Thought 9 - Milton Lim October 29th

My name is Milton Lim and this is my ninth thought residency going out to your eyes and ears. I just finished watching season 2 of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. So, today I'm thinking about my relationship to technology, especially user interface and design for touch screens. I think about the gesture of swiping as a violent act. Even in definition swiping is suggested to be a strong sweeping blow. I think about the etymology of the word, suggesting that it was a variant of sweep, and I think about the connections of cleanliness: wiping, sweeping, clearing, but then there's swiping. For all of its utility, I wonder about these gestures and how it situates me in my experience of news, dating applications, social media, phone calls, people, systems, and notions of self-identity.