Feminist Care in the Anthropocene: Packing and Unpacking Tensions in Posthumanist HCI

Key, Cayla; Gatehouse, Cally; Taylor, Nick

doi:10.1145/3532106.3533540

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“…As mentioned, what Vergès reminds us here is that imagination is a privilege that many people do not have the time or circumstances to exercise. As academics or scholars, many of us are privileged enough to have time to engage in the kind of imaginative work that it takes to build new paradigms [15], and because it is a privilege we should take it seriously.…”

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Imagining LIMITS: Can ChatGPT radically re-imagine a new world?

Cooney

Ninth Computing Within Limits 2023

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A major goal of the LIMITS community is to actively build a world that respects ecological limits by de-centering the idea of growth as progress, focusing on how technology can be used to create such a world and what technology will look like in this world. Achieving this goal involves taking existing philosophies (e.g., Meadow's Limits to Growth) and translating them into actionable steps. Often, this requires taking broad philosophies that speak of the world generally and thinking about how they can be operationalized through technology. Imagining a world that exists outside of the current paradigms of unlimited growth and uber consumption can be quite difficult, and figuring out how to actually achieve this kind of world sometimes seems like a herculean task. This paper asks whether large language models, specifically ChatGPT, can be used in service of radically re-imagining our world and the place of technology. There are two primary reasons to ask this question. First, new generative tools like Open AI's ChatGPT promise to change the way people live and work, and such tools have been born and trained in a "growth as progress" world. It is important to be aware of how these tools portray alternatives to growth-based paradigms. The second reason, is to assess the value of such tools for brainstorming alternative, LIMITS-aligned ways of using computing. This paper looks at seven philosophies that challenge the all-growth status quo, and asks ChatGPT to imagine how computing would be used in worlds in which each paradigm was central. Each response was then analyzed to provide an overview of just how radical ChatGPT's "imagination" can be. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Interactive systems and tools; HCI design and evaluation methods; Interaction design;

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Section: Radical Imaginationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Imagining LIMITS: Can ChatGPT radically re-imagine a new world?

Cooney

Ninth Computing Within Limits 2023

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Speculative Practicescapes of Learning Design and Dreaming

Costello,

McDonald,

Macgilchrist

et al. 2024

Postdigit Sci Educ

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This article addresses a serious issue that besets learning design: its over-reliance on frameworks that promise particular outcomes for individual learners that accord with pre-defined metrics. This is partly a function of the nature of learning design and development itself which is commonly seen as outcome-oriented activity that should benefit individual learners in specific ways. An alternative approach is adopted here which calls attention to other happenings at the heart of education, including positive emotions we experience that are made known through less measurable and more fleeting points of reference. Hence, we draw on sources such as poems and personal reflections in order not just to design learning but to dream it. The concept of a practicescape is invoked which serves not just to situate learning but to remind the learner that their learning experience only happens within the context of their finite lifetime. Seven practicescapes are presented and reflected on by the authors as a conversation framework for interrogating ideas of learning that owe more to dreams, poems, and possibilities than aims, objectives, or outcomes. Drawing on early Buddhist philosophy, the practicescapes attempt to honour particular affective states and conjure a heart-centred framework on which to hang speculative questions and provocations for learning design that are focused on cultivating and sustaining the most positive forms of human experience. These practicescapes are offered as a speculative learning design climbing frame that could take us from dreams of possibility to enlivened and embodied presents.

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What mosses can teach us about design fabulations and feminist more-than-human care

Søndergaard

2023

Human–Computer Interaction

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Feminist Care in the Anthropocene: Packing and Unpacking Tensions in Posthumanist HCI

Cited by 24 publications

References 81 publications

Imagining LIMITS: Can ChatGPT radically re-imagine a new world?

Imagining LIMITS: Can ChatGPT radically re-imagine a new world?

Speculative Practicescapes of Learning Design and Dreaming

What mosses can teach us about design fabulations and feminist more-than-human care

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