Transforming dispositions towards automation

Speaking to debates on how digital automation is changing people's capacities, my commentary affirms the value of surveying the myriad dispositions to automation that are muffled by the force of dominant boosterist or dystopian narratives. However, rather than assuming strong 'reactions' to automated objects or interfaces, I speculate that interactions with automation might be better characterised as 'non-encounters' for many. I explain how the non-encounters of being lulled, cajoled, and swayed can be evaluated as politically troubling, but that responses to heighten awareness of automation's politics may not necessarily result in people caring more about it. My commentary proposes a more indeterminate understanding of how people immanently evaluate automation which invites a more transitional and low-intensity understanding of the dispositions involved.