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Emerging technologies eventually disappear into the atmosphere of everyday life - they become ordinary and enmeshed in ignored infrastructures and patterns of behaviour. This is how Mundania takes form. Based on original research, this book uses the concept of mundania to better understand our relationship with technology.

How can artistic creative practice be combined with ethnological cultural analysis? A process based on practices of art probing is proposed and related to discussions about museum imaginaries, digital cultures and sensory aspects of ethnography. The point of departure for the discussion is the audiovisual performance Possible Worlds.

I discuss and argue for combinations of artistic practice and cultural analysis, for meta-disciplinary and serendipitous endeavours that can entangle art and ethnographic research. These combinations can be understood as practices that are more-than-academic. I define the artistic side of this combinatory work as art probing. Art probes have a double function. First, they can instil inspiration and be possible points of departure for research, and, second, they can be used to communicate scientific concepts and arguments beyond the scope of academic worlds. According to this point of view, artistic and scientific output should be seen as provisional renditions oriented towards different audiences and as part of an extended open-ended art of inquiry. When working with this more-than-academic practice, a number of stakeholders are involved, ranging from academic professionals to art institutions, museums and visitors of art exhibitions, and performances. I will discuss how I understand ethnography as part of this process and in relation to practices of art probing.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: The Mandrake Mode -- 2 Meditation, Magic and Spiritual Regeneration: Spas and the Mass Production of Serenity -- 3 Trick or Treatment: Brokers in Biotech -- 4 Possessed by Enterprise: Values and Value-creation in Mandrake Management -- 5 Catwalking and Coolhunting: The Production of Newness -- 6 Transformers: Hip Hotels and the Cultural Economics of Aura-production -- 7 Spectral Events: Attempts at Pattern Recognition -- 8 It's in the Mix: Configuring Industrial Cool -- 9 A Land of Milk and Money: The Dairy Counter in an Economy of Added Values -- 10 Flexible, Adaptable, Employable: Ethics for a New Labour Market -- Making Sense: An Afterword -- Index.