In order to challenge and explore the basic assumptions in service design and the methods inherited from other disciplines, feminist standpoint thinking can bring relevant contributions, especially for those taking user experience design as the main focus of their research.
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Paul B. Preciado
Testosterone as political weapon / Interview with paul B. Preciado
Paul B. Preciado: "We think in a completely absurd way, that the body ends where the skin ends, and this always happens to us. And then, instead of talking about the body, I use the term “body archive”. To me the body is a cultural and a political archive. It is an archive that contains images, narratives and practices in it".
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Imaginary Cosmopolitanism
Recent contributions from Ethan Zuckerman, researcher on the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard University, pointed out that the global connectivity feeling that we perceive from new media is unreal. The poverty of attention centres that we though have overcome in the age after Google is actually being reproduced by the new media in connected environments.
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