chance-seeking as a way of making sense in the time of technological entanglement
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Chance-seeking as a way of making sense in the time of
technological entanglementEmanuele Bardone
Institute of InformaticsTallinn University, Tallinn
Estonia
Transposition of meaning
The main effect of such transposition is the creation of a new way of doing something in the world
As we take the pen or pencil in our hand, you can only sense the pen or the pencil in between our fingers.
But, as soon as we start using it, something mysterious happens.
I want to cycle in the dark (goal)
A bike light is what I need (means)
A bike light is designed to serve the purpose of cycling in the dark
I don’t want to get surprised
I am just implementing a course of action determined beforehand
This seems to disclose something quite interesting about the way in which we
can engage with technological artifacts
I bought a new ipod
New ipods touch are equipped with better quality camera
I can take a picture of page in a book
Tinkering with chance events…
Ends are not given, but they become conceivable in relation to the means that we
come across in due course
We like getting surprised
We don’t plan, we tinker with whatever comes in handy in the form of chance
events
What we do is inseparable from us, our being-in-the-world
It’s an exploratory, individuating, and path-creating process