Abstract:This essay seeks to emphasize the role of aesthetics within the context of progress in digital information technologies. When technologies reach a usability stage, they tend to stagnate and enter a process of self-reflection. Technological evolution finds a stability of operation that makes these technologies an object incorporated into our social and everyday behaviors. We will call this state of the aestheticization of technologies. In this state, formal elements from other technologies are aggregated into a… Show more
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