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Performing Weedist
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146_2023_Article_1671.pdf
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Author(s)
Li, Kwan Q.
Cunningham, Joel A.
Date Issued
April 23, 2023
Publisher
Springer London
Citation
Li, Kwan Q. and Cunningham, Joel A. 2023. "Performing Weedist."
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Final published version
Abstract
Abstract
The world is currently facing a wave of data centre construction. Fuelled by an explosion of data production and the emergence of edge computing, our cities are witnessing the materialisation of new architectural typologies that increasingly convolute notions of digital and bodily distinction. Whilst the last 2 decades have seen the proliferation of separate human and post-human urban environments, here we consider the agency and performativity of human communities within increasingly tangled contexts. As edge computing continues to bring the material reality of data processing closer to our physical bodies, perhaps its time to reassess who, or what, our cities now serve. In an age of unprecedented digital transformation, when our identities seem to be ever more intangible, how we might perform within environments that are increasingly catering to our digital rather than bodily needs? Today, the Anthropocene expels nature to the periphery. Tomorrow, humans become marginalised—“weeds”, thriving in an epoch of data.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Architecture and Planning
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01671-8
