Technology theorist, design researcher, writer, teacher
What is going on with things? This is a question that has been animating my research for the past few years. It has led to identifying some basic shifts underway in how things are made, when, where, and by whom, and what they are made of. Due to networked connectivity, things can be active and responsive, … Continue reading Surveillance capitalism, by design
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending the excellent PhD defence of Holly Robbins at TU Delft, and afterward participating on a panel on the related theme of “Designing for Legibility of Computational Black Boxes” along with Thomas Binder (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts), Marcel Schouwenaar (The Incredible Machine), Irina … Continue reading Designing for legibility of computational black boxes (The box is not a box)
Today is the day that Changing Things: The Future of Objects in a Digital World is published! This seems like a good moment to reflect on the (long) path to get to this point, as well as to look ahead toward future directions. As a graduate student I became fascinated with philosophy of technology because of … Continue reading Changing Things: Back story and future directions
Graham Harman and object-oriented philosophy I’ve been seeing intriguing references to Graham Harman for a while now, and today after investigating him further I think I’ve become a fan after reading about a handful of blog posts and a book review. He has all kinds of interesting things on his blog, and I particularly enjoyed … Continue reading Graham Harman and object-oriented philosophy
I have decided to move my blog over to here from heatherwiltse.com, because I realized that the iWeb software I use for that site is not the best for publishing a blog. More soon. =)
Heather Wiltse, PhD 