TY - CHAP

T1 - Ubiquitous Memory

T2 - I Do Not Remember, We Do Not Forget

AU - Chun, Wendy

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Wendy Chun takes up the claim that the ubiquity of our digital technology undoes common assumptions about the relationship between computer memory and human habit. Her analysis mobilizes discussions of neurobiology and computer infrastructures to argue that an understanding of memory not as storage, but memory as habit, where habit is “humanly-made nature” allows us to understand the ways in which we engage with our technologies. For Chun, we are not only habituated to the ubiquity of our technologies, our technologies also habituate us to new modes of being connected, to new forms of subjectivity.

AB - Wendy Chun takes up the claim that the ubiquity of our digital technology undoes common assumptions about the relationship between computer memory and human habit. Her analysis mobilizes discussions of neurobiology and computer infrastructures to argue that an understanding of memory not as storage, but memory as habit, where habit is “humanly-made nature” allows us to understand the ways in which we engage with our technologies. For Chun, we are not only habituated to the ubiquity of our technologies, our technologies also habituate us to new modes of being connected, to new forms of subjectivity.

KW - Digital media

UR - https://www.routledge.com/Ubiquitous-Computing-Complexity-and-Culture/Ekman-Bolter-Diaz-Sondergaard-Engberg/p/book/9780415743822

U2 - 10.4324/9781315781129

DO - 10.4324/9781315781129

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-0-415-74382-2

SP - 161

EP - 174

BT - Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity, and Culture

A2 - Ekman, Ulrik

PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

CY - New York

ER -