Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World by Georgina Voss Ha

Description: Systems Ultra by Georgina Voss A TOOLBOX FOR COMPREHENDING - AND CHANGING - THE WORLD FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The world today is so complex that it mitigates our understanding of it. It can be difficult to comprehend the flows of power which run through the networked technologies, global supply chains, and supranational regulations that exist all around us and influence our everyday lives. These are systems - sets of things interconnected in such a way that they produce their own patterns and behaviours over time. Systems Ultra explores how we experience these phenomena, how to understand them more clearly, and, perhaps, how to change them.In a series of scenarios, Georgina Voss shows us how to parse our complex world, looking at it through five themes - scale, legacy, matter, deviance, and breakage - via contemporary industrial settings of ports, air traffic control, architecture and construction, payment systems in adult entertainment, and car crash testing. In these human-made systems, what is designed and what emerges? What does it mean for a software-dependent car to break? What does the use of design software tell us about the workplace culture of architects, and therefore the limitations of architecture? What happens to port cities and workers if container ships keep getting bigger? Systems Ultra offers a toolbox for comprehending, and changing, the world. Author Biography Georgina Voss is a writer, artist, and academic. She is Director of Supra Systems Studio at University of the Arts London, and co-founded research studio Strange Telemetry. Her writing has been published by The Atlantic, Harvard Design Magazine, The Guardian, BBC Futures, V&A, WIRED, and MIT Press, amongst others. Her installation and performance work has been shown at TAC Eindhoven, The Design Museum, Auto Italia South East, Artefact Festival, Vienna Biennale, Brighton Digital Festival, STUK, Tate Modern, and Akademie Schloss Solitude. She has held residencies with transmediale, Autodesk, RAMLAB: Port of Rotterdam, Somerset House Studios, and Lighthouse Arts Brighton. She has held previous and visiting positions with Tinker London, MIT, RoyalCollege of Art, Goldsmiths, University of Southern California, The New School, and NYU. Table of Contents 1. Systems2. Scale3. Legacy4. Matter5. Deviance6. Breakage Review Georgina Voss thoughtfully explores the dizzying operations and implications of the vast machineries that dominate contemporary life, without ever losing sight of their everyday physicality: their meat and flesh, silicon and steel. A brilliant and hugely enjoyable read. -- James Bridle, author of Ways of BeingWith an ethnographers eye, a comedians wit, and a travel guides sense of adventure, Georgina Voss steers us through the docks and control rooms, the convention halls and design studios, the interfaces and archives from which we can glimpse the global systems that constitute and actuate our contemporary world. Along the way, we gather a set of critical tools for looking at, listening to, mapping, diagramming, scaling, sensing, and feeling our place within these sublime structures - not merely to understand them, but also to equip ourselves to resist, break, hack, and hustle when things need to change. -- Shannon Mattern, author of The City Is Not A ComputerStep inside this book and suddenly, youve got a golden ticket to a Willy Wonka wonderland where everything is connected to everything else. Youll never see systems - of any kind - the same way again -- Fred Turner, Harry & Norman Chandler Professor of Communication, Stanford UniversityUnpacks the hidden complexities of the way we live today, and shows why it is essential for us to understand their means and characteristics. From the networks that control payments systems, vast global shipping routes as well as the ways our cities are designed, she explores their history and why they matter. Too often, we only realise these extraordinary powers that dictate our everyday lives when they go wrong, this is an essential manual to modern life. -- Bruce Schneier, author of A Hackers Mind: How the Rich and Powerful Bend Societys Rules, and How to Bend Them BackIt can be surprisingly hard to articulate what a "system" actually is, but thank goodness we have Georgina Voss whose humorous and thought-provoking book vibrantly unpacks the nuances of systems and system thinking. As we follow her through a gargantuan electronics fair in Vegas, one of the largest shipping container ports in Rotterdam, a slick makerspace in Silicon Valley, and a pornography industry trade show, Voss draws on her unusual expertise as both creative practitioner and a researcher to distill what a systems worldview does, what it overlooks and where it breaks. -- Tega Brain, author of Code as Creative MediumVoss manages to skillfully unpack the power structures that make up, and reinforce, the large-scale systems we live in. Along the way, she also dispels many of the stories were told about their inscrutability and inevitability.She does all this with humor, intelligence, and a boundless sense of curiosity. -- Bryan Gardiner * MIT Technology Review * Promotional A guide to the networked world and how to change it Details ISBN1839760559 Author Georgina Voss Publisher Verso Books Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781839760556 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-01-23 Imprint Verso Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2024-01-23 UK Release Date 2024-01-23 Audience General Subtitle Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World Pages 224 AU Release Date 2024-04-29 ISBN-10 1839760559 DEWEY 003 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159951180;

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