Episode 8 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities.
Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This episode features the work of professor of philosophy, Sara Goering.
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Episode 8 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities.
Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This episode features the work of professor of philosophy, Sara Goering.
We increasingly interact with the world through the binary, on/off medium of buttons—from keyboards and appliances, to the digital interfaces of phones and tablets; but it didn’t have to be this way. “There is nothing natural or inevitable about buttons or the act of pushing a button. Various constituencies over the years—especially advertisers and manufacturers—have marshalled tremendous resources to make buttons popular and alluring,” Rachel Plotnick, author of Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing.
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Ways of Knowing
Episode 8 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities.
Made by The World According to Sound and The University of Washington. This episode features the work of professor of philosophy, Sara Goering.
