Politics of Imaginaries
2023
Building on these discussions, we created The Limits of Computability, a zine that reflects on the boundaries of computational representation. Thanks to the workshop participants’ contributions, the zine highlights various digital technologies, from algorithmic management systems, and classification schemes, to generative AI tools and databases. Each entry focuses on the aspects of reality that resist abstraction despite the structuring effects of these systems. Rather than calling for more ‘capable’ systems, the zine argues for a critical and imaginative approach to computability, one that acknowledges what exceeds computation and fosters more sustainable, respectful relationships with digital technologies.
Zine available upon request until stocks run out.
Gabrielle Benabdallah, Michael W. Beach, Nathanael Elias Mengist, Daniela Rosner, Kavita S Philip, and Lucy Suchman. 2023. The Politics of Imaginaries: Probing Humanistic Inquiry in HCI. In Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 131–134. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563703.3591457
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