Kember 2016

Kember, Sarah. iMedia: The Gendering of Objects, Environments and Smart Materials. New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2016.

introduction

Critique of the "flattened ontology" of lists (Bogost 2012) and Object Oriented Ontology

"The fetishization of objects serves to align markets and metaphysics. It makes imedia OOPs theory compatible, if not necessarily complicit with, industry goals oriented to novelty and innovation -- iPhones -- rather than invention and intervention. Intervention is precluded in the shift from knowledge to things, and environments of things-in-themselves." (24)