James Maguire
Biographic Data
| ID | 3737682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Maguire |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Maguire |
| SIGNATURE | MAGUIRE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | IT University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5081-1811 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Digital (mis)trust: Ethnographic Encounters With Computational Forms
Through a series of ethnographic encounters, its contributors describe how (mis)trust is rendered as an issue of concern by various actors as it is problematized, conceptualized, narrated, and designed for. In doing so, the papers analyse the work (mis)trust does in these settings, with a focus on the role of computational thinking within public discourses on democratic elections, the use of computational technologies in establishing bureaucratic…
Industrial Excess: Data Storage, Energy and Utility Planning Before, During and After Digital Industrialisation
Excess is usually understood in research as the point at which materiality gets too much. This article shows instead that materiality is always already excessive. The energy utility workers in our study convey that any product making industry also makes excess. In their view, excess as an energetic form is impossible to eliminate from industrial operations. Excess can be reduced, but complete elimination is only possible if industrial operation d…
Data Echoes: Sound, Evidence, and Acoustic Methods in Energy Landscapes
This paper explores an informal acoustic method developed by a group of industrial geologists working in geothermal energy landscapes in the southwest of Iceland. Through a series of ethnographic descriptions, this paper renders the work these geologists carry out in sonic terms, emphasizing how they use their bodies as sonic detectors in the production of geological evidence. Sound, the paper argues, is what allows geologists to make the intract…
Energy Worlds in Experiment
Energy Worlds in Experiment is an experiment in writing about energy and an exploration of energy infrastructures as experiments. Twenty authors have written collaborative chapters that examine energy politics and practices, from electricity cables and energy monitors to swamps and estuaries. Each chapter proposes a unique format to tell energy worlds differently and to stimulate energy imaginaries: thesis, propositions, interviews, stories, card…
Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis
We are grateful to all the people and institutions that made this book pos sible.The In de pen dent Research Councils of Denmark (funding id 0602-02551b) supported Brit
Digitalizing the State: Data Centres and the Power of Exchange
Big-Tech's data centres have recently emerged as important socio-political figures in the ongoing digitalisation of the Danish state. Locating vast swathes of data in a country renowned for its renewable energy has prompted a series of questions about the nature of the relationship between these two actors. Our ethnographic interest resides in analysing how, and why, Denmark is rapidly becoming Europe's primary US data centre location, and in exp…
Icelandic Resource Landscapes and the State
This paper offers an ethnographic perspective on the relationship between resource landscapes and the state in Iceland during a period of financial experimentation. In particular, it analyses a shift from the production of thermal water for local use to the production of electricity for the global aluminium market. This shift, the paper argues, is not merely a technocratic exercise in further resource extraction, it also indexes some of the tenuo…
The Energy Walk: Infrastructuring the Imagination
The temporal politics of anthropogenic earthquakes: Acceleration, anticipation, and energy extraction in Iceland
This paper is an ethnographic exploration of the volcanic landscapes of Iceland, where the extraction of geothermal energy for the production of aluminum is triggering anthropogenic earthquakes. As the aluminum industry seeks to decarbonize their industrial infrastructure, they are increasingly looking to renewable energy havens, such as Iceland, to supply their expansive energy needs. While this paper is partly about understanding the forms of p…
Diagnostic electrocardiography in epidemiological studies of Chagas' disease: Multicenter evaluation of a standardized method
An electrocardiographic recording method with an associated reading guide, designed for epidemiological studies on Chagas' disease, was tested to assess its diagnostic reproducibility. Six cardiologists from five countries each read 100 electrocardiographic (ECG) tracings, including 30 from chronic chagasic patients, then reread them after an interval of 6 months. The readings were blind, with the tracings numbered randomly for the first reading …
Digitalizing the State: Data Centres and the Power of Exchange
Big-Tech's data centres have recently emerged as important socio-political figures in the ongoing digitalisation of the Danish state. Locating vast swathes of data in a country renowned for its renewable energy has prompted a series of questions about the nature of the relationship between these two actors. Our ethnographic interest resides in analysing how, and why, Denmark is rapidly becoming Europe's primary US data centre location, and in exp…
Energy Worlds in Experiment
Energy Worlds in Experiment is an experiment in writing about energy and an exploration of energy infrastructures as experiments. Twenty authors have written collaborative chapters that examine energy politics and practices, from electricity cables and energy monitors to swamps and estuaries. Each chapter proposes a unique format to tell energy worlds differently and to stimulate energy imaginaries: thesis, propositions, interviews, stories, card…
Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis
We are grateful to all the people and institutions that made this book pos sible.The In de pen dent Research Councils of Denmark (funding id 0602-02551b) supported Brit
The temporal politics of anthropogenic earthquakes: Acceleration, anticipation, and energy extraction in Iceland
This paper is an ethnographic exploration of the volcanic landscapes of Iceland, where the extraction of geothermal energy for the production of aluminum is triggering anthropogenic earthquakes. As the aluminum industry seeks to decarbonize their industrial infrastructure, they are increasingly looking to renewable energy havens, such as Iceland, to supply their expansive energy needs. While this paper is partly about understanding the forms of p…
Digital (mis)trust: Ethnographic Encounters With Computational Forms
Through a series of ethnographic encounters, its contributors describe how (mis)trust is rendered as an issue of concern by various actors as it is problematized, conceptualized, narrated, and designed for. In doing so, the papers analyse the work (mis)trust does in these settings, with a focus on the role of computational thinking within public discourses on democratic elections, the use of computational technologies in establishing bureaucratic…
Diagnostic electrocardiography in epidemiological studies of Chagas' disease: Multicenter evaluation of a standardized method
An electrocardiographic recording method with an associated reading guide, designed for epidemiological studies on Chagas' disease, was tested to assess its diagnostic reproducibility. Six cardiologists from five countries each read 100 electrocardiographic (ECG) tracings, including 30 from chronic chagasic patients, then reread them after an interval of 6 months. The readings were blind, with the tracings numbered randomly for the first reading …
The Energy Walk: Infrastructuring the Imagination
The temporal politics of anthropogenic earthquakes: Acceleration, anticipation, and energy extraction in Iceland
This paper is an ethnographic exploration of the volcanic landscapes of Iceland, where the extraction of geothermal energy for the production of aluminum is triggering anthropogenic earthquakes. As the aluminum industry seeks to decarbonize their industrial infrastructure, they are increasingly looking to renewable energy havens, such as Iceland, to supply their expansive energy needs. While this paper is partly about understanding the forms of p…
Icelandic Resource Landscapes and the State
This paper offers an ethnographic perspective on the relationship between resource landscapes and the state in Iceland during a period of financial experimentation. In particular, it analyses a shift from the production of thermal water for local use to the production of electricity for the global aluminium market. This shift, the paper argues, is not merely a technocratic exercise in further resource extraction, it also indexes some of the tenuo…
Energy Worlds in Experiment
Energy Worlds in Experiment is an experiment in writing about energy and an exploration of energy infrastructures as experiments. Twenty authors have written collaborative chapters that examine energy politics and practices, from electricity cables and energy monitors to swamps and estuaries. Each chapter proposes a unique format to tell energy worlds differently and to stimulate energy imaginaries: thesis, propositions, interviews, stories, card…
Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis
We are grateful to all the people and institutions that made this book pos sible.The In de pen dent Research Councils of Denmark (funding id 0602-02551b) supported Brit
Digitalizing the State: Data Centres and the Power of Exchange
Big-Tech's data centres have recently emerged as important socio-political figures in the ongoing digitalisation of the Danish state. Locating vast swathes of data in a country renowned for its renewable energy has prompted a series of questions about the nature of the relationship between these two actors. Our ethnographic interest resides in analysing how, and why, Denmark is rapidly becoming Europe's primary US data centre location, and in exp…
Industrial Excess: Data Storage, Energy and Utility Planning Before, During and After Digital Industrialisation
Excess is usually understood in research as the point at which materiality gets too much. This article shows instead that materiality is always already excessive. The energy utility workers in our study convey that any product making industry also makes excess. In their view, excess as an energetic form is impossible to eliminate from industrial operations. Excess can be reduced, but complete elimination is only possible if industrial operation d…
Data Echoes: Sound, Evidence, and Acoustic Methods in Energy Landscapes
This paper explores an informal acoustic method developed by a group of industrial geologists working in geothermal energy landscapes in the southwest of Iceland. Through a series of ethnographic descriptions, this paper renders the work these geologists carry out in sonic terms, emphasizing how they use their bodies as sonic detectors in the production of geological evidence. Sound, the paper argues, is what allows geologists to make the intract…
Digital (mis)trust: Ethnographic Encounters With Computational Forms
Through a series of ethnographic encounters, its contributors describe how (mis)trust is rendered as an issue of concern by various actors as it is problematized, conceptualized, narrated, and designed for. In doing so, the papers analyse the work (mis)trust does in these settings, with a focus on the role of computational thinking within public discourses on democratic elections, the use of computational technologies in establishing bureaucratic…
Computer Science (6 works) · Physics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Energy (signal processing (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Economics (2 works)