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Loco-motion
14 Theses and 21 Ghosts for Locative and Mobile Media
Andrew Murphie
University of New South Wales, Australia
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Mobile and locative media are now at the core of things. This is an unstable core.
It’s this instability that I’m interested in today. I’m not trying to “pin down”
mobile and locative media. Rather, I’m interested in how what I’m calling “loco-
motion” propels an ongoing variation in living and technical systems. This has
implications for thinking about media, but also for much else. I’m also interested
in loco-mobile media as inter-temporal. By this I don’t mean that we have lots of
modes of living available to us, that we can switch between. Rather I’m
suggesting that the switching itself is becoming our prime mode of living, not
only with mobile phones, or locative media, but all media events, for example
VJing.
1 – If ‘a body coincides with its own variation’ (Massumi) then mobile media
coincide with their own variation
2 – Location is Mobile
7 – Mobility is often immobile, if immobile intensity. However, it’s also true that
mobility creates mobility.
1 – Location itself
3 – that which remains hidden .. as Derrida once wrote, “The hidden theme is the
4 – Cognitive Capital
7 – down time
8 – possessions
10 – Animal Spirits
13 – Devas (that is, new forces of production that we might have to talk nicely to)
17 – forgotten networks
21 – Escape