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Proxies: the hidden stand-ins that shape your life

2021/9/8
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Contributor(s): | What are proxies and how do they influence our lives? This film — inspired by case studies in Dr Dylan Mulvin’s new book from Proxies The Cultural Work of Standing In — explores the power of proxies and how they shape our lives. "Underneath the world we know, there is a hidden landscape of carefully constructed stand-ins, models, prototypes. This ferociously original book maps that region and opens up new ways to explain how our technological infrastructures become what they are.” — Fred Turner, Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication, Stanford University; author of The Democratic Surround 🔴 Read more about this research in #LSEResearchForTheWorld: https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/resear...