Abstract

This article addresses Giorgio Agamben’s radicalization of the category of use, attempting to map out some of the key insights this yields, and seeking to establish the importance that this longstanding preoccupation of the Italian philosopher can have for design studies. It will be proposed that rethinking use with Agamben means rethinking the way we relate not only to artifacts but also to each other, thus possibly inspiring the design of experimental practices of sociality. In other words, it means reconsidering the way we organize and reorganize our senses and movements throughout everyday instances of entanglement with the world. Design debates have tended to subordinate the question of use to concerns over users, artifacts, and production. This exploration pledges instead to focus on alternative potentialities for use itself, ultimately interpreting Agamben’s articulation as the interplay of a certain attitude and a certain relationality that might, if only intermittently, take us beyond the individuating logic of sovereign intentionality.

摘要

本文讨论了乔治·阿甘本对使用类别的激进化，试图勾勒出由此产生的一些关键见解，并试图确定这位意大利哲学家长期以来的关注对设计研究的重要性。有人提出，重新思考阿甘本的使用意味着重新思考我们不仅与人工制品而且与彼此相关的方式，从而可能启发社会性实验实践的设计。换句话说，这意味着重新考虑我们在与世界纠缠的日常实例中组织和重组我们的感官和运动的方式。设计辩论倾向于将使用问题从属于对用户、工件和生产的关注。这种探索承诺将重点放在使用自身的替代潜力上，最终将阿甘本的表述解释为某种态度和某种关系的相互作用，如果只是断断续续地，可能会带我们超越主权意向的个体化逻辑。