UPCOMING: Lecture by Daniel Miller

"How the transportal home creates care transcending distance"

This lecture argues that the smartphone is not just a device which we use but has become a place within which we live. Often when we appear to be sitting in one place, perhaps with other people, we have actually gone back to our smartphone home where we are busy being entertained, communicating with other people or working. We use the term The Transportal Home to describe this, because as well as being a home it is also a place from which we can portal to other people’s smartphone homes. One effect of this development has become the possibility of Care Transcending Distance. We use the smartphone to create regimes of care, for example, WhatsApp groups to organise the care of frail parents. This transcends distance since it is similar whether the parent is living in the same town or another country. The rise of Covid-19 made this feature of care transcending distance through the screen a global phenomenon. As time goes on we gain a better sense of both the new possibilities but also the limitations of the transportal home as care transcending distance.

Date: May 7, 2021

Time: 14:00 - 15:30

Online via Zoom: https://kadk.zoom.us/j/61400134965

Price: Free