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Desire and technology in the workplace

Exploration, reification & transgression

IML 501 | Laurel

Felt

|

September 30, 2010 | Slide2

Computer as MetaphorSlide3

Culture ClashSlide4

Culture ClashSlide5

Language

"the language they used strongly influenced the kinds of things they could produce" (Stone, p. 103) ...

"Rather, it was an element within a system, a building block in an associated group of elements that, taken together, represented a complete philosophy of life" (Stone,

p

. 105).

Discourse surferSlide6

Control

"Would quiet anarchy have prevailed for a longer time, or, given the possibility of a more gradual evolution toward more structured social order, would it perhaps have prevailed forever? Perhaps the future of electronic virtual communities would have been quite different" (Stone,

p

. 118). Slide7

Cybersex, sexuality & gender

"Would that we could all log out out of our oppressions or our unpleasant social situations" (Stone, p. 120)Slide8

Research

“innovation, taking risks, doing new things" vs. “duplication, slight changes on an already accepted idea, but finding out how to duplicate their successes better and cheaper" (Stone,

p

. 133)Slide9

Games

Where’s the fun?Bring in the dramaSlide10

Interactivity

Lippmann's 5 tenets: mutual interruptibility

, graceful degradation, limited look-ahead, no-default, the impression of an infinite database (Stone, pp. 10-11)

Is perspective implied in this concept?

contrast this with Van

Doren's

viewpoint "Encyclopedias don't present

viewpoints

. Encyclopedias present

truth

" (cited in Stone,

p

. 136). Slide11

Presence

"Central to the construction of agents was the idea of

presence

. What, exactly, was it about a representation that gave it the illusion of personal force, of a living being? And conversely, what did it take to convince a person by means of a representation of a place that they were actually present

in

that place?" (Stone,

p

. 139)

”…he's real, but he's not live" (Laurel, cited in Stone,

p

. 145)

"...question the structure of meaning production by which we recognize each other as human" (Stone,

p

. 173). Slide12

Multiplicity

Haraway's Coyote's Sisters:

Refuse closure; insist upon situation; and seek multiplicity (cited in Stone,

p

. 30)

"... the

technosocial

, the social mode of the computer nets, evokes unruly multiplicity as an integral part of social identity" (Stone,

p

. 42)

multiplicity as resistance

SARAH JONES, (self-invention, 01:20)Slide13

Creatures

"Cyborgs

are boundary creatures, not only human/machine but creatures of cultural interstice as well" (Stone,

p

. 178)

Immortality

“

Lestat

grapples continually with his vampire nature, trying to thrash out workable ethics in all the different worlds he inhabits, each of which he inhabits only partially” (Stone,

p

. 179)

Unconscious assumption of Other, reclaiming

the bodySlide14

"We are as gods and might as well get good at it"

(first line of

CommuniTree's

first conference prospectus, cited in Stone,

p

. 110). Slide15

Stakes

"How is it that the very young, the very talented, don't perceive the incredible power for change that has fallen to them by default -- and the hideous consequence of failing to grasp that weapon when it's offered?"

(Stone,

p

. 164)

"How very like the ancient symbol-cluster of the Quest that underlies so many of our culture's heavily gendered, xenophobic stories of transcendence, conquest, and victory" (Stone,

p

. 164).Slide16

Stakes

"We are no longer unproblematically secure within the nest of our location technologies, whose function for us (as opposed to for our political apparatus) is to constantly reassure us that we are without question ourselves, singular, bounded, conscious, rational; the end product of hundreds of years of societal evolution in complex dialogue with technology as Other and with gender as an

othering

machine" (Stone,

p

. 182).