![]() Standards and infrastructures, Mulvin argues, shape and distort the possibilities of representation, the meaning of difference, and the levers of change and social justice. Each case maps the ways standards and infrastructure rely on prototypical ideas of whiteness, able-bodiedness, and purity to control and contain the messiness of reality. He tells the history of technology through the labor and communal practices of, among others, the people who clean kilograms to make the metric system run, the women who pose as test images, and the actors who embody disease and disability for medical students. Drawing on archival research, he investigates some of the basic building-blocks of our shared infrastructures. Acrylic is a local DNS proxy for Windows which improves the performance of your computer by caching the responses coming from your DNS servers and helps you. Mulvin explores the ways technologies, standards, and infrastructures inescapably reflect the cultural milieus of their bureaucratic homes. These “proxies” carry specific values, even as they disappear from view. Climate proxies such as pollen, ocean-sediment cores, lake-level reconstructions, glacial moraines, and terrestrial and ice-borehole data provide valuable. View sites like Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter without being inconvenienced by a dictatorial regime, school filters, and work rules. In Proxies, Dylan Mulvin examines how we arrive at those standards, asking, “To whom and to what do we delegate the power to stand in for the world?” Mulvin shows how those with the power to design technology, in the very moment of design, are allowed to imagine who is included-and who is excluded-in the future.įor designers of technology, some bits of the world end up standing in for other bits, standards with which they build and calibrate. is a USA Web Proxy that runs on an server in the United States, this American proxy allows for the most responsive, and secure browsing experience available. Our world is built on an array of standards we are compelled to share. The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. How those with the power to design technology, in the very moment of design, are allowed to imagine who is included-and who is excluded-in the future. ![]()
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