SOSC 2560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Planned Obsolescence, Totalitarianism, Mass Production

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2560
• Professor: Arash Falasiri

Document Summary

Improvements in technology get mistake for progress" itself; in many ways we become less free as technology advances. One dimensional society" refers to the flatting of imagination, culture, politics, and discourse into technological rationality. Irrational rationality": the atomic bomb, planned obsolescence, society gets bigger, richer, yet more dangerous (loss of autonomy) Technological a priori": we experience the world through the lens of technological rationality. Page three in odm meaning of totalitarian: totalitarian is not only a terroristic may well be compatible with a pluralism or parties, newspapers, countervailing powers", etc . Proliferation of false needs" (vs. vital & non-vital: those which are superimposed upon the individual by particular social interests in which his repression: the needs which perpetuate toil, aggressiveness, misery and injustice . Non negative" spirituality: zenbudisim and (some other fucked up work) spiritualties. In sum, the absorption of ideology into reality: ideologies are always in the process of production and consumption.