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| Acknowledgments |
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| About the Author |
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| Introduction |
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The Historical and Conceptual Underpinnings of the Computable Subjectivity |
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Are We and Our World Nothing but Data? |
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Fragmentation, Prediction, and Identity |
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New Normals and New Morals |
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Is the Computable Subjectivity Actually the Problem? If So, What Do We Do? |
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Concluding by Way of Beginning |
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The Co-Constitutive Nature of Design, Design Scholarship, and Design Education |
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10 | (2) |
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12 | (3) |
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1 Historical And Conceptual Roots Of The Computable Subjectivity |
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15 | (24) |
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Introduction: Disrupting the Insurance Industry---"Convenience" and "Freedom" |
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Producing and Looping, or, Biopolitics and Biopower |
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19 | (3) |
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22 | (2) |
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Freedom and Countercultural Technocracy |
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24 | (1) |
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The Selfish System: Cybernetics and Rational Choice Theory |
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Markets as Information Processors: Cybernetics and Economics |
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The Neoliberal Governmentality |
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Conclusion: Foundations and Ramifications |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (4) |
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Introduction: Can You "See" Your Dream Data? |
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Data and World: An Origin Story |
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Computational Instrumentation: Templates and Translations |
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47 | (5) |
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How Computational Instruments Disappear |
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Conclusion: The Great Inversion, or, Operationalism's Legacy |
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59 | (3) |
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62 | (3) |
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3 Prediction And The Stabilization Of Identity |
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Introduction: The Scrambling of Algorithmic Anticipation |
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65 | (5) |
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The Digital Production of Fragmentation and Alienation |
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Ontological Insecurity: One Consequence of Fragmentation and Alienation |
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The Digital Mirror Self: Soothing Ontological Insecurity with Computation |
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75 | (1) |
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The Role of UX in Producing, then Soothing, Ontological Insecurity |
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Consequences: Soft Biopower and the Proscription of Potential |
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Conclusion: Becoming Cyborgs |
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88 | (1) |
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4 The Moral Imperative Of Normality Through Computational Optimization |
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Introduction: The Optimized Professor and the Pressures of Optimization |
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93 | (6) |
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Measurement, Normality, and Morality: Two Origin Stories |
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The Moral Imperative of Self-Optimizing Technologies: The Case of the Amazon Halo |
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Consequences: Anxiety, Superfluity, and the Instrumentalization of Interpersonal Interaction |
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110 | (1) |
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Datafied Superfluity: Bullshit Jobs, Bullshit People, and Teaching from beyond the Grave |
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Conclusion: Fighting for Servitude as if It Were Salvation |
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120 | (1) |
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121 | (6) |
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5 The Questions Of Political Economy And The Role Of Design Education |
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127 | (26) |
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Question 1 The Issue of Political Economy and Chile's Socialist Cybernetics |
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128 | (5) |
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Question 2 The Role of Design Education in Resisting the "Reality" of the Computable Subjectivity |
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Conclusion: Returning to Political Economy and the Limits of the Reformist Approach |
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145 | (2) |
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147 | (6) |
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CONCLUSION: TOWARD A LUDDITE DESIGN EDUCATION |
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153 | (13) |
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The Politics of UX and the Computable Subject as the Ideal Political Subject |
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153 | (2) |
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The Lingering Problem: The Computable Subjectivity and Political Economy |
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155 | (1) |
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The Revolutionary Approach: Luddite Design Education |
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156 | (6) |
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A Provisional Program of Luddite Design Education |
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162 | (2) |
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A Luddite Design Education, Now |
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164 | (1) |
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164 | (2) |
| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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