That is the nightmarish economic vision of Her: the distinction between production and consumption is meaningless, affective labor has spread from the office to the most private realms, and technology has become so sophisticated that the brutality of that economy vanishes into air.

Spike Jonze’s Her: The Scariest Movie of 2013 | New Republic

Great critique of Her, which I have yet to see, via Dan W.

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Kars Alfrink

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.