Appendix: Supplemental Lessons

TRACKING THE SELF AND SURVEILLING OTHERS

What qualities of life lend themselves to metriciziation? Health, productivity, security? What tools do we use to measure those qualities, and through what methods? How are those qualities then operationalized in our homes, schools, workplaces, and cities? How can we design for them and for their continual monitoring?

  • Deane Simpson, “Metric Regimes of Urban Well-Being” in Franceso Garutti, ed., Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism (Canadia Centre for Architecture / Sternberg Press, 2019): 209-20. 
  • Shannon Mattern, “Databodies in Codespace,” Places Journal (April 2018). 
  • Natasha Dow Schüll, “Self in the Loop: Bits, Patterns, and Pathways in the Quantified Self,” in Zizi Papacharissi, ed., A Networked Self and Human Augmentics, Artificial Intelligence, Sentience (Routledge, 2019): 25 – 38. 
  • Sophia Maalsen, “Revising the Smart Home as Assemblage,” Housing Studies (2019): 17pp.  
  • Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson, “One Nation Tracked,” The New York Times (2019): please read the intro article (“Twelve Million Phones…”) and a few others within the collection.  
  • Search for recent news (especially in venues like The Verge, The Intercept, Gizmodo, Wired, etc) re: the Amazon Alexa, Amazon Ring, or Google Home. See also @hypervisible’s Twitter feed. 

Supplemental Resources:

  • Genevieve Bell, Mark Blythe, and Phoebe Sengers, “Making by Making Strange: Defamiliarization and the Design of Domestic Technologies,” ACM Transactions in Computer-Human Interaction 12:3 (2005): 149-73. 
  • Victor Buchli, Introduction, in An Anthropology of Home (Bloomsbury, 2013): 1-17. 
  • Kate Crawford, Jessica Lingel, and Tero Karppi, “Our Metrics, Ourselves: A Hundred Years of Self-Tracking from the Weight Scale to the Wrist Wearable Device,” European Journal of Cultural Studies 18:4-5 (2015). 
  • Vaike Fors, Sarah Pink, Martin Berg, and Tom O’Dell, Imagining Personal Data: Experiences of Self-Tracking (Bloomsbury, 2020). 
  • Kristen Gram-Hanssen, “Automation, Smart Homes and Symmetrical Anthropology: Non-Humans as Performers of Practices,” in Cecily Maller and Yolande Strengers, eds., Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans: Nature, Materials and Technologies (Springer 2019). 
  • * Christine Hine, “Strategies for Reflexive Ethnography in the Smart Home: Autoethnography of Silence and Emotion,” Sociology (2019). 
  • Jacob Kastrenakes, “Apple, Google, and Amazon are Teaming Up to Develop an Open-Source Smart Home Standard,” The Verge (December 18, 2019). 
  • Sophia Maalsen and Jathan Sadowski, “The Smart Home on FIRE: Amplifying and  Accelerating Domestic Surveillance,” Surveillance & Society 17:½ (2019): 118-24.
  • Anne Meneley, “Walk This Way: Fitbit and Other Kinds of Walking in Palestine,” Cultural Anthropology 31:1 (2019): 130 – 154. 
  • Dawn Nafus and Gina Neff, Self Tracking (MIT Press, 2016). 
  • Natasha Dow Schüll, “Data for Life: Wearable Technology and the Design of Self-Care,” BioSocieties (2016): 1 – 17. 
  • Space Caviar, eds., sqm: the quantified home (Lars Müller, 2014)
  • Eszter Steierhoffer and Justin McGuirk, Home Futures (Design Museum, 2018).
  • Yolande Strengers, Jenny Kennedy, Paula Arcari, Larissa Nicholls, and Melissa Gregg, “Protection, Productivity and Pleasure in the Smart Home,” CHI 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (2019). 
  • Jacqueline Wernimont, Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018). 
  • Alexandra Zarifoglu, Heather Patterson, and Faith McCreary, “Living Comfortably in Glass Houses,” EPIC (2016): 540. 

INSURANCE, MORTGAGES, & SEGREGATION 

  • Caley Horan, “Introduction” and “Insurance Investments in the Built Environment and the Reshaping of the Postwar Landscape” in “Actuarial Age: Insurance and the Emergence of Neoliberalism in the Postwar United States,” Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2011: 1 – 29, 97 – 145. *OR* “3 Questions : Historian Caley Horan on the Rise of Private Insurance in the U.S.,” MIT News (July 3, 2018). 
  • Tom Agnotti and Sylvia Morse, “Racialized Land Use and Housing Policies,” in Tom Agnotti and Sylvia Morse, eds., Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City (Terreform, 2017): 46-71. *OR* Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Introduction in Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).  
  • “Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America” and Wenfei Xu’s “History of the HOLC Redlining Maps” {interactive maps}
  • Sara Safransky, “Geographies of Algorithmic Violence: Redlining the Smart City,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2019). 
  • Erin McElroy, “Disruption at the Doorstep,” Urban Omnibus (November 6, 2019). 
  • Spatial Information Design Lab’s Million Dollar Blocks + Million Dollar Hoods

Supplemental Resources: 

  • Tom Agnotti, “Land Use and Zoning Matter,” in Tom Agnotti and Sylvia Morse, eds., Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City (Terreform, 2017): 18-44. 
  • Dan Bouk, How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual (University of Chicago Press, 2015). 
  • Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (St. Martin’s Press, 2018). 
  • Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America (Liveright, 2017).
  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).  

TRANSPORTATION

  • Ross Exo Adams, Circulation and Urbanization (Sage, 2019). 
  • Rebecca Bobisse and Andrea Pavia, Automatic for the City: Designing for People in the Age of the Driverless Car (RIBA, 2019). 
  • Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise (Cornell University Press, 2015).
  • Alex Rosenblat, Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work (University of California Press, 2019). 

SMART CITIES / SURVEILLANCE

OPTIMIZING NATURE / PLANETARY COMPUTATION

THE UNDERGROUND / EXTRACTION

  • Martín Arboleda, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism (Verso, 2020). 
  • Pierre Bélanger, Christopher Alton, and Nina-Marie Lister, “Decolonization of Planning” in Pierre Bélanger, ed., Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada’s Global Resource Empire, 2017—1217 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017): 438 – 519.
  • “Confronting Empire,” in Pierre Bélanger, ed., Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada’s Global Resource Empire, 2017—1217 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017): 296 – 432. 
  • Fernando Coronil, The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela (University of Chicago Press, 1997). 
  • Macarena Gómez-Barris, The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press, 2017).
  • Abby J. Kinchy, Roopali Phadke, and Jessica M. Smith, “Engaging the Underground: An STS Field in Formation,” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 4 (2018). 
  • Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, “Inside the Economy of Appearances” in Pierre Bélanger, ed., Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada’s Global Resource Empire, 2017—1217 (MIT Press, 2017): 194 – 227. 
  • Orit Halpern, “Golden Futures,” limn 10 (2018).  
  • David Hargreaves, “Sensing Like a State” in Pierre Bélanger, ed., Extraction Empire (MIT Press, 2017): 106 – 109. 
  • James Hopkinson, “State of Insecurity” in Pierre Bélanger, ed., Extraction Empire (MIT Press, 2017): 140 – 144. 
  • Shannon Mattern, “Extract and Preserve” New Geographies (Harvard GSD / Actar, 2017). 
  • June Nash, We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines (Columbia University Press, 1979).
  • Traci Brynne Voyles, Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country (University of Minnesota Press, 2015).