Kitchin, Rob and Dodge, Martin (2005) Code and the Transduction of Space. Annals of the Association of American Geographers , 95 (1). pp. 162-180. ISSN 0004-5608
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Abstract
The effects of software (code) on the spatial formation of everyday life are best understood through a theoretical
framework that utilizes the concepts of technicity (the productive power of technology to make things happen)
and transduction (the constant making anew of a domain in reiterative and transformative practices). Examples
from the lives of three Londoners illustrate that code makes a difference to everyday life because its technicity
alternatively modulates space through processes of transduction. Space needs to be theorized as ontogenetic, that
is, understood as continually being brought into existence through transductive practices (practices that change
the conditions under which space is (re)made). The nature of space transduced by code is detailed and illustrated
with respect to domestic living, work, communication, transport, and consumption.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | everyday life; code; ontogenesis; transduction; technicity; space; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA |
Item ID: | 3077 |
Depositing User: | Prof. Rob Kitchin |
Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2012 12:43 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Annals of the Association of American Geographers |
Publisher: | American Geographical Society |
Refereed: | Yes |
URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/3077 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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