
The Interface Effect
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Recognizing the limits of either path, Galloway charts analternative course by considering the interface as an autonomouszone of aesthetic activity, guided by its own logic and its ownends: the interface effect. Rather than praisinguser-friendly interfaces that work well, or castigating those thatwork poorly, this book considers the unworkable nature of allinterfaces, from windows and doors to screens and keyboards.Considered allegorically, such thresholds do not so much tell thestory of their own operations but beckon outward into the realm ofsocial and political life, and in so doing ask a question to whichthe political interpretation of interfaces is the only coherentanswer.
Grounded in philosophy and cultural theory and driven by closereadings of video games, software, television, painting, and otherimages, Galloway seeks to explain the logic of digital culturethrough an analysis of its most emblematic and ubiquitousmanifestation - the interface.
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Preface
Introduction: The Computer as a Mode of Mediation
I. The Unworkable Interface
II. Software and Ideology
III. Are Some Things Unrepresentable?
IV. Disingenuous Informatics
Postscript: We Are the Gold Farmers
Notes
Index
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