Fabric(ated) Ontologies: the biopolitics of smart design in clothing and jewellery

Cranny-Francis, A

Fabric(ated) Ontologies: the biopolitics of smart design in clothing and jewellery

Cranny-Francis, A

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Publisher:: RMIT University
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: The Body: Connections with Fashion - IFFTI 2008, 2008, pp. 78 - 87
Issue Date:: 2008-01

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dc.contributor.author	Cranny-Francis, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5747-1183	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Guglielmino, T	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Peel, M	en_US
dc.date	2008-03-13	en_US
dc.date.issued	2008-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	The Body: Connections with Fashion - IFFTI 2008, 2008, pp. 78 - 87	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/16705
dc.description.abstract	This paper exploresthe biopotiticsof smaf design as it is realised in contemporary smart clothing and jewellery. The discussion hinges on our understanding of the meanings of technology and of the relationship between technology and human ontology, i.e. human being. \f begins by exploring the assumed relationship between clothing and skin - that clothing is a form of skin, a second skin - which leads us fo explore the ways in which skin operates as a technology. My argument is that skin is not a form of technology, and that making fhis assumption leads to a re-invocation of the mind-body split, which makes human subjects susceptible to ordering by their own technology. lnstead the paper argues for recognition of clothing (and jewellery) as technology, and the examination of wearables as a more technical form of an existing technology. This enables us fo explore the ways in which human being is modified and transformed by this new technology and to choose applications that enhance the potential of individual subjects.	en_US
dc.publisher	RMIT University	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	The Body: Connections with Fashion - IFFTI 2008	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Annual Conference for the International Foundation of Fashion	en_US
dc.title	Fabric(ated) Ontologies: the biopolitics of smart design in clothing and jewellery	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.location	Melbourne, Australia	en_US
utslib.location.activity	Melbourne, Australia	en_US
utslib.for	2002 Cultural Studies	en_US
dc.location.activity	Melbourne, Australia	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
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
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.consider-herdc	false	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Melbourne, Australia	en_US
pubs.start-date	2008-03-13	en_US

Abstract:

This paper exploresthe biopotiticsof smaf design as it is realised in contemporary smart clothing and jewellery. The discussion hinges on our understanding of the meanings of technology and of the relationship between technology and human ontology, i.e. human being. \f begins by exploring the assumed relationship between clothing and skin - that clothing is a form of skin, a second skin - which leads us fo explore the ways in which skin operates as a technology. My argument is that skin is not a form of technology, and that making fhis assumption leads to a re-invocation of the mind-body split, which makes human subjects susceptible to ordering by their own technology. lnstead the paper argues for recognition of clothing (and jewellery) as technology, and the examination of wearables as a more technical form of an existing technology. This enables us fo explore the ways in which human being is modified and transformed by this new technology and to choose applications that enhance the potential of individual subjects.

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