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(Textile History) . Garments of Paradise gives an impressive overview of wearable technology as an evolving set of ideas within a range of historical and social contexts. Garments of Paradise extends and updates knowledge of the forces that transform social ideology, behaviour and consumption, along with our primal instinct to ward off evils: to look and feel good. Garments

(Textile History) . Garments of Paradise gives an impressive overview of wearable technology as an evolving set of ideas within a range of historical and social contexts. Garments of Paradise extends and updates knowledge of the forces that transform social ideology, behaviour and consumption, along with our primal instinct to ward off evils: to look and feel good. Garments of Paradise teaches us to distinguish wearables from smart phones, Google Glass devices, and Twitter Dresses. (Geert Lovink, Institute of Network Cultures)Susan Elizabeth Ryan weaves an n-dimensional critical analysis of wearable computing that is extensive and highly researched. She presents a multiperspective approach to knowledge production focused on the body in relation to the multifaceted potentials of computation -- from function, to form, to erotics. The book makes an invaluable contribution to shaping the discourse on wearable technologies as a cultural phenomenon embedded in social behavior, communication, and display.

Susan Elizabeth Ryan is Professor of Art History, Theory, New Media, and Design at the Louisiana State University School of Art.

"Garments of paradise" is a reference to wearable technology's promise of physical and mental enhancements. She proposes that wearable technologies comprise a pragmatics of enhanced communication in a social landscape. She connects the ideas of dress and technology historically, in terms of major discourses of art and culture, and in terms of mass media and media culture, citing such thinkers as Giorgio Agamben, Manuel De Landa, and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. In this book, Susan Elizabeth Ryan examines wearable technology as an evolving set of ideas and their contexts, always with an eye on actual wearables -- on clothing, dress, and the histories and social relations they represent. Ryan defines "dress acts" -- hybrid acts of communication in which the behavior of wearing is bound up with the materiality of garments and devices -- and focuses on the use of digital technology as part of such systems of meaning. She examines the early history of wearable technology as it emerged in research labs; the impact of ubiquitous and affective approaches to computing; interaction design and the idea of wearable technology as a language of embodied technology; and the influence of open source ideology. Twenty years ago, wearable technology reflected cultural preoccupations with cyborgs and augmented reality; today, it reflects our newer needs fo

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• Title : Garments of Paradise: Wearable Discourse in the Digital Age (MIT Press)
• Author : Susan Elizabeth Ryan
• Rating : 4.67 (504 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-5-15
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 336 Pages
• Asin : 0262027445
• Language : English