The User Condition, Silvio Lorusso 2020
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An Essay on Computer Agency and Behavior. Silvio Lorusso, 2021
The User Condition: Computer Agency and Behavior by Silvio Lorusso v. 1.0, Updated: 12 February 2021 What are the conditions for a computer user to gain agency, defined here as the ability to evade automatisms? What is the user’s horizon of autonomy within a built world made of software programmed by somebody else, when its logic is made inaccessible in the name of convenience? “To know the world one must construct it.” Cesare Pavese, quoted by Alan Kay in 1972 A World of Things As humans, when we are born we are thrown into a world. This world is shaped by things made by other humans before u
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