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Smart homes: domestic futurity as Infrastructure
Cultural Studies ( IF 1.533 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-26 , DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2021.1895254
Heather Suzanne Woods 1
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ABSTRACT

This essay analyzes the way that the Brookfield Residential (BR) Smart Home constructs domestic futurity, or a set of cultural practices and meanings pertaining to a mediated, technologically-advanced home and homelife. The BR Smart Home is a new mass-market smart domestic product produced in partnership with retail and logistics hegemon, Amazon. The Smart Home offers customizable, luxury smart living, to include the traditional (stainless steel appliances, a butler’s pantry) and the transitional (a drone heliopad, a new ‘Drop Zone’ room for Amazon and other deliveries). As an exemplar of mass-market smart home technology, the Smart Home communicates the durability of traditional conceptions of domesticity in the smart home age. At the same time, the BR Smart Home reveals the material shifts in domestic spaces goaded by new technological and economic developments. The Smart Homes’ changing spatial configurations reflect upon and intensify infrastructures that fortify divisions between the Smart Homeowners and marginalized others. Drawing on fieldwork completed at several BR Smart Homes, I argue that domestic futurity is a form of infrastructure that is (1) so well distributed as to be frequently hidden, (2) agential and transitional, and (3) subject to cultural transformation while simultaneously upholding residues of traditional domesticity.



中文翻译:

智能家居:作为基础设施的家庭未来

摘要

本文分析了布鲁克菲尔德住宅 (BR) 智能家居构建家庭未来的方式,或一组与中介的、技术先进的家庭和家庭生活相关的文化实践和意义。BR智能家居是与零售和物流巨头亚马逊合作生产的新型大众市场智能家居产品。智能家居提供可定制的豪华智能生活,包括传统的(不锈钢器具、管家食品室)和过渡性的(无人机直升机停机坪、亚马逊和其他交付的新“投递区”房间)。作为大众市场智能家居技术的典范,智能家居传达了智能家居时代传统家居观念的持久性。同时,BR 智能家居揭示了由新技术和经济发展推动的家庭空间的物质转变。智能家居不断变化的空间配置反映并加强了基础设施,这些基础设施加强了智能房主和边缘化他人之间的分歧。根据在几个 BR 智能家居完成的实地调查,我认为家庭未来是一种基础设施形式,它 (1) 分布如此之好以至于经常被隐藏,(2) 代理性和过渡性,以及 (3) 受文化转型的影响,同时同时维护传统家庭生活的残余。

更新日期:2021-03-26
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