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Dieter, Michael and Gauthier, David (2019) On the politics of chrono-design : capture, time and the interface. Theory, Culture & Society, 36 (2). pp. 61-87. doi:10.1177/0263276418819053 ISSN 0263-2764.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276418819053
Abstract
This article makes a contribution to interface criticism through the notion of chrono-design: the deliberate shaping of experiences of temporality and time through contemporary software techniques and digital technologies. This notion is articulated through discussions of network optimisation, user experience design, behavioural tracking, Hansen’s work on 21st-century media and Hayles’ framework of cognitive assemblages. In particular, the argument considers how contemporary user interfaces complicate conventional notions of the rational, self-reflexive subject by operating beyond consciousness at vast environmental dimensions and accelerated micro-temporal speeds. These conditions, we argue, provide opportunities for new forms of behavioural suspense and captivation best exemplified through the figure of the trap. The politics and aesthetics of captivation, accordingly, should be considered as central to any expanded ecology of cognition. The article then concludes with a short demonstration of experimental uses of chrono-design methods applied critically to political economies of user tracking and data capture as a prompt for further interdisciplinary applied research in this domain.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Time perception, Browsers (Computer programs) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Theory, Culture & Society | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0263-2764 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 March 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 36 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 61-87 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0263276418819053 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Dieter, M., & Gauthier, D. (2019). On the Politics of Chrono-Design: Capture, Time and the Interface. Theory, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276418819053 Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276418819053 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 January 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 January 2019 | ||||||||
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