The imaginary app

Mobile apps promise to deliver (h)appiness to our devices at the touch of a finger or two.

Apps offer gratifyingly immediate access to connection and entertainment.

The array of apps downloadable from the app store may come from the cloud, but they attach themselves firmly to our individual movement from location to location on earth.

In this book, writers, theorists, and artists explore the cultural and technological shifts that have accompanied the emergence of the mobile app.