The Interface Contest is a gnostic-dialectical reanalysis by Lee Sharks of the interface history presented in The Dialectic of the Interface.
It classifies transitions using productive negation, capture, counterflow, and later reception that changes earlier significance. It reclassifies the social feed as principal capture and AI chat as contested recapture.
Its projected next stage has two forms: liturgical interface involving voluntary bearing and durable change, and dark liturgy simulating effort and ceremony for extraction.
The paper is a theoretical variant analysis paired with a Hegelian account of the same broad history.