From object to process. Interface politics of networked computerization
One of the most difficult tasks today is trying to grasp the presence of computing. The almost ubiquitous and diverse forms of networked computers (in all their stationary, mobile, embedded, and autonomous modes) create a nearly overwhelming complexity. To speak of what is here evading and present a...
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| description | One of the most difficult tasks today is trying to grasp the presence of computing. The almost ubiquitous and diverse forms of networked computers (in all their stationary, mobile, embedded, and autonomous modes) create a nearly overwhelming complexity. To speak of what is here evading and present at the same time, the paper proposes to reconsider the concept of interface, its historical roots, and its heuristic advantages for an analysis and critique of the current and especially everyday spread of computerization.
The question of interfaces leads to isolable conditions and processes of conduction, as well as to the complexity of the cooperation formed by them. It opens both an investigative horizon and a mode of analysis, which always asks for further interface levels involved in the phenomenon I am currently investigating. As an example, the paper turns to the displacement of the file with the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and its comeback in 2017 with the “Files” apps.
Both developments are profoundly related to the establishment of computers as permanently networked machines, whereby their functionality, depresentations, and ideology come into focus. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0ff38f679a134e6bb0da95db204850e52022-12-22T04:17:37ZcatUniversitat Oberta de CatalunyaArtnodes1695-59512020-09-012410.7238/a.v0i24.3300From object to process. Interface politics of networked computerizationJan Distelmeyer0University of Applied Sciences Potsdam University of PotsdamOne of the most difficult tasks today is trying to grasp the presence of computing. The almost ubiquitous and diverse forms of networked computers (in all their stationary, mobile, embedded, and autonomous modes) create a nearly overwhelming complexity. To speak of what is here evading and present at the same time, the paper proposes to reconsider the concept of interface, its historical roots, and its heuristic advantages for an analysis and critique of the current and especially everyday spread of computerization. The question of interfaces leads to isolable conditions and processes of conduction, as well as to the complexity of the cooperation formed by them. It opens both an investigative horizon and a mode of analysis, which always asks for further interface levels involved in the phenomenon I am currently investigating. As an example, the paper turns to the displacement of the file with the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and its comeback in 2017 with the “Files” apps. Both developments are profoundly related to the establishment of computers as permanently networked machines, whereby their functionality, depresentations, and ideology come into focus.https://raco.cat/index.php/Artnodes/article/view/373872interface; conduction; network; ideology; depresentation; digital objects |
| spellingShingle | Jan Distelmeyer From object to process. Interface politics of networked computerization Artnodes interface; conduction; network; ideology; depresentation; digital objects |
| title | From object to process. Interface politics of networked computerization |
| title_full | From object to process. Interface politics of networked computerization |
| title_fullStr | From object to process. Interface politics of networked computerization |
| title_full_unstemmed | From object to process. Interface politics of networked computerization |
| title_short | From object to process. Interface politics of networked computerization |
| title_sort | from object to process interface politics of networked computerization |
| topic | interface; conduction; network; ideology; depresentation; digital objects |
| url | https://raco.cat/index.php/Artnodes/article/view/373872 |
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