standby
Standby: Organizing modes of in|activity
Standby refers to an operating state in which energy continues to flow despite an apparent shutdown, thus allowing for sudden reactivation. This special issue mobilizes the notion of standby to understand its capacities and conditions as a mode of organizing sociomaterial lifeworlds.
Standby as mode of organization
Issue Editors: Laura Kemmer, Annika Kühn, Vanessa Weber and Birke Otto