Relating to Things

Design, Technology and the Artificial

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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We relate to things and things relate to us. Emerging technologies do this in ways that are interesting and exciting, but often also inaccessible or invisible. In this open access book, leading design researchers and philosophers respond to issues raised by this situation — inquiring into what it means to live with and relate to things that can actively relate to us, and that relate to each other in ways that do not involve us at all.Case studies include Amazon's Alexa, the Internet of Things, Pokémon Go and Roomba the robot vacuum cleaner. Authors explore everything from the care work undertaken by objects, reciprocal human/machine learning, technological mediation as a form of control, and what it takes to reveal things that tend to be hidden and that often (by design) conceal the ways in which they use us.As a whole, Relating to Things is a collaborative philosophical inquiry into the nature and consequences of contemporary technological things. It is a design inquiry into the current nature of the artificial, and possibilities for how things might be otherwise. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-05-14
Mått160 x 238 x 22 mm
Vikt640 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350124257

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IntroductionHeather Wiltse (Umeå University, Sweden)I: Caring for Things That Care for Us1. Privacy as Care: An Interpersonal Model of Privacy Exemplified by Five Cases in the Internet of ThingsDylan Wittkower (Old Dominion University, USA)2. Attachment to Things, Artifacts, Devices, Commodities: An Inconvenient Ethics of the OrdinaryMichel Puech (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)3. The New Assisted Living: Caring for Alexa Caring for UsDiane Michelfelder (Macalester College, USA)II: Learning from Things That Learn from Us4. Handling Things that Handle Us: Things Get to Know Who We Are and Tie Us Down to Who We WereBruno Gransche (University of Siegen, Germany)5. Can Ethics be Learned? Videogames as an Ethical SandboxFanny Verrax (independent scholar and consultant, France)6. Casting Things as Partners in Design: Toward a More-than-Human Design PracticeElisa Giaccardi (TU Delft, Netherlands)III: Controlling Things That Control Us7. Hostile Design and the Materiality of SurveillanceRobert Rosenberger (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)8. A Tool for the Impact and Ethics of Technology: The Case of Interactive Screens in Public SpacesSteven Dorrestijn (Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands)9. Postphenomenology of Augmented RealityGalit Wellner (Tel Aviv University, Israel)IV: Revealing Things That Reveal Us10. Imagining Things: Unfolding the “of” in Philosophy of Technology, through Object-Oriented OntologyYoni Van Den Eede (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)11. The Disappearing Acts of the Morse Things: A Design Inquiry into the Withdrawal of ThingsRon Wakkary (Simon Fraser University, Canada; TU Eindhoven, Netherlands), Sabrina Hauser (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Doenja Oogjes (Simon Fraser University, Canada)12. Revealing Relations of Fluid AssemblagesHeather Wiltse (Umeå University, Sweden)13. Designing Networks that Reveal ThemselvesHolly Robbins (TU Delft, Netherlands)14. Reflection and CommentaryErik Stolterman (Indiana University, USA)

This is one of the first collections to take seriously our changing relationship with non-human actors, yet in doing so it is also a profoundly human book. As disturbing as it is enlightening, Relating to Things is full of insight and curiosity about what it means to live in an increasingly sentient material world. Essential reading for anybody trying to make sense of the politics of relationality in design and the coming world of active objects.