Abstract

Digital geographies are inherently incomplete, as are the sociotechnical processes that underwrite them. From mobile revolutions that have spawned IoT and smart-city initiatives, to machine learning powering intelligent applications and algorithmic systems, the genealogy of the contemporary digital age is fundamentally reshaping and reordering planetary arrangements. Beyond enchantments of the spectacular (orderly, complete, and immanent systems), I call for greater legibility of the everyday (open-ended, incomplete, and continuous ways of sustaining life) in geographical research. In so doing, I trace key threads in the everyday geographies of urban digital infrastructuring, offering a lens that foregrounds social, spatial, political, and nonlinear temporalities in the shaping of technological worlds in flux.