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Chapter 1 Introduction -- Outline of the book -- Chapter 2 Signs -- The tree and the weathervane -- Peirce's theory of signs -- Icons in architecture -- Chapter 3 Sign-Vehicles -- Icon -- Index -- Symbol -- Ten classes of signs -- First, Second, Third -- Breaking the rules -- The number three -- Chapter 4 Indexical architecture -- A return to the physical -- Signs and facts -- Translating indexical signs to symbols -- Diagrammatic proof -- Chapter 5 Abduction in architecture -- Abduction in the smart city -- Forensic architecture -- Indefinite inference -- Design as abduction -- Abduction versus interpretation -- Chapter 6 Nature semiotics -- Nature's signs -- Pansemiotics -- Geosemiotics -- The posthuman and speculative realism -- Chapter 7 Pragmatism -- Pragmatism and positivism -- Verification -- The power of practice -- Radicalising Peirce

"How do pervasive digital devices - smartphones, iPods, GPS navigation systems, and cameras, among others - influence the way we use spaces? In The Tuning of Place, Richard Coyne argues that these ubiquitous devices and the networks that support them become the means of making incremental adjustments within spaces - of tuning place. Pervasive media help us formulate a sense of place, writes Coyne, through their capacity to introduce small changes, in the same way that tuning a musical instrument invokes the subtle process of recalibration. Places are inhabited spaces, populated by people, their concerns, memories, stories, conversations, encounters, and artifacts. The tuning of place - whereby people use their devices in their interactions with one another - is also a tuning of social relations." "The range of ubiquity is vast - from the familiar phones and handheld devices through RFID tags, smart badges, dynamic signage, microprocessors in cars and kitchen appliances, wearable computing, and prosthetics, to devices still in development. Rather than catalog achievements and predictions, Coyne offers a theoretical framework for discussing pervasive media that can inform developers, designers, and users as they contemplate interventions into the environment. Processes of tuning can lead to consideration of themes highly relevant to pervasive computing: intervention, calibration, wedges, habits, rhythm, tags, taps, tactics, thresholds, aggregation, noise, and interference."--BOOK JACKET

This article focuses on some of the implications of Heidegger's pragmatism for information technology analysis and critique. I survey Heidegger's transformation of Enlightenment notions such as identity, proximity, community, disembodiment, pattern, representation and utopia to the phenomenological concepts of Dasein, care, being‐with, corporality, praxis, disclosure and the not‐yet. Each of these concepts return us to the issue of practice.