Existential technology: Wearable computing is not the real issue!

Leonardo

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-25

  Mann, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 34848922212     PISSN: 0024094X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002409403321152239     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. See and the accompanying curatorial essay at
2. Surprisingly, using my approach of self-demotion to confront the lowest level clerks in an establishmeut usually brings me face-to-face with their highest official much faster than trying to approach the official myself (as in Michael Moore's Roger and Me). By demoting myself to a low-level clerk, in my own self-inflicted bureaucracy, I create a situation that the clerks cannot deal with, so they bring me their managers right away. I do not need to write endless unanswered letters and wait for hours on hold. I mirror the organization upon itself to get them to bring me their top official very quickly. S. Manu, "'Reflectionism' and 'Diffusionism': New Tactics for Deconstructing the Video Surveillance Superhighway," Leonardo 31, No. 2,93-102 (1998);
3. Albert Camus, a writer who worked for the French resistance movement against the Germans in World War II and co-edited with Jean-Paul Sartre a newspaper called Combat, also examined civilization's failure to properly address many serious moral issues. See also the many writings by Camus and others on the "Theater of the Absurd."
4. Walter Kaufmann, Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (World Publishing Company, 1956). See also >
5. See, for example, Viktor Frankl, "From Death Camp to Existentialism" (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1959)
6. See for more details on the actual exhibits
7. The concept of Humanistic Property is described in Steve Mann, "Computer Architectures for Protection of Personal Informatic Property," First Monday 5, No. 7 (July 2000);
8. See
9. "Instead of adorning or expanding the body, however, the Telepresence Garment. .. foregrounds the other meanings of the verb 'to wear': To damage, diminish, erode, or consume by long or hard use; to fatigue, weary, or exhaust." Eduardo Kac, "Dialogical Telepresence Art and Net Ecology," in Ken Goldberg, ed., The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000) pp. 180-196;
10. Julia Scher also provides a critical framework in which to understand such concepts as what she calls INTERFACE DISEASE SQUADRONS; MAN TRAP BOOTHS; and QUARANTINE BLOCKS. See
11. My recent exhibit on mass decontamination also looks at similar issues. See
12. See and
13. A smaller wallet-sized version of a similar apparatus is described at