Seeking references #academictwitter --- has anyone done a taxonomy of the ways in which we use anthropomorphic language (to describe computer systems or otherwise)?
There was something else I was searching for in my collections that dealt with how people tend to conceive of the body in terms of the dominant tech of the day, which I think is inversely related in an interesting way (e.g. the body talked about or visually rendered as a system of pulleys & gears, or rods & cranks, etc)
@emilymbender sorry, not a taxonomy, but I wrote a chapter on how people strategically use different metaphors to talk about computer systems: embodied and spatial when they’re in control, anthropomorphised and adversarial when they’re not.
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