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Living with light Is being ignorant and incompetent all that bad? Spaces within spaces How does ignorance influence uses of light? 1. The new regime of knowledge has installed a gap between ways of knowing 2. Competence bias glosses

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Living with light

Is being ignorant and incompetent all that bad?

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Spaces within spaces

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How does ignorance influence uses of light? 1. The new regime of knowledge has installed a gap between ways of knowing 2. ‘Competence bias’ glosses over how incompetence and ignorance may have both emotional effects and act as social strategies

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Prioritising energy - Maintaining Lightscapes

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New light – new knowledge

  • Materialising morality – We need to think differently
  • White boxing Black boxed light: Ra, kelvin, lumen, ignition time, beam angle, dimmer,

disposal

  • From consumption of energy to production of light

‘you know, even in your body, what the light from a 60 watt bulb is’.

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1…2…3… Failed purchase

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Case 1: Failed Purchase: Bring in the specialist

‘any new technology in relation to human praxis, before it can become transparent and thus fully accommodated, must be ‘embodied’ if it is to be “known” at all’ (Ihde, 2010: 125).

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The knowledge and competence bias

Blackboxing: “the way scientific and technical work is made invisible by its own success. When a machine runs efficiently, when a matter of fact is settled, one need focus only on its inputs and outputs and not on its internal complexity. Thus, paradoxically, the more science and technology succeed, the more opaque and

  • bscure they become” (Latour 1999:304)

An epistemological project of understanding scientific knowledge production and choices made

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James Ferrier - 1854

  • Epistemology: Theory of knowledge
  • Ontology: theory of being
  • Agnoiology: theory of ignorance
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Roy Dilley (2010) on ignorance

  • Ignorance as the absence of knowledge

– Etymology:

  • ignorance: ig + noscere meaning to ‘perceive or apprehend’ by the

senses, No know-how

  • nescience, no + scio meaning to understand, knowing by the mind,

No know-what

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Ignorance beyond the blank slate

  • Looking at processes of

casting doubt on, nullify or suppress knowledge

  • Ignorance is a product of

cultural and political struggles

Proctor R. and Schiebinger L. L. 2008. Agnotology : the making and unmaking of ignorance, Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press.

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Ignorance beyond the blank slate

  • We should not presume that

informants have the same ‘desire for knowledge, and the same aversion to ignorance […] with the result that situations in which ignorance is viewed neutrally—or even positively— have been misunderstood and overlooked’ (High et al. 2012: 1).

  • Knowledge and ignorance are less

cognitive than evaluative terms (Vitebsky 1993:101)

HIGH, C., A. H. KELLY & J. MAIR 2012. Anthropology of ignorance (C. High et al.eds ). New York: Palgrave Macmillian.

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Case 2: Illuminating Christmas LED and energy waste

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The technorant: Technologically ignorant

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Technorant Technophobia Exploration Techno-rant Prosthetic Anismistic Cloak of incompetence

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Technophobia

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Exploration

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The Techno-rant: Prosthetics

The technorant:

  • Going on an emotional rant due to lack of

knowledge of why the technology is not doing what it should be doing

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The Techno-rant: ’Vehicular animism’

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Cloak of Incompetence

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Perspectives

  • A knowledge gap has been introduced with the new understanding
  • f light, between embodied and disembodied knowledge

– Lack of standardisation sustains this gap

  • Ignorance and incompetence are as much evaluative as a cognitive

phenomena.

  • Focus on ignorance allows us to grasp how social life and uses of

energy is also structured around ways of not knowing.

  • Being ignorant is both socially ostracising and a deliberate strategy