Relating to Things: Design, Technology and the Artificial - Hardcover

Heather Wiltse

 
9781350124257: Relating to Things: Design, Technology and the Artificial
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1350124257 ISBN 13: 9781350124257
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020

Synopsis

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, 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, 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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About the Author

Heather Wiltse is Associate Professor in Design at the Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University, Sweden.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1350124257
ISBN 13 
9781350124257
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
304
Editor
Heather Wiltse