• “If we can learn to stop thinking of our lives as a line corresponding to Aristotle’s Time, treasuring our time instead for its deepest moments, each in turn, then waiting eight years at your beloved’s dinner table no longer seems such a strange and laughable obsession but rather (as I would discover much later) assumes the reality of 1,593 happy nights at Füsun’s dinner table.”

• The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk

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• Askew Clock, M&Co, Tibor Kalman, 1998

Technology and Behaviors &The Behaviors of Technology

Week 7

Peter-Paul Verbeek

• When things are used, people take up a relation to the world that these things, thanks to their “handiness,” co-shape.

• In this sense…human-world relations [are] … mediated by … products.

Verbeek, What Things Do, 211.

• on hybrid Intentionality: “These mediated experiences are not entirely human.” Verbeek, Moralizing Technology, 50.

Drawing, "Poster Design: "Hello--the Telephone at your Service," (for the General Post Office, England)", 1937

Edward McKnight Kauffer

“telephone + mythology”

“critical design + telephone”

Museum of InnocenceIstanbul

“Ok, Glass”Gary Shteyngart

"Interzone", Didier Faustino, 2011

Before I leave, Aray and I have a Google "hangout." We essentially swap identities. I see what she sees through her Glass, which is me. She sees what I see through my Glass, which is her. We bring our faces closer, as if approaching a mirror, but the feeling is more akin to being trapped in an early Spike Jonze movie or thrust into an unholy Vulcan mind meld.