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XPUB Guest seminar with Silvio Lorusso [IRL]<br><br> | XPUB Guest seminar with Silvio Lorusso [IRL] 10:00-13:00<br><br> | ||
<b>On Misconvenience</b><br> | <b>On Misconvenience</b><br> | ||
Can a technology stop serving its users by working *too well*? Or, conversely, can the value of a technology lie in the fact that it is *not* perfectly efficient? During this day, we will focus on the notion of misconvenience, namely, the quality of those solutions that, while allowing to save some time and effort, are indirectly detrimental to the ones who use them. Interrogating together the work of Bernard Stiegler and Ivan Illich, we will form two camps: the camp of "inconvenient convenience" and that of "convenient inconvenience". The two camps will gather various materials, make a case for them and present it to the opposite camp. In this way, we will try to shed light on a fundamental question: when it comes to convenience, whose convenience are we talking about? | Can a technology stop serving its users by working *too well*? Or, conversely, can the value of a technology lie in the fact that it is *not* perfectly efficient? During this day, we will focus on the notion of misconvenience, namely, the quality of those solutions that, while allowing to save some time and effort, are indirectly detrimental to the ones who use them. Interrogating together the work of Bernard Stiegler and Ivan Illich, we will form two camps: the camp of "inconvenient convenience" and that of "convenient inconvenience". The two camps will gather various materials, make a case for them and present it to the opposite camp. In this way, we will try to shed light on a fundamental question: when it comes to convenience, whose convenience are we talking about? | ||
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XPUB Guest seminar with Silvio Lorusso [IRL] 10:00-13:00
On Misconvenience
Can a technology stop serving its users by working *too well*? Or, conversely, can the value of a technology lie in the fact that it is *not* perfectly efficient? During this day, we will focus on the notion of misconvenience, namely, the quality of those solutions that, while allowing to save some time and effort, are indirectly detrimental to the ones who use them. Interrogating together the work of Bernard Stiegler and Ivan Illich, we will form two camps: the camp of "inconvenient convenience" and that of "convenient inconvenience". The two camps will gather various materials, make a case for them and present it to the opposite camp. In this way, we will try to shed light on a fundamental question: when it comes to convenience, whose convenience are we talking about?