FCJ-218 Train Ticket Sharing: Alternative Forms of Computing in the City
Who exactly defines the internal flows of the city, and what happens when this 'flow' is rendered bottom-up? Rather than exploring the ways in which the digital affects the organisation of the city, in this paper, I aim to show how certain smart systems of coordination – based on a non-dig...
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| description | Who exactly defines the internal flows of the city, and what happens when this 'flow' is rendered bottom-up? Rather than exploring the ways in which the digital affects the organisation of the city, in this paper, I aim to show how certain smart systems of coordination – based on a non-digital 'smartness' – exist in parallel to the increasingly digital smart city today. Various forms of improvised coordination and human-led calculation are an integral part of the smartness of a city and must not be overlooked. Drawing on ethnography of train ticket sharing networks in Germany, this paper explores the assemblages of human and non-human, digital and analogue actors that can attach themselves to an existent system, acting as 'parasitic infrastructure'. Understanding how these parasitic infrastructures emerge highlights how systems of calculation and computation exist beyond just the digital. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5cbb725937d0412b9bad6c1a144ad2ea2022-12-21T20:08:35ZengOpen Humanities PressFibreculture Journal1449-14431449-14432017-06-012911512810.15307/fcj.29.218.2017FCJ-218 Train Ticket Sharing: Alternative Forms of Computing in the CityPaula Bialski0Leuphana University, LüneburgWho exactly defines the internal flows of the city, and what happens when this 'flow' is rendered bottom-up? Rather than exploring the ways in which the digital affects the organisation of the city, in this paper, I aim to show how certain smart systems of coordination – based on a non-digital 'smartness' – exist in parallel to the increasingly digital smart city today. Various forms of improvised coordination and human-led calculation are an integral part of the smartness of a city and must not be overlooked. Drawing on ethnography of train ticket sharing networks in Germany, this paper explores the assemblages of human and non-human, digital and analogue actors that can attach themselves to an existent system, acting as 'parasitic infrastructure'. Understanding how these parasitic infrastructures emerge highlights how systems of calculation and computation exist beyond just the digital.http://twentynine.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-218-train-ticket-sharing-alternative-forms-of-computing-in-the-city/infrastructuresmart cities |
| spellingShingle | Paula Bialski FCJ-218 Train Ticket Sharing: Alternative Forms of Computing in the City Fibreculture Journal infrastructure smart cities |
| title | FCJ-218 Train Ticket Sharing: Alternative Forms of Computing in the City |
| title_full | FCJ-218 Train Ticket Sharing: Alternative Forms of Computing in the City |
| title_fullStr | FCJ-218 Train Ticket Sharing: Alternative Forms of Computing in the City |
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| title_short | FCJ-218 Train Ticket Sharing: Alternative Forms of Computing in the City |
| title_sort | fcj 218 train ticket sharing alternative forms of computing in the city |
| topic | infrastructure smart cities |
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