AREAS / MODULES
Include in each module: readings, discussions, video demos of key points / theorizing …
1. HISTORY [of the tech / catchy title?]
⁃ go back at least to Englebart & early patents/ideas & NATO dox
⁃ 1990s into now, incl. vocab defining dox re VR / AR / MR
⁃ [here or where?] "critical VR theory"? white body supremacy / history of hegemonic gaze (matrix of domination) / presumed white euro male POV / Ux … How deeply embedded is it? How structural / integral to the whole thing?
2. REALITY [real/virtual … catchy title?]
⁃ embodiments - different not less than or simulated or virtual
⁃ translation / translating space
⁃ what does mixed mean?
⁃ POV inside space, subjected to it vs outside subject looking at & manipulating object
⁃ dominance of the visual: subject-object … seer-seen … For humans, is seeing believing?
⁃ experience of self and the world: how does tech always shape that interface?
3. EDUCATION ["Creating Space"?]
⁃ training vs other ideas of education [training = banking model; Chomsky: training citizens / control … no questions]
⁃ ed as creating space for connection = vulnerability / hospitality
⁃ What are the strategies for facilitating such connectivity with HL in the classroom and agency … liberation (HL can create an isolated world / isolation, and can diminish the agency of the learner, and limiting access [re both disability and economic access])
⁃ How to use existing tech like HL with the above educational goals in mind? [how dialectically / interactively / relationally … perversely … that can speak to education as connection, liberation,
⁃ here to learn together, "heterodidacticism" - Freire, Tompkins, Hare and Setiya
⁃ learning to raise a real question / to question = vulnerability
⁃ praxis (h.lab principles; Friere)
⁃ individual vs collaborative
⁃ ritual
⁃ HL is all about creating spaces … opportunity? missed opportunity?
⁃ in humanities / education: our interests are NOT IN EFFICIENCY …
4. ETHICS [catchy title?]
⁃ [Bharat input]
⁃ issues: data / Holometrics
⁃ dox: data rights, … what else?
⁃ Boundaries on use of the technology?
⁃ How do I maintain control of my reality / sense?
⁃ Privacy?
⁃ Data (and experience) ownership?
5. HUMAN-TECH [or merge with "reality" module with a unifying theme/title?]
⁃ contextualize with broader field of evolution of human-tech (Simondon, Stiegler, etc.)
⁃ instrumental fallacy … prevalent and a total dead end … How to avoid reducing either humans or machines to passive tools / instruments?
⁃ non neutrality of techs (Hayles, Bishop, …)
⁃ How do we conceive and identify points / moments of intervention and innovation within such complex, emergent systems from within them, as part of them?
⁃ Alongside human-machine symbiosis (HFi), can we also explore sustainable human-machine community?