ABSTRACT
What is going on between someone about to become a user and that thing called a camera? How can the user know what to expect from the machine, and how to handle it and care for it? And how can the camera adapt itself to particular situations and intentions? Gilbert Simondon’s concept of technicity, which aims at describing the technical knowledge embodied in the machine and in the user’s gestures symmetrically, allows one to analyze the common space between body and machine as the place where a relationship both technical and political can take place.
