The Power of Maybes
Machines, Uncertainty and Design Futures
The Power of Maybes
Machines, Uncertainty and Design Futures
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In a world of endless predictions and precision algorithms, The Power of Maybes offers a daring new way forward.
What if uncertainty isn't a problem to solve, but a gift? This book reclaims hesitation, ambiguity and not-knowing as powerful tools to resist the rigid control of digital systems. Where machines seek to lock down knowledge, capture potential, dictate futures and foreclose possibilities, The Power of Maybes presents the radical idea that embracing uncertainty is essential in our age of planetary computation and offers ways of cultivating it as a form of resistance.
By reframing the unknown as a powerful resource, Marenko offers a bold approach to living and thinking alongside machines without surrendering to their grip. Blending philosophy, design and critical tech studies, it challenges dystopian fears and utopian hopes about technology, and champions new ways of being-open, ungridded, unscaled. It's a call to cultivate the unknown and nurture potential. For those ready to reclaim their agency in an algorithmic age, The Power of Maybes is a guide to living with oceanic uncertainty-and finding power in it.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Hybrid Futures
A Note on Method
Part I
1. Machines Work
2. Algorithmic Subjects
3. Resisting Reduction
Part II
4. Metic Wayfinding
5. Oceanic Uncertainty
6. Unknowing Stratagems
Conclusion: Whatever Designs
Bibliography
Index
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| Published | 21 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 176 |
| ISBN | 9781350377295 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Series | Beyond the Modern |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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