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Dive into the intricate interplay between humans and technology, reflecting on moments of depth over fleeting timelines. From Aristotle's Time to modern innovations, discover how our relations with the world are shaped by the products we use.
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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