Zachary Kaiser

Interfaces and Us (eBook, ePUB)

User Experience Design and the Making of the Computable Subject

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We're all familiar with smart TVs making suggestions on our future watching, real-world exercise data being transferred into stats and infographics on our workout apps and turning up our home heating before we start our commute - but how does this world of technological interfaces affect our actions and perceptions of self?When society relies on computer models and their interfaces to explain and predict everything from love to geopolitical conflicts, our own behaviour and choices are artificially changed. Zachary Kaiser explores the harmful social consequences of this idea - balanced against speed and ease for the user - and how design practice and education can respond positively.

- Concepts of freedom vs convenience
- Smart objects and manipulation
- Real world information transformed into data
- Technology's decisions made on our behalf

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350245266
• Artikelnr.: 66292733

Autorenporträt

Zachary Kaiser is Associate Professor of Graphic Design and Experience Architecture at Michigan State University, USA. His research and creative practice examine the politics of technology and the role of design in shaping the parameters of individual, social, and political possibility. His work has been featured in national and international exhibitions, and his writing, on topics ranging from the future of the arts in higher education to dream-reading technologies, appears in both scholarly and popular publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Historical and Conceptual Roots of the
Computable Subjectivity Introduction: Disrupting the Insurance
Industry-"Convenience" and "Freedom" Producing and Looping, or, Biopolitics
and Biopower The Value of Convenience Freedom and Countercultural
Technocracy The Selfish System: Cybernetics and Rational Choice Theory
Markets as Information Processors: Cybernetics and Economics The Neoliberal
Governmentality Conclusion: Foundations and Ramifications 2. Data=World
Introduction: Can You "See" Your Dream Data? Data and World: An Origin
Story Computational Instrumentation: Templates and Translations How
Computational Instruments Disappear Conclusion: The Great Inversion, or,
Operationalism's Legacy 3. Prediction and the Stabilization of Identity
Introduction: Whisper and the Scrambling of Algorithmic Anticipation The
Digital Production of Fragmentation and Alienation Ontological Insecurity:
One Consequence of Fragmentation and Alienation The Digital Mirror Self:
Soothing Ontological Insecurity with Computation The Role of UX in
Producing, then Soothing, Ontological Insecurity Consequences: Soft
Biopower and the Proscription of Potential Conclusion: Becoming Cyborgs 4.
The Moral Imperative of Normality through Computational Optimization
Introduction: The Optimized Professor and the Pressures of Optimization
Measurement, Normativity, and Morality: Two Origin Stories The Moral
Imperative of Self-Optimizing Technologies: The Case of the Amazon Halo
Consequences: Anxiety, Superfluity, and the Instrumentalization of
Interpersonal Interaction Conclusion: Fighting for Servitude as if it Were
Salvation 5. The Questions of Political Economy and the Role of Design
Education Introduction Question 1: The Issue of Political Economy and
Chile's Socialist Cybernetics Question 2: The Role of Design Education in
Resisting the "Reality" of the Computable Subjectivity and the Reformist
Approach Conclusion: Returning to Political Economy and the Limits of the
Reformist Approach to Design Education Conclusion: Towards a Luddite Design
Education The Politics of UX and the Computable Subject as the Ideal
Political Subject The Lingering Problem: The Computable Subjectivity and
Political Economy The Revolutionary Approach: Luddite Design Education A
Provisional Program of Luddite Design Education A Luddite Design Education,
Now Bibliography Index