ergonomics
Ergonomics is the design art purportedly aimed at keeping the fragile apparatus called a human running just a bit longer. Boasting comfort, yet capriciously ordering you to straighten your spine in the conference room, it is the mischievous science at play. Benevolent catalogs invariably issue the cold verdict that it’s your posture’s fault. The more it attempts to optimize every chair, the more the user becomes a tragicomic puppet of their own body.