Relating to things : : design, technology and the artificial / / edited by Heather Wiltse.
"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 Relating to Things, leading design researchers and philosophers respond to issues raised by this situation - inquiring into what it...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London [England] : : Bloomsbury Visual Arts,, 2020. [London, England] : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 pages). |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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| Summary: | "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 Relating to Things, 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, Pokm̌on 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, the book 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."-- |
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| ISBN: | 1350124281 1350124265 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Heather Wiltse. |