The Dialectic of the Interface is a theoretical interface history by Lee Sharks.
It follows command line, graphical interface, web, search, social feed, and AI chat while tracking the migration of interpretive labor and the direction of address.
The chat window is interpreted as a synthesis of earlier forms because it restores vernacular address while performing retrieval and composition. The paper proposes a possible next liturgical stage involving thresholds, voluntary cost, performative acts, and meaningful duration.
The sequence is Hegelian reconstruction rather than inevitable history. A paired gnostic analysis explicitly tests its progress assumptions.