Jason Farman
@farman
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Exploring tech, culture, & human experience. Prof and author of Delayed Response | Mobile Interface Theory. https://t.co/0zCY3Vj1vB
College Park, MD
Joined July 2007
My book, tentatively titled “A History of New Things,” shows how industrial design created newness as a value. I trace the history of our desire for the new, show its impact on our lives & environment (as we dispose of things at an accelerating pace), and what we can do about it.
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Why We’re Wired to Want, But Not Enjoy, Black Friday Deals: A Neuroscientist and an Industrial Designer Have Advice About Your Black Friday Buying Habits. My latest post on Substack https://t.co/mP3Pth1uio
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Why We’re Wired to Want, But Not Enjoy, Black Friday Deals: A Neuroscientist and an Industrial Designer Have Advice About Your Black Friday Buying Habits. My latest post on Substack https://t.co/mP3Pth1uio
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My new Substack article: How a Camera’s Design Changed Technology Forever When industrial design gave technology a sleek surface—one that could be change each year to represent updates—consumers were distanced from how these devices actually work. https://t.co/db0asqvclM
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Baudelaire in 1859 on photography (or perhaps a 2024 critic of #AI promptography?): "If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.”
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My new Substack article: How a Camera’s Design Changed Technology Forever When industrial design gave technology a sleek surface—one that could be change each year to represent updates—consumers were distanced from how these devices actually work. https://t.co/db0asqvclM
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When he told me, “We are more adept at wanting than we are at liking,” it felt like he gave me the keys to unlock the deeper reasons why we’ve ended up in a cycle of endless upgrades. https://t.co/7sf9yHvFgV
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I cannot wait for this event! Everyone reading this should sign up to join the conversation! I’ll be joining via Zoom and hope you do, too!
Giving an online talk, "Getting Maintenance Organized," for @LindaHall_org and @SocHistTech this Thursday at noon CT. https://t.co/QBAFIXMkxV Looking at the history of the phrase "operations and maintenance." The British Navy adopted it in 1917. US railroads by the 1930s.
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This is how I want politics to be: I do not listen to Shania Twain and will not buy her albums. But my God she is talented. I understand why people like her even if I don’t. Republicans, where are you Shania Twains???
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This is my 15th year at @UofMaryland and I've never seen anything like this: The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute has openings for *30* (!) tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined.
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13 years ago the seedlings of my current book project were planted, the same year I started teaching planned obsolescence. A few years later I started repair workshops with my grad students, eventually expanding it to my undergrads and the local community.
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What fix-it video have you watched recently? I watched a video on how to replace the brush roll on my vacuum cleaner; it was an easy and cheap fix to give it new life. The fixing community is keeping this stuff out of landfills!
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Despite its reputation as one of the world’s pre-eminent techno venues, its parties aren’t documented online. To ensure compliance, door staff place stickers on the front and back of patrons’ smartphones, covering their cameras. https://t.co/NVIOYGoyXd via @NYTimes
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It’s standard practice in Berlin, and camera covering is catching on in London, Ibiza and New York as clubs seek to protect an anything-goes atmosphere.
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Michael S. Roth, the President of Wesleyan University, offering a fantastic Op-Ed that repeats many things I have said this year: “I’m a College President and I Hope My Campus Is Even More Political This Year” https://t.co/e6I9I6gavW via @NYTOpinion
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Higher education should be tolerant but never neutral.
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My book, Delayed Response, is quoted here, drawing from the section where I talk about Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." https://t.co/Z4QGd7opb5
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