Table Of Content
Foreword: The Towers in the World, the World in the Towers / Katerina Cizek Foreword: When Localities Go Global / Saskia Sassen Introduction / Deborah Cowen, Alexis Mitchell, Emily Paradis, Brett Story Toronto Digital Debt in a Precarious City / Emily Paradis, Heather Frise Toronto's Unsecure(d) Urban Debtscape / Alan Walks Automating Social Inequality / Krystle Maki ACORN's Campaign for Affordable Access / Judy Duncan, ACORN Transmutations / Nehal El-Hadi Security and Surveillance Digital Borders and Urban Worlds/ Stephen Graham Audre Lorde's File and June Jordan's Skyrise / Simone Browne Policing the Future(s) / R. Josh Scannell Policing Borders through Sound / Anja Kanngieser Big Data Meet Location Monitoring / James Kilgore Digital Apartheid / Visualizing Impact Mumbai Mumbai Rising, Buildings Falling / Emily Paradis, Brett Story, Deborah Cowen On "Market-Friendly" Planning in Mumbai / Hussain Indorewala, Shweta Wagh Kashaf Siddique on Being Precariously Home in the Suburbs / Deborah Cowen, Kashaf Siddique Dispatch from Mumbai / Deborah Cowen, Paramita Nath #WhyLoiter / Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan Shifting and Scripting Urban Lives High-Altitude Protests and Necropolitical Digits / Ju Hui Judy Han Terabytes of Love / Indu Vashist The Most Hated Woman in Israel / Shaka McGlotten DIY WI-FI / Heather Frise Network Dislocations / Nicole Starosielski Singapore The Labour of Global City Building / Alexis Mitchell, Deborah Cowen Skyline of Dreams / Grace Baey Sunny Island Set in the Sea / Charmaine Chua Singapore as "Best Home" / Natalie Oswin Not Another Cinderella Story / Symon James-Wilson Index
Synopsis
Digital technologies have changed the world, transforming how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, distribute, and consume. Digital Lives in the Global City examines those changes in the context of urban life, investigating how urban land, governance, and the economy are being remade by advancing communication technologies. Interspersing critical scholarship with provocative short works from non-tradtional authors to engage with a wide range of issues wrought by digital infrastructure, the book addresses such topics as struggles over unsafe and illegal buildings in Mumbai, the conditions of migrant work in Singapore, the question of digital debt in Toronto, and targeted policing in New York. This nuanced exploration reveals the profound connections between digital technologies and the social life of global cities., Digital technologies have changed the world, transforming how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, create, produce, distribute, and consume. Digital Lives in the Global City examines the entanglements of urban life, investigating how urban land, governance, and the economy are being remade by advancing communication technologies. Digital infrastructures connect people and places across vast distances, yet they also extend the working day into personal time and space, increase the power of financial institutions, and enhance state and corporate surveillance capacities. Digital Lives in the Global City intersperses critical scholarship with provocative short works from artists, activists, and citizens to engage with a wide range of issues wrought by digital infrastructure: struggles over unsafe and illegal buildings in Mumbai, the conditions of migrant work in Singapore, the question of digital debt in Toronto, and targeted policing in New York. This nuanced exploration reveals the profound connections between digital technologies and the social life of global cities., Digital Lives in the Global City asks how digital technologies are remaking urban life around the world, from migrant work in Singapore to digital debt in Toronto, illegal buildings in Mumbai, and targeted policing in New York.
