Posted by Episode 3 of The Deep Dive is a longer one today, a full 14-minutes as Sophia and Todd don’t just summarise the two decades of blogs, but ask how and why do the deeply technical system design blogs connect with those that focus on the critical world of culture and the humanities.
They are using the journey of the blog to analyse how I put the technology itself under the microscope for humanistic questioning and interrogation. As the tagline of this blog has long stated: fascinated by how people use technology and vice-versa. Every time we introduce a new piece of software, we change the way people work and that, my friends, is a political act.
It flips the script. It’s where the critical distance comes in.
The Deep Dive Ep 3 on Ruth Stalker-Firth’s theory of how design is a political act
It’s not just how we use tech, but how tech uses, or maybe dictates things to us… we sometimes let it shape our lives without really thinking.
It’s a great episode. Check out the YouTube trailer below:
