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How to Make Your Relationship Work? Aesthetic Relations with Technology
1Section of Medical Ethics, Academic Medical Centre, Postbus 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Abstract:
Discussing the workings of technology in care as aesthetic rather than as ethical or epistemological interventions focusses on how technologies engage in and change relations between those involved. Such an aesthetic study opens up a repertoire to address values that are abundant in care, but are as yet hardly theorized. Kamphof studies the problem that sensor technology reveals things about the elderly patients without the patients being aware of this. I suggest improvement of these relations may be considered in aesthetic terms, for instance by developing the affective quality of people's technological relationships.
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