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“If we can learn to stop thinking of our lives as a line corresponding to Aristotle’s Time, treasuring our time instead for its deepest moments, each in turn, then waiting eight years at your beloved’s dinner table no longer seems such a strange and laughable obsession but rather (as I would discover much later) assumes the reality of 1,593 happy nights at Füsun’s dinner table.” • The Museum of Innocence, OrhanPamuk • Askew Clock, M&Co, TiborKalman, 1998
Technology and Behaviors &The Behaviors of Technology Week 7
Peter-Paul Verbeek • When things are used, people take up a relation to the world that these things, thanks to their “handiness,”co-shape. • In this sense…human-world relations [are] … mediated by … products. Verbeek, What Things Do, 211. • on hybrid Intentionality: “These mediated experiences are not entirely human.”Verbeek, Moralizing Technology, 50.
Drawing, "Poster Design: "Hello--the Telephone at your Service," (for the General Post Office, England)", 1937 Edward McKnight Kauffer
“Ok, Glass”Gary Shteyngart Before I leave, Aray and I have a Google "hangout." We essentially swap identities. I see what she sees through her Glass, which is me. She sees what I see through my Glass, which is her. We bring our faces closer, as if approaching a mirror, but the feeling is more akin to being trapped in an early Spike Jonze movie or thrust into an unholy Vulcan mind meld. "Interzone", Didier Faustino, 2011