Precision Targets: GPS and the Militarization of Everyday Life
2013
This article explores the militarization of everyday life through the emergence of a dual-use technology, the Global Positioning System (GPS), in the 1990s and first decade of the twenty-first century. It was launched in April 2010 as a Web-based multimedia piece funded by a Digital Innovation Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. During the fellowship year and for several years afterward, author Caren Kaplan worked with programmer/designer Erik Loyer to produce a piece that would address the multiple social and political valences of GPS in a graphically dramatic but academically substantial manner. Ezra Claytan Daniels provided the artwork that illustrates Erik Loyer’s innovative digital “cube” design. Loyer and Kaplan developed the six storylines for the piece, and Kaplan wrote the text (see www.precisiontargets.com). Cet article explore la militarisation de la vie quotidienne entrainee par l’emergence dans la periode 1990-2010 d’une technologie a double usage, le Systeme de localisation mondiale (GPS). En avril 2010 a eu lieu le lancement en ligne d’une piece multimedia subventionnee par un « Digital Innovation Fellowship » (Bourse d’innovation numerique) provenant de l’American Council of Learned Societies (Conseil americain des societes savantes). Pendant l’annee de la bourse et plusieurs annees ulterieures, l’auteure Caren Kaplan a collabore avec le programmeur/concepteur Erik Loyer a la realisation d’une piece traitant des multiples variables sociales et politiques du GPS d’une maniere academique tout en comportant des representations graphiques dramatiques. Ezra Claytan Daniels a cree l’art quinillustre le cube numerique innovateur concu par Erik Loyer. D’autre part, Loyer et Kaplan ont developpe les six intrigues pour la piece et Kaplan a redige le texte (www.precisiontargets.com).
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