Category Errors in Tech Discourse

*Purpose*: Grounds a philosophy of reframing technical metaphors toward more human-centred terms.

*Content*: Critique of terms like “human resources” or “incentivizing corporations” as obfuscating real social dynamics.

[00:47:37] Audrey Tang: Yeah, I think repeating, uh, the category errors, uh, of some business as usual language such as, I dunno saying human resources, uh, or incentivizing corporations, uh, just. Propagates this category error in our thinking. So it's like, um, trying to chart out a map, uh, but with like very tilted, uh, lens, uh, you, you can't perceive the world, right?

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[00:48:05] Uh, if you use that sort of category error, um, where it's, and so in 2016, uh, when I first entered the cabinet as the digital minister, uh, I made a word play because in Taiwan, digital shuway also means plural. So I'm not just a digital minister, I'm also the minister for plurality. I. So even though there's no ministry at the time, the ministry will come in 2022 …

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