Abstract
![CDATA[This chapter is a retrospective autobiographical look at the background to “Container Technologies” (Sofia 2000), which included studies of space and science fiction culture, and research on women and electronic arts in the 1990s, from which came the idea of “smart space.” It reflects on some of the essay’s biases and deficiencies, and outlines how recent scholarship has clarified the distinction between containers as objects that hold things within them, and containment as a process of holding together a leaky and contingent network of entities, things, and places. A discussion of the bubble metaphor in the pandemic explores aspects of this distinction. A container may be designed to preserve, keep, and hold; containment by contrast may provoke change in the world by altering relationships between parts of it.]]
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Containment: Technologies of Holding, Filtering, Leaking |
Editors | Marie-Luise Angerer, Ingrid Richardson, Hannah Schmedes, Zoe Sofoulis |
Place of Publication | Germany |
Publisher | Meson Press |
Pages | 41-57 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783957962188 |
Publication status | Published - 2024 |