Everyday (virtual) life

New Literary History

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 743-760

  Poster, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 60950676540     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2002.0043     Document Type: Review

References (37)

1. For an excellent overview of Lefebvre's work on the concept of everyday life see Michael Gardiner, Critiques of Everyday Life (New York, 2000)
2. One fascinating theory of everyday life in relation to technology is that of Mike Michael, Reconnecting Culture, Technology and. Nature: From Society to Heterogeneity (New York, 2000). He treats various technologies (walking boots, cars, TV remote controls, dog leashes) in new combinations of machines and human beings, based on theoretical perspectives of Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, and Michel Serres. He is interested in the mixing of humans and technologies, the formation of new social and cultural subjects. His work is highly recommended but it does not problematize media as such
3. Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life, tr. John Moore (London, 1991), p. 94; hereafter cited in text as C
4. Max Weber, Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology, vol. 1 (Berkeley, 1978)
5. Henri Lefebvre, "'The Everyday and Everydayness," Yale French Studies, 73 (1987), 9; hereafter cited in text as E
6. Kristin Ross in "Streetwise: The French Invention of Everyday Life," Parallax, 2 (1996), 67-75. disagrees with this assessment of Lefebvre's concept of everyday life. She argues that it is the most coherent of the several French theories of everyday life, including those of Louis Althusser and Michel de Certeau. I am grateful to Ray Gains for pointing me to the special issue of Parallax that includes Ross's essay
7. Jürgen Habermas, "Modernity, An Incomplete Project," in The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays in Postmodern Culture, ed. Hal Foster (Port Townsend, 1983), pp. 3-15
8. Norman Angell, The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage (Toronto, 1914)
9. Henri Lefebvre, Everyday Life in the Modern World, tr. Sacha Rabinovich (New York, 1971), p. 59; hereafter cited in text as ELM
10. Henri Lefebvre, The Explosion: Marxism and the French Revolution, tr. Alfred Ehrenfeld (New York, 1969)
11. Henri Lefebvre, Le language et la société (Paris, 1966)
12. and Henri Lefebvre, Au-delà du structuralisme (Paris, 1971)
13. See Fuat Firat and Nikhilesh Dholakia, Consuming People: From Political Economy to Theaters of Consumption (New York. 1998)
14. One thinks of the work of N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Chicago, 1999)
15. See also Sherry Turkle, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (New York, 1995)
16. Allucquere Rosanne Stone, The War of Desire and. Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age (Cambridge, Mass., 1995)
17. Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin. "Remediation," Configurations, 4 (1996)
18. Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media (Cambridge, Mass., 2001)
19. Above all, one must not forget the person who really initiated work on the media, Marshall McLuhan, in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York, 1964)
20. For a discussion of the role of the personal case history or anecdote in social and cultural analysis see Mike Michael, Reconnecting Culture, Technology, and Nature: From Society to Heterogeneity (New York. 2000), pp. 14-16
21. Dick Hebdige, Cut 'N' Mix: Culture, Identity, and Caribbean Music (New York, 1987)
22. Lynn Spigel, Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America (Chicago, 1992)
23. For the change in the public/private relation wrought by television, see Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior (New York, 1985)
24. For an excellent analysis of the impact of television in places outside the home see Anna McCarthy, Ambient Television: Visual, Culture and Public Space (Durham, 2001)
25. See Friedrich A. Kittler, Discourse Networks 1800/1900, tr. Michael Metteer (Stanford, 1990)
26. and William Burroughs, Naked Lunch (New York, 1959)
27. This work is still in the formative stages but there is some progress. See for example Jennifer Kahn, "Let's Make Your Head Interactive," Wired, August 2001, 106-15
28. Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (New York, 1988)
29. For a subtle investigation of this question see Rayford Guins, "'Now You're Living': The Promise of Home Theater and Deleuze's 'New Freedoms,"' Television & New Media, 2 (2001), 351-65
30. Michael Bull, Sounding out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life (New York, 2000); hereafter cited in text as S
31. See Mark Weiser, "The Future of Ubiquitous Computing on Campus," Commuications of the ACM, 41.1 (1998), 41-42, who writes extensively on this subject
32. See also Mark Weiser, "Less Intrusion Is More Useful," Computerworld, 31.7 (1997), 81-82
33. Mark Weiser, "Some Computer Science Issues in Ubiquitous Computing," Commuications of the ACM, 36.7 (1993), 74-85
34. and Mark Weiser, "Ubiquitous Computing," Computer, 26.10 (1993), 71-72. I am grateful to Katherine Hayles for informing me about Weiser's work
35. Mark Weiser, "The Computer for the 21st Century," Scientific American, September 1991, 94-100
36. Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript on the Societies of Control," October, 59 (1992), 3-7
37. Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History," Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (New York, 1969), pp. 257-58