Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Radical Change, Endangerment, Avital Ronell
17 Jan 2017
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Danger that comes from our believing that we have something like a destiny. Part of the danger is the violence when people do something in the name of some great project. Even if we can divide the life of a thinker and the work they produced, He knew from experience that there is something dangerously fascist about the way in which engage with technology. The mars one ad is fascist: white face, blonde hair blue eyes representing. He identified tech as something that should be questioned in a way that would permit us to set aside what we know about tech in order to get at the truth. We reproduce ready made narratives the limits allotted to thought, to achieve an adequate relationship to. H is striving for to uncover this one aspect that profoundly effects the way that we see and engage the world (what we think it means to be human, since brilliant but also contested.
