From Models to Mirror Worlds

Q1 Social Sciences

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI:10.1215/17432197-9964773

Amelyn Ng

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Abstract

Abstract:This essay contemplates the media histories and politics of the digital twin: an accurate three-dimensional model designed to offer data-based simulation, predictive capability, and remote control over a material entity. Currently being developed across the spheres of industry, design, and “smart city” governance, digital twins are “digital-physical” databases purporting not only to represent the appearance of an object but also to capture or simulate all changes to its physical and informatic state, down to the bolt or data point. What are the media histories and stakes of a real-time digital simulation of the world? What of the desire to imitate the physical world in fully machine-readable form? Through three episodes that contribute to the technological imaginary of the twin—the digital factory, the “smart” building model, and the 3D “dashboard” city—it shows how contemporary simulations do not simply reflect reality or create fictional ones but are committed to remaking reality over and over again—each time with greater efficiency, oversight, and predictability.

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从模型到镜像世界

摘要:本文思考了数字孪生的媒体历史和政治:一种精确的三维模型，旨在提供基于数据的模拟、预测能力和对物质实体的远程控制。目前正在工业、设计和“智慧城市”治理领域发展，数字孪生是“数字物理”数据库，旨在不仅代表对象的外观，还捕获或模拟其物理和信息状态的所有变化，直至螺栓或数据点。实时数字模拟世界的媒体历史和利害关系是什么?以完全机器可读的形式模仿物理世界的愿望是什么?通过三集对双胞胎的技术想象——数字工厂、“智能”建筑模型和3D“仪表盘”城市——做出贡献，它展示了当代模拟如何不仅仅反映现实或创造虚构的现实，而是致力于一次又一次地重塑现实——每一次都具有更高的效率、监督和可预测性。

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Cultural Politics Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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1.20

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期刊介绍： Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and effects of contemporary culture and politics. Cultural Politics explores precisely what is cultural about politics and what is political about culture. Publishing across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, the journal welcomes articles from different political positions, cultural approaches, and geographical locations. Cultural Politics publishes work that analyzes how cultural identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked, characterized, examined, and resolved. In so doing, the journal supports the innovative study of established, embryonic, marginalized, or unexplored regions of cultural politics. Cultural Politics, while embodying the interdisciplinary coverage and discursive critical spirit of contemporary cultural studies, emphasizes how cultural theories and practices intersect with and elucidate analyses of political power. The journal invites articles on representation and visual culture; modernism and postmodernism; media, film, and communications; popular and elite art forms; the politics of production and consumption; language; ethics and religion; desire and psychoanalysis; art and aesthetics; the culture industry; technologies; academics and the academy; cities, architecture, and the spatial; global capitalism; Marxism; value and ideology; the military, weaponry, and war; power, authority, and institutions; global governance and democracy; political parties and social movements; human rights; community and cosmopolitanism; transnational activism and change; the global public sphere; the body; identity and performance; heterosexual, transsexual, lesbian, and gay sexualities; race, blackness, whiteness, and ethnicity; the social inequalities of the global and the local; patriarchy, feminism, and gender studies; postcolonialism; and political activism.

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