Josh Rubin
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Just to say more: I’m thinking here of work like that of Hugo Münsterberg on film and aesthetics! For those who don’t know Münsterberg’s work, I’m learning that he is an incredibly fascinating figure–a popularizer of psychological theories in the domains of education, media, and law. He’s involved in complicated ways in the rise of the lie detector/polygraph as well as studies of the physiological responses that filmgoers have to the content on the screen. I’m presently exploring how his work has influenced generations of user researchers who apply similar techniques, for related theoretical reasons, to the study of the embodied responses of players to the videogames they play.
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Wow yes, I think Münsterberg has a ton to say, much more than most of the commenters on his work let on!
I just heard a talk by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun about the use of sentiment analysis in machine learning algorithms for social media. It was amazing–she traced the rise of sentiment analysis to studies of labor (particularly feminized labor) efficacy in the 1920s and Japanese internment. This talk really confirmed for me that we need to carefully interrogate the ways that psychological theories of human behavior and action have informed, and continue to inform, design processes!
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To me, reconciliation suggests two things that I don’t think actually happen, in practice: 1) reconciliation suggests a bringing back to unity, but there doesn’t seem to me to be an initial unity to return to. Or, rather, it seems to me that any claim of an initial unity is ideologically suspect. 2) reconciliation suggests to me a completed process, which doesn’t leave room for continual becoming. I totally think that there can be moments of coming-together across all manner of things, species, objects (and that those moments can be politically meaningful or everyday, transformative or normative), but that coming-together doesn’t ever seem “finished,” really. Fully reconciled. I’m curious what you think of all this!