Relating to things : : design, technology and the artificial / / edited by Heather Wiltse.

• TeilnehmendeR: Wiltse, Heather,
• 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.

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Relating to Things That Relate to Us -- Part One Caring for Things that Care for Us -- 1 Privacy as Care in the Internet of Things -- 2 Attachment to Things, Artifacts, Devices, Commodities: An Inconvenient Ethics of the Ordinary -- 3 The New Assisted Living: Caring for Alexa Caring for Us -- Part Two Learning from Things that Learn from Us -- 4 Handling Things That Handle Us: Things Get to Know Who We Are and Tie Us Down to Who We Were

5 Can Ethics Be Learned? Video Games as an Ethical Sandbox -- 6 Casting Things as Partners in Design: Toward a More-than-Human Design Practice -- Part Three Controlling Things that Control Us -- 7 Hostile Design and the Materiality of Surveillance -- 8 A Tool for the Impact and Ethics of Technology: The Case of Interactive Screens in Public Spaces -- 9 Postphenomenology of Augmented Reality -- Part Four Revealing Things that Reveal Us -- 10 Imagining Things: Unfolding the "of" in Philosophy of Technology, through Object-Oriented Ontology

11 The Disappearing Acts of the Morse Things: A Design Inquiry into the Withdrawal of Things -- 12 Revealing Relations of Fluid Assemblages -- 13 Designing Networks That Reveal Themselves -- 14 Reflection and Commentary -- Index -- Imprint