cosmopolitics
BOULLIER, D. (2015) » Cosmopolitics: “To Become Within”
From Cosmos to Urban Life » in A. Yaneva (ed.) What Is Cosmopolitical Design?, Farhnam: Ashgate. The only way to get into cosmopolitics is to become embedded in some situations either as an ordinary actor, or with the light equipment of ethnography, or else “to become within” (Haraway 2003). This compels one to have some […]
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Boullier, Dominique.- « Preserving diversity in social networks architectures”
in Massit-Follea, F. , Méadel, C. and Monnoyer-Smith, L. (ed.), Normative Experience in Internet Politics, Paris: Presses de l’Ecole des Mines, 2012. By analysing what is at stake in the captivity of all users with respect to a single platform of social network (i.e.Facebook), we aim not only to understand what is at stake […]
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Boullier, D. (2016), « Cosmopolitical Composition of Distributed Architectures »
First Monday, Volume 21, Number 12 – 5 December 2016 This paper tells the story of several distributed architectures “from within” and from personal experience. Using a “cosmopolitical compass”, we shall describe four types of architectures — including P2P — that are currently being debated, and find four other types in P2P as such, […]
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BOULLIER, Dominique, Habitele: mobile technologies reshaping urban life
URBE, v. 6 n. 1 Jan./Abr. 2014, pp.13-16. “Habitele” is a neologism that seeks to account for the anthropological mutation we are experiencing, when two thirds of human beings have become equipped with a mobile phone (6.8 billion subscriptions, i.e. approximately 4.5 billion individual users — figures of 2013). The “connected being” status changes […]
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