Hostility by Design
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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Technologies are not created hostile, but they can become so. Through neglect, austerity or repurposing, the systems that shape our lives can cause profound harm to people, animals, and physical and social environments in ways their creators neither anticipated nor acknowledged.
Drawing on examples spanning border control, welfare systems, urban design and AI, this provocative collection introduces the concept of technological innocence: the obliviousness that allows bias and hostility to flourish unchallenged.
Moving beyond naïve design ethics, it offers scholars, designers and policy makers a powerful new vocabulary for confronting the darker consequences of technological choice.
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2. Let the Hostilities Begin! A Tale of Two Digital Strategies to De- vs. Re-Territorialize Agriculture - Léa Stiefel and Alain Sandoz
3. They Deserved It! The Geographies of Affect and the Hostility/Justice Conundrum of Spite Architecture - Annaclaudia Martini
4. Epistemic Curation: Lessons from an Exhibition on Exclusionary Design - Ole B. Jensen, Carsten Hvid Nielsen and Pia Justesen
5. Blockchain Technology and Repeatable Innocence - Tim Jordan
6. Navigating the Eastern Aegean Border Archipelago: Grey Zones and Black Holes by Design - Vasiliki Makrygianni
7. Biometrics, Bureaucracy, and Hostility: The Case of Aadhar in India - Vidya Subramanian
8. Insecure Security: Technical Vulnerabilities and Misuse of Internet-Connected Chinese Surveillance Cameras - Ausma Bernot
9. Gilbert Simondon and Temporal Hostility - Massimiliano Simons and Darryl Cressman
10. Fencing the Hong Kongers: Protection, Control, Expulsion - Jeroen de Kloet and Yiu Fai Chow
11. Gacha Alchemy: Hostility by Design in Contemporary Digital Games - Ningxiang Sun
12. Excluded by Default: Binary Gender Infrastructures as Algorithmic Design Hostility - Christoffer Koch Andersen
13. Creating Hostile Technologies - Alison Powell & Philipp Seuferling
14. The Labour of Hearing: Musicality, Mediation and Digital Hearing Aids - Nishtha Bharti and Matthew Spring
15. Ecological Hostility: AI, Data Centres, and a 'Nuclear Renaissance' - Annika Richterich
16. The Despotism of Drainage: Mexico City's Sewer Tunnels and the Limits of Technical Democracy - Dean Chahim
17. High-heel Hostility - Chris Hesselbein
18. Unwinding Hostilities of Cotton Spinning Technologies - Vivek Oak
19. Acoustic Pest Repellents and Ultrasonic Hostility in a Multispecies World - Joeri Bruyninckx
20. Critical Theory and Hostile Urban Design - Blake D. Scott and Lisann Penttilä
21. Governing Hostility by Ethics: Towards a Responsible Use of AI-enabled Weapons - Jens Hälterlein
22. Tbc (separate papers at workshop; now decided to write together), about automated welfare services - Cassy Juhasz and Marijke Roosen
23. Hostile Examiners: Considering X-ray Machines as Hostile Technologies in the Canadian Immigrant Medical Exam - Brigid Goulem