assistive and customer service robots in social care, education and retail are altering how citizens experience our environment, interact and learn (Kovacic, 2018;Prescott & Caleb-Solly, 2017).…”

Section: Contemporary Robotics and Automation: Claims And Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Strengers, 2013), virtual home assistants (e.g. Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Samsung's Bixby), personal robots and biometric wearable technologies (Greenfield, 2017), autonomous vehicles (Bissell, 2018;Stilgoe, 2018) and automated domestic security systems (Atkinson, 2016). Whilst within this realm there will be different degrees of individual control, these technologies are about satisfying individual preferences and maintaining personal urban (social and ecological) security.…”

Section: Automated Private Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Robotics and automation in the city: a research agenda

2019

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Globally cities are becoming experimental sites for new forms of robotic and automation technologies applied across a wide variety of sectors in multiple areas of economic and social life. As these innovations leave the laboratory and factory, this paper analyzes how robotics and automation systems are being layered upon existing urban digital networks, extending the capabilities and capacities of human agency and infrastructure networks, and reshaping the city and citizen's everyday experiences. To date, most work in this field has been speculative and isolated in nature. We set out a research agenda that goes beyond analysis of discrete applications and effects, to investigate how robotics and automation connect across urban domains and the implications for differential urban geographies, the selective enhancement of individuals and collective management of infrastructures, the socio-spatial sorting of cities and the potential for responsible urban innovation.

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Section: Contemporary Robotics and Automation: Claims And Concernsmentioning

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Section: Automated Private Consumptionmentioning

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Robotics and automation in the city: a research agenda

2019

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“…The visibility of the delivery rider as a boundary worker within a heteromated system has encouraged social scientists to ask questions about aspects of platform operations, namely those concerning the conditions in which these workers perform. Whilst such questions concerning labour are undoubtedly critically important, the market activity in which the goods produced through this labour participate is equally significant, and challenges any straightforward understanding of automation (Bissell ; Bissell and Del Casino ). An examination of markets explains how these conditions of labour occur, and further, how they are productive of and dependent upon broader social arrangements.…”

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Platforms, Markets, and Contingent Calculation: The Flexible Arrangement of the Delivered Meal

Richardson

2019

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UK online food delivery company Deliveroo has a platform that automates the coordination of meal delivery, creating a market for the delivered meal. This market indicates the necessity to examine the social arrangements produced through the platform beyond the labour of the delivery worker. Markets comprise heterogeneous actors that require their coordination to be calculated. Deliveroo, though, offers two competing views of markets. First, as interfaces in which supply and demand are represented as autonomous blocs that are articulated through the goods of the delivered meal whose constitution, including the labour of delivery, is black‐boxed. Second, as agencement—formatting collective arrangements—in which the goods of the delivered meal are contingently calculated as a flexible arrangement of riders, restaurants and customers whereby these actors have differing degrees of choice concerning their participation, and through which new service performances are emerging in the necessity for their contingent interaction.

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“…Traceable to Heidegger's philosophy on being and time, the notion of events was, for him, encapsulated in the term Ereignis-a German neologism denoting the coming-into-view of existence, or the advent of a state "to distinguish or discern which one's eyes see, and in seeing calling to oneself, appropriate" (Heidegger 1974, 27). This bursting-and callingforth of events portends a reality that is much more elusive to "human calculative grasping" (Crockett 2013, 75) and has already sparked new questions within geography and beyond concerning the ontology of phenomena such as mobilities (Hannam, Mostafanezhad, and Rickly 2016), geopolitics (Ingram 2017), and technology (Bissell 2018). In particular, recent geographic work is drawn to the abruptness and indeterminacy of change wrought by events, citing Zi zek's (2014) reference to these irruptions as effects that seem to "exceed" their causes, and as occurrences "not grounded in sufficient reason" (5).…”

Section: Evental Interventionsmentioning

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Evental Infrastructure: Momentous Geographies of Technoscience Production

Lin

2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Automation interrupted: How autonomous vehicle accidents transform the material politics of automation

Cited by 67 publications

References 43 publications

Robotics and automation in the city: a research agenda

Robotics and automation in the city: a research agenda

Platforms, Markets, and Contingent Calculation: The Flexible Arrangement of the Delivered Meal

Evental Infrastructure: Momentous Geographies of Technoscience Production

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