Toward a New Design Philosophy: Politics and the Aesthetic of "We" Human-and-Technology in Interaction Design

This paper suggests that the relation of politics and the aesthetic in interaction design depends on a situated knowledge of how to interact with each other. Its aim is to open a new way to approach interaction design philosophy in the perspective of “We” human-and-technology. As a case, interaction design with BCI stimulates a network of conceptual relations rather than merely perceptions of the visible aspects of singles works. The investigation of relations between politics and the aesthetic in interaction design reveals that the instrumental understanding of technology is the colonization by tolerance-tactic.