Psyche and the Speed of Life

Sotirova-Kohli, Milena

doi:10.4324/9781003266402-19

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“…The creation of new sets of boundaries and checkpoints might create friction points for circulation, but automated check-in systems could reduce the friction while enabling ‘touchless’ forms of transaction and access. Similarly, lockdown restrictions might thwart some vectors of circulation while enabling compensatory forms of acceleration: meeting schedules, for example, no longer needed to factor in the time to move from one location to the other, work time could expand to fill the minutes formerly devoted to commuting, and so on (Sotirova-Kohli, 2022: 153).…”

Section: (Temporal) Disjunctionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview

Andrejevic,

O’Neill

2024

New Media & Society

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The pandemic response was a thoroughly mediated phenomenon – one that paired digital information technologies with automated logistical systems to address inter-related crises of circulation. In the logistical sphere, automated media were used to manage flows of people, commodities and even (in the case of ‘smart’ ventilation systems) air itself. In the media realm, automated systems played a role in circulating timely notifications and alerts and in detecting and responding to false information. This theme issue brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers focused on the analysis of automated control and response systems, including the networked devices and infrastructures that supported them, and the digital forms of data collection and processing they enabled. This introductory essay focuses on some organizing themes that emerge from the theme issue contributions, including the relationship between automation and the temporality of viral contagion, logics of pre-emptive intervention and forms of atmospheric and environmental control.

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Section: (Temporal) Disjunctionmentioning

confidence: 99%