Interface

Interface / Branden Hookway.

In this book, Branden Hookway considers the interface not as technology but as a form of relationship with technology. The interface, Hookway proposes, is at once ubiquitous and hidden from view. It is both the bottleneck through which our relationship to technology must pass and a productive encoun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hookway, Branden (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Technology > Philosophy.
Interfaces (Physical sciences)
Human-machine systems > Philosophy.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Technology > Philosophy
Mensch-Maschine-System
Benutzeroberfläche
Technikphilosophie
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Table of Contents:
  • The subject of the interface
  • The interface as form of relation
  • Between faces and facing between
  • The interface and the surface
  • Toward a theory of the interface
  • Janus and Jupiter
  • Control and power
  • The interface and the apparatus
  • The interface and the game
  • The interface and the machine
  • Separation and augmentation
  • Mimicry in the game and the interface
  • The forming of the interface
  • The interface as that which defines the fluid
  • Turbulence and control
  • The exacting of turbulence
  • The demons on the threshold
  • Theories of the vortex
  • Information and entropy
  • Governance and reciprocity
  • The interface and teleology
  • The turbine as superimposition of fluid and machine
  • The vertiginous moment of interface
  • The augmentation of the interface
  • A genius of augmentation
  • The tacit knowing of the interface
  • Singularity
  • Symbiosis
  • System
  • Positioning.

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