Through these struggles and obvious flaws (which were never separate from the system in the first place), the false narrative and its violent ideology becomes more and more apparent. It is the sight of human beings, becoming visible in this vast anti-humanist system, which gives moments of clarity.

Hyper-fragmentation leading to hyper-exploitation only worked because of previous fragmentative groundwork.

Turing Complete User

“Being a User is the last reminder that there is, whether visible or not, a computer, a programmed system you use.”(Lialina, 2012)

General Purpose Hype

“There is nothing one user can do, that another can’t given enough time and respect. Computer Users are Turing Complete.”(Lialina, 2012)

“This psychic turn – that is, the turn to psychopolitics – also connects with the mode of operation of contemporary capitalism. Now, immaterial and non-physical forms of production are what determine the course of capitalism. What gets produced are not material objects, but immaterial ones – for instance, information and programs.”(Han, 2017)

“To make sense of the world around us, it had to be translated, flattened. Now the world fits in our pocket. [...] Map projections inevitably produce distortions.”(Niquille, 2018)

Within this realm of human computation the whole automation discourse with all its ideologies and socio-political implications of programmable addressable humans is reduced to one single line of code.

Technology’s inherent instability and moments of breakdown lead to an assemblage of work, not only hidden behind the interface, but also in front of them. Humans encompass technology, which in return becomes a conversation. A conversation between human beings, where agency prevails. After all, we are “Turing Complete Users.”

Technology's Intrinsic Values

“Technology cannot be understood outside of its social practice, since the materiality of technology is shaped by practices and becomes part of these while simultaneously shaping the practices themselves.”
(Bjorn and Osterlund, 2015)

Sociomateriality

The shininess of technological artefacts, is not only a mere reflection reflecting its creator or design process, but it is a diffraction which emerges through the performance of its labour, reflecting its interference, revealing the different characteristics of the given socio-political entanglement.

Permanent Transition

Ghost workers become ghost spaces and ephemeral spaces become ephemeral workers. Just like the work within automation’s asymmetry, space is fragmented, off-shored, off sight and automatically generated.

Architectures of Participation

Automation’s ideology slips into every part of life. It is the collapse of space, the permanent transition, which is dictated by the platform. Every computational device extracts and modifies the surrounding human to serve the automation’s profit margin and future prognosis of it.

Rather than embracing the situated knowledge of the future user, the design process enforces an objective knowledge as standardisation. Through design, bodies are situated by computation. And with the emergence of delivery robots, housework robots, and highly advertised advanced robotics being remote controlled by workers, humans are situated through technology. All technologies are situated humans.