NireBryce

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I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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voidmoth
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Hello cohost! I am doing some extremely preliminary literary review for my master's thesis, which basically means snuffling around for interesting things loosely related to my loose ideas. I am interested in philosophical and leftist approaches to HCI and theory around technology, particularly affect theory and feelings in general (think Playing With Feelings), radical politics (think Human Computer Insurrection), as well as generally interesting approaches to think about technology and interaction such as Brett Victor's work.

That's a very broad net because right now I am just looking for things that pique my interest and make me want to narrow down into something more specific. So, I would absolutely love to hear any recommendations for favorite pieces of writing on technology, philosophy, interaction, and such things. <3!



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in reply to @voidmoth's post:

I'm curious about what https://cibcom.org/ is doing but most of their writing seems to be in Spanish.

Relatedly (in spirit, not sure about organization), there is a community of cooperatively managed delivery drivers in Barcelona that is writing their own open source software to do their work. If search engines hadn't gone to the shitter I would have a link for you.

in reply to @voidmoth's post:

I am told that Deleuze can be hard to understand. There is a a good youtube account that make video on certain of the key concept: https://www.youtube.com/@DaveHarrisreDeleuze/videos
This was also useful:https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2013/04/26/topic-for-76-deleuzeguattari-on-what-philosophy-is/
(They have a podcast where they talk about it, but you need to pay for the episode.)
Also, Spinoza! I need to read him one day, everything I hear about his ideas seem fascinating.

Bookmarking this post! I'm doing my comp ling master's right now, but writing a preregistration report for a user study was really fun, and I'm digging reading HCI papers lately. Starting to consider HCI directions for possible PhD studies after I finish my current program :)

Oh, I do remember one study of discourse among leftist uni students in 90s Chile! Not really HCI, but her study of how students coordinate across various political affiliations to create solidarity (or not) were interesting.

Looking back at my notes, if you're not super interested in discourse theory stuff, you can skim pretty hard down to section 4 where she describes the case study and read form there

Oh! And regarding "affect/emotions and tech", I haven't read this yet, but there's a paper from CHI 2023 about how writing helper natural language tech can skew people's opinions:

Also also, one of my coworkers co-authored a neat HCI study at CHI 2023 about trans and non-binary folks' needs in tech that I've been wanting to read:

discourse and pragmatics are really interesting and cool! and all our language models have relatively way less attention put into accounting for that stuff than word-level stuff! I'm eager to take a class on just discourse soonish and learn more theory! :eggbug:

When it comes to philosophy of technology, radical politics and gender I would recommend:

Xenofeminism - Helen Hester
(Radical politics surrounding technology, gender and late Haraway kinship / social organization ideas)

Zeroes + Ones - Sadie Plant
(Deleuze & Guattari influenced history of women and technology)

Testo Junkie - Paul B. Preciado
(A personal favourite, this book is a weird cross between autobiographical account of taking Testosterone and theory about how gender is a form of technology for control)

I would also highly recommend Brian Massumi's work, he has several books about D&G, Spinoza, and Affect that are helpful and easier to understand.

If you haven't read it already, Deleuze's short essay "Postscript on the societies of control" is a really good introduction to his ideas about technology and politics.