In this, intelligence is objectified in the permutations of action, interaction, calculation, visualization, interpretation, and power that arrange this arrangement. As we see, the Interface layer is not only the prism through which the User sees and accesses the other layers of The Stack; it is also the membrane throughout which the other layers, the Cloud layer in particular, observe and access the User.
User Layer
- Michel Foucault and Michel Senellart, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Colle ge de France,̀
1978 – 79 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
- Peter Watts, “ The Things, ” Clarkesworld Magazine, no. 40 (January 2010), http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts\_01\_10/.
- “ The high road to thinking no longer passes through a deepening of human cognition, but rather through a becoming inhuman of cognition, a migration of cognition out into the emerging planetary technosentience reservoir, into dehumanized landscapes, emptied spaces where human culture will be dissolved. Just as the capitalist urbanization of labour abstracted it in a parallel escalation with technical machines, so will intelligence be transplanted into the purring data zones of new software worlds in order to be abstracted from an increasingly obsolescent anthropoid particularity. ” Nick Land, “ Circuitries, ” Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy, no. 4 (October 1992): 217 – 235.
- Benedict Singleton, “ On Craft and Being Crafty ” (Ph.D. dissertation, Northumbria University,
2014).
- David A. Mindell, Digital Apollo Human and Machine in Spaceflight (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
2008).
- In this regard, Alphonso Cuaron ’ s film Gravity (2013) can be read as a very liberal adaptation of Sloterdijk ’ s Spheres trilogy.
- Singleton, “ On Craft and Being Crafty. ”
- See the discussion of Wilfrid Sellars in Ray Brassier, “ Nominalism, Naturalism, and Materialism, ” and Jon Cogburn, “ Ray Brassier on Sellars (hat Tip Leon Niemoczynski), ” New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science (blog), June 13, 2013, http://www.newappsblog.com/2013/06/ ray-brassier-on-sellars-hat-tip-leon-niemoczynsk.html.
- Use case scenarios are translated into functional requirements for software and hardware systems according to the demands of informal user-centered design methods, often according to formal systems like UML (Unified Modeling Language) or IBM ’ s Rational.
- Alan Cooper helped pioneer the use of use case personas for Internet-era GUI design in his The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (Carmel, Indiana: SAMS Publishing, 1998).
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