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A similar argument can be made about the form that the interface takes—with little pictures of folders and pages and trash cans. Those analogies are based in physical forms and so we associate the simplicity of the physical folder with that of the digital one. At best, we have faith in the interface that it is an accurate simplification of a more complex system behind it, and at worse, we don’t even recognize the complexity at all.
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― Solving Critical Design Problems: Theory and Practice
― Solving Critical Design Problems: Theory and Practice
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How is the body, including the observing body, becoming a component of new machines, economies, apparatuses, whether social, libidinal, or technological? In what way is subjectivity becoming a precarious condition of interface between rationalized systems of exchange and networks of information?
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― Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
― Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
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