Project Glass: a Google Incursion into Algorithmic Culture

Présenté dans le cadre de la International Conference on Algorithmic Cultures à Konstanz, Allemagne, le 24 juin 2014.

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1. Louis Melançon
   lab NENIC, Montréal (Québec)
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5. A solution to no problem
   The techno-scientific regime of justification
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6. A product for which market?
   The economic regime of justification
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7. The fear for privacy
   The political regime of justification
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8. Eyes are soul-adjacent
   The moral-aesthetic regime of justification
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9.  Throughout history, glasses have been employed
   predominantly as the de facto symbol of
   unattractiveness, of loserdom. They are the
   iconic tipping point between cool and uncool […]
   Leave it to a bunch of Halo-playing, Dorito-eating
   engineers to voluntarily ignore that basic cultural
   bias. And worse, to maybe think all they had to
   do was wear them themselves to make them
   cool somehow.
    Joel Hladecek, Message from the future
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14. Louis.Melancon@ucs.inrs.ca
    LMelancon.net
    @lm_3
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