I love this paper from a few years ago about computers and humans intra-acting.
- I love this paper from a few years ago about computers and humans intra-acting.
- We don't use computers, we become-with computers.
- A user only exists in the act of using; the technology only exists in being used.
- They mutually constitute each other, like dance partners who only exist in the dance.
- This is why "owning your context" is so important—it's literally owning who you become.
- "Interaction" assumes agency; what we have now in the era of Big Data is extraction.
- Emotions aren't detected by technology—they're co-created with it.
- The infamous "affective loop": your body responds, the tech interprets, you respond to its response.
- The algorithm doesn't read your mood; it performs it into existence.
- Another reason why who controls the loop controls who you become.