1. 1 This paper began as a hyperbolic conversation about gastroporn at MIT's Media Lab in Bostonn A urry of e-mails followed, but the paper was written in a series of co-present moments in the U.S. and Irelandd Of course, this paper would not have been possible without the support of our respective institutions and colleagues, both local and digitally diasporic, and we thank them all. In particular, we thank Scott Mainwaring, Julian Orr, and Diane Bell for their close readings and insightful comments. We are also grateful to a number of researchers around the world working on their own smart homes, and in particular want to thank Thad Starner (Georgia Tech) and Michael Lye (Rhode Island School of Design) for their prompt responses to requests for additional information and helpful references. We thank Heinrich Schwartz (MIT) for pointing out to us Grete Schtte-Lihotzky's Frankfurte Kche. We also thank Darra Goldstein for her initial encouragement and continuing interest. Jofish would like to thank Julie Fresina for introducing him to Glass Bottom Boat and her ongoing support of La Cantina. Jofish's research is sponsored by the MIT Media Lab's Counter Intelligence Special Interest Group.
2. 2 Frank Tashlin, Glass Bottom Boat (MGM, 1966).
3. 3 Mark Weiser once remarked that in the future, "we must dwell with computers, not just interact with them . Dwelling with computers means that they have their place, and we ours, and we co-exist comfortably." See Mark Weiser, "{Open House}" Interactive Telecommunications Program Review, 2.0., 1996. http://www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~review/, 23 April 2001.
4. 4 This notion of excavation owes much to Foucault, to cultural studies (specifically around notions of geography and place), and to recent methodological interventions in anthropology. See Michel Foucault, The Archaelogy of Knowledge (New York: Harper and Row, 1972). In particular, we are drawing on Marcus's injunction to "follow the object." See
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