Michael, Mike and Gaver, William. 2009. Home Beyond Home: Dwelling With Threshold Devices. Space and Culture, 12(3), pp. 359-370. [Article]

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This article attempts to explore "dwelling" in the contemporary technonatural world through a series of novel interventions in the home. In particular, users' reactions to one of three "threshold devices"—the video window, the local barometer, and the plane tracker—are studied ethnographically. Drawing on Heidegger, the authors interpret the opaque functionality of these technologies as "poetical" insofar as they facilitate users' access to the heterogeneity, ambiguity, and complexity of the technonatural world within which the home is situated. Such access, the authors suggest, can resource a dwelling through which "care" can be enacted. Some of the methodological and political implications of such devices are discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331209337076
Keywords:	threshold devices, dwelling, technonature, home
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology > Centre for Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP) [2003-2015]
Dates:	Date Event 2009 Published
Item ID:	2488
Date Deposited:	22 Jan 2010 10:52
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2017 11:12
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/2488

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