Wythoff investigates the process by which now-ubiquitous technologies like our phones become integrated into our lives, showing how the â gadgetâ stageâ before devices are widely adoptedâ opens the door for users to co-create these technologies and adapt them toward unexpected ends.
Wythoff investigates the process by which now-ubiquitous technologies like our phones become integrated into our lives, showing how the â gadgetâ stageâ before devices are widely adoptedâ opens the door for users to co-create these technologies and adapt them toward unexpected ends.
Grant Wythoff directs graduate student programs at the Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University. He is cofounder of the cooperative mesh network and digital equity organization Philly Community Wireless and is editor of The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction (Minnesota, 2016).
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Contents
Preface: Technique in the Age of Tech A primer on tÉkhnē, technics, technique, and associated portraits of the way we do things.
1. Sleight of Hand Fashionable urbanites begin carrying wireless telegraphs in their pockets and wonder what to say to each other, 1919. Efforts to remain connected during social distancing measures show the fraying seams of that technoutopian vision, 2020. An introduction to the book’s main themes.
2. The Way We Do Things In war-torn France, Marcel Mauss struggles to complete a treatise on the philosophy of technique, 1941. Virtuoso smartphone gestures flicker on the subway, 2019. Applied scientists propose a humanist technology criticism, 1850s. A report from the high theory of technique.
3. Technically Speaking Sailors, mechanics, and other technicians invent new words for tools and techniques, 1840s. Lexicographers hunt for specimens of those words in use, 1888. Linguists describe the meaning of a word as the company it keeps, 1957. An excavation of the low theory of technicians.
4. The Custody of Automatism Community technologists design intentional, cooperative infrastructures by building local consensus, 2023. Smartphone addicts miss their preinternet brains, 2014. A case for conscientious technique.
Epilogue: Reclaiming Technique A diagnosis concerning technique as the fossil fuel of AI, and two possible futures for refusal.
Preface: Technique in the Age of Tech A primer on tÉkhnē, technics, technique, and associated portraits of the way we do things.
1. Sleight of Hand Fashionable urbanites begin carrying wireless telegraphs in their pockets and wonder what to say to each other, 1919. Efforts to remain connected during social distancing measures show the fraying seams of that technoutopian vision, 2020. An introduction to the book’s main themes.
2. The Way We Do Things In war-torn France, Marcel Mauss struggles to complete a treatise on the philosophy of technique, 1941. Virtuoso smartphone gestures flicker on the subway, 2019. Applied scientists propose a humanist technology criticism, 1850s. A report from the high theory of technique.
3. Technically Speaking Sailors, mechanics, and other technicians invent new words for tools and techniques, 1840s. Lexicographers hunt for specimens of those words in use, 1888. Linguists describe the meaning of a word as the company it keeps, 1957. An excavation of the low theory of technicians.
4. The Custody of Automatism Community technologists design intentional, cooperative infrastructures by building local consensus, 2023. Smartphone addicts miss their preinternet brains, 2014. A case for conscientious technique.
Epilogue: Reclaiming Technique A diagnosis concerning technique as the fossil fuel of AI, and two possible futures for refusal.
Acknowledgments Notes Index
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