hi Morlock, On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> The cuteness of interfaces is far from being neutral. Insisting on > it is like retaining pacifiers in adulthood. It's hard to talk with > that thing in your mouth. on top of a momentum of waving hands in air and pointing fingers here and there to the social web (a topic that is way less relevant than many others today, IMHO, but fancy enough for an attention spoof) you have just written the most interesting observation I've read in the past 2 years of text on the topic. Thanks. this position opens up a series of incredibly rich considerations about the past and future of human-machine interaction, plus it can re-center well a discussion, which allow me to say is becoming quite superficial. nowadays we know that to "build an alternative" is necessary to decentralize, but it is also crucial to let newcomers understand the public dimension of the digital. Yet, in most academies, people is too busy teaching how to persuade and captivate people's attention using "media design" techniques of sorts... in a world where advertisement is the main business model, we won't ever get out of this cultural stall: from the participation growth it seems we are rich, but those busy on the cuteness of tr/a(p)ps are the only ones benefitting. ciao -- jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org GPG: B2D9 9376 BFB2 60B7 601F 5B62 F6D3 FBD9 C2B6 8E39 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
