{"product_id":"maisa-in-webland-detouring-ux-destinies","title":"Maisa in Webland: Detouring UX Destinies","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does ‘user-friendly’ website mean if, on it, online behaviors like stalking, teasing, and ghosting—once considered peripheral—are now central to survival, care, and belonging? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow does one thrive without becoming an “Interdisciplinary Unicorn”: the state’s most beloved user-citizen fluent in multiple registers of production, optimization, and self-branding?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow in this beautiful world is one supposed to log off, when surveillance and privacy erosion have been normalized?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd how, oh how, could users possibly think of building the alternatives, when cool and cringe online acts, all activate the platform’s reward system: the unleashing of emoji-filled praise? How do users resist a platform’s toxic seduction?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunted by screenshots of early cyberfeminist websites and in dialogue with digital sages, web scripts, and business interests, media artist, web developer, and author Maisa Imamović embarks on a philosophical and practice-based crusade through the internet’s surface and its shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo expose the various ways of thriving online without surrendering to optimization, this  book explores imperfect uses of perfect software, preservation of precarious web infrastructures, tactical content strategies, and experiments with autonomous financial systems—all wrapped in educational efforts to sustain criticality amid automation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough these traversals beneath the scroll, Maisa finds her Webland: speculative, broken, and oftentimes, poetic infrastructure where logic destabilizes, binaries dissolve, and meaning evades monetization. But can a non-extractive internet exist beyond metaphor? Can poetry rewire protocol? Or will her sanctuary be absorbed into the very architectures it resists?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned by Clara Pasteau\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Set Margins' Publications, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, 248 pages, full color, 8.46 × 5.51 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-9-08-357954-2\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Curated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48084499661054,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1681\/2497\/files\/MaisainWeblandDetouringUXDestinies.jpg?v=1778871692","url":"https:\/\/draw-down.com\/products\/maisa-in-webland-detouring-ux-destinies","provider":"Draw Down","version":"1.0","type":"link"}