tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14194674.post5586426352658030690..comments2024-03-28T07:47:53.949-04:00Comments on Transforming Grounds: Interaction Research as Societal CritiqueErik Stolterman Bergqvisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10368024740643883412noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14194674.post-14288847196888903602007-09-24T11:23:00.000-04:002007-09-24T11:23:00.000-04:00Hi cctwThanks for your comments. Yes, I am aware o...Hi cctw<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comments. Yes, I am aware of Heidegger and for instance the way it has been used by Andrew Feenberg, which I truly appreciate. Borgmann is one of my personal favorites and I use his ideas a lot. <BR/><BR/>I also know the work by McCarthy and Wright, but am not familiar with Zizek, maybe I have to look into that. My concern is still there however, despite all these references, since they are mostly work by people from outside the field. I would like to see critical research from within our own field resting on the foundation of knowledge that has over time been developed. So, I am still looking :-)<BR/><BR/>ErikAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14194674.post-47095355096516033202007-09-24T00:39:00.000-04:002007-09-24T00:39:00.000-04:00Not quite interaction, and more Heidegger/Merleau-...Not quite interaction, and more Heidegger/Merleau-Ponty than Marcuse, but Hubert Dreyfus' <I>On the Internet</I> [Routledge, 2001].<BR/><BR/>More VR than interaction, and again more Heidegger than Marcuse, but Albert Borgmann, particularly "The Nature of Reality and the Reality of Nature" in Soule and Lease's (at times reactionary) <I>Reinventing Nature</I> [Island Press, 1995].<BR/><BR/>And since in nearly all domains, the mantle of critical theory has passed (or been left to) Slavoj Zizek, perhaps his passing views on cyberspace and fantasy. A quick search on Zizek and interaction yielded this paper (McCarthy and Wright "Putting ‘felt-life’ at the centre of human–computer interaction (HCI)" in <I>Cognition, Technology & Work</I> Vol.7 No.4 (2005)) who make use of (much to Zizek's chagrin I would imagine) this essay by Zizek: "The fantasy in cyberspace" In: Wright E, (eds) <I>The Zizek reader</I> Blackwell, Oxford, 1999.camerontwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12576089029390603417noreply@blogger.com