Reproduction at the Interface
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370467 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seb Franklin (0000-0001-7671-8842, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 165 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-91 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2024.165.3.63 |
| OpenAlex | W4390939013 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In Mati Diop's film Atlantics (France/Senegal/Belgium, 2019), images of people holding, using, and disposing of cell phones knit together scenes of attenuated social reproduction. In this essay, I take those images as the basis for a theory of interfaces. In so doing, I connect some of the principal concerns of media theory to the social operations-of labor, of social reproduction, and of racialized, gendered, and sexuated valuation-that collectively enact the expanded reproduction of capital. From the perspective of those operations, media technologies such as cell phones become intelligible as elements in a determinate form of society: not only interfaces in themselves but also elements in an expansive, emergent, and (apparently) self-regulating network of interfaces
Art · Biology · Business · Expansive · Physics · Reproduction · Social capital · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Artificial Intelligence · Ecology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |