From extension to engagement: Mapping the imaginary of wearable technology

Cranny-Francis, A

From extension to engagement: Mapping the imaginary of wearable technology

Cranny-Francis, A

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Visual Communication, 2008, 7 (3), pp. 363 - 382
Issue Date:: 2008-08-01

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dc.contributor.author	Cranny-Francis, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5747-1183	en_US
dc.date.issued	2008-08-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Visual Communication, 2008, 7 (3), pp. 363 - 382	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1470-3572	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/14125
dc.description.abstract	This article maps the metaphors that have been used to facilitate human engagement with wearable technologies - extension, enhancement, augmentation - and locates the values and assumptions about the body and technology that they articulate. At the same time it considers the figure of the cyborg, in which many of these metaphors are incorporated fictionally and theoretically, and locates in this figure not one (interrogative, critical) meaning, but many possible meanings. The article then goes on to explore a recent reconfiguring of the human-technology relationship (Schroeder and Rebelo's 2007 analogy with the relationship between musician and intstrument), which it describes in terms of engagement - and to propose further that we need to embrace fully the embodied character of this relationship in order to realize the most creative possibilities of our relationship with the material world as expressed in this recent technology. © 2008 SAGE Publications.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Visual Communication	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1470357208092325	en_US
dc.title	From extension to engagement: Mapping the imaginary of wearable technology	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	3	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	7	en_US
utslib.for	2002 Cultural Studies	en_US
utslib.for	1203 Design Practice and Management	en_US
utslib.for	2001 Communication and Media Studies	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/School of Communication
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pubs.issue	3	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	7	en_US

Abstract:

This article maps the metaphors that have been used to facilitate human engagement with wearable technologies - extension, enhancement, augmentation - and locates the values and assumptions about the body and technology that they articulate. At the same time it considers the figure of the cyborg, in which many of these metaphors are incorporated fictionally and theoretically, and locates in this figure not one (interrogative, critical) meaning, but many possible meanings. The article then goes on to explore a recent reconfiguring of the human-technology relationship (Schroeder and Rebelo's 2007 analogy with the relationship between musician and intstrument), which it describes in terms of engagement - and to propose further that we need to embrace fully the embodied character of this relationship in order to realize the most creative possibilities of our relationship with the material world as expressed in this recent technology. © 2008 SAGE Publications.

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