Autobiography of an Interface

This essay is an attempt to formulate and justify a personal definition of interface — with the aim of discovering whether, how, when, and why we are subject to manipulation when encountering other interfaces. In this sense, the interface described here is a project-in-progress: a tool intended to help recognise ‘truthful speech and action’ and to distinguish these from manipulation. To resist the external control of our attention, we must cultivate control over our own intentionality. The objective of this study is to identify the learning conditions and experiences necessary for developing this competence, and to propose a teaching and learning environment that can support its cultivation.