When Technology Collaborates: Politics and the Aesthetic of “We” Human-and-Technology

Abstract

This essay proposes “We” human-and-technology as the new human identity performed by the collaborative action of human and technology. Its aim is to open a new way for intersections of art, technology and humanities, through the political and aesthetic intimacy of human and technology in the collaborative action based interdependent perspective. “We” human-and-technology emphasizes the process of when the collaborative action of human and technology is performed. It shows that technology as power and knowledge relations intervenes on the knowledge system, in particular, the binary frame reinforcing a mutual degradation between human and technology, thought and action. In the collaboration of “We” human-and-technology, technology’s interventions focuses on two ideas: Enframing and the fetish. The former presents that the binary frame is an inversion. It uses an instrument for ideology subordinating both humans and technology into the instrument. The latter reveals that the binary frame of “Us” versus “Them” governs our senses through the fetish as blinded practices and beliefs. It implies that how the instrumental understanding of technology conducts the fetishism distorting relations between human and technology.