Interfaces and Us : User Experience Design and the Making of the Computable Subject /: User Experience Design and the Making of the Computable Subject. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Zachary Kaiser.
• Authors: Kaiser, Zachary
• Contents: AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Historical and Conceptual Roots of the Computable SubjectivityIntroduction: Disrupting the Insurance Industry-'Convenience' and 'Freedom'Producing and Looping, or, Biopolitics and BiopowerThe Value of ConvenienceFreedom and Countercultural TechnocracyThe Selfish System: Cybernetics and Rational Choice TheoryMarkets as Information Processors: Cybernetics and EconomicsThe Neoliberal GovernmentalityConclusion: Foundations and Ramifications2. Data=WorldIntroduction: Can You 'See' Your Dream Data?Data and World: An Origin StoryComputational Instrumentation: Templates and TranslationsHow Computational Instruments DisappearConclusion: The Great Inversion, or, Operationalism's Legacy3. Prediction and the Stabilization of IdentityIntroduction: Whisper and the Scrambling of Algorithmic AnticipationThe Digital Production of Fragmentation and AlienationOntological Insecurity: One Consequence of Fragmentation and AlienationThe Digital Mirror Self: Soothing Ontological Insecurity with ComputationThe Role of UX in Producing, then Soothing, Ontological InsecurityConsequences: Soft Biopower and the Proscription of PotentialConclusion: Becoming Cyborgs4. The Moral Imperative of Normality through Computational OptimizationIntroduction: The Optimized Professor and the Pressures of OptimizationMeasurement, Normativity, and Morality: Two Origin StoriesThe Moral Imperative of Self-Optimizing Technologies: The Case of the Amazon HaloConsequences: Anxiety, Superfluity, and the Instrumentalization of Interpersonal InteractionConclusion: Fighting for Servitude as if it Were Salvation5. The Questions of Political Economy and the Role of Design EducationIntroductionQuestion 1: The Issue of Political Economy and Chile's Socialist CyberneticsQuestion 2: The Role of Design Education in Resisting the 'Reality' of the Computable Subjectivity and the Reformist ApproachConclusion: Returning to Political Economy and the Limits of the Reformist Approach to Design EducationConclusion: Towards a Luddite Design EducationThe Politics of UX and the Computable Subject as the Ideal Political SubjectThe Lingering Problem: The Computable Subjectivity and Political EconomyThe Revolutionary Approach: Luddite Design EducationA Provisional Program of Luddite Design EducationA Luddite Design Education, NowBibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: Graphic design; Ethics & moral philosophy; Computers -- Digital Media -- Graphics Applications; Design -- Graphic Arts -- General; Computers -- User Interfaces; Web graphics & design
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350245266; 1350245267
• Related ISBNs: 9781350245242
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