NPF 504 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Merritt Roe Smith, Fredric Jameson, Modern Art

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Media Studies
• Course: NPF 504
• Professor: Jessica Thom

Document Summary

Technology: the emergence of a hazardous concept by leo marx. Innovation in the mechanic arts is a driving force of human history. Society was aware that there were developments causing changes in lifestyle, but society had no name to. Semantic void: an awareness of certain novel developments in society and culture for which no adequate name had yet become available. Mechanical arts was celebrated as the means of achieving progress. Innovations in the mechanic arts were later regarded with weal producing innovations, which represented socially transformative power and became an icon of human progress eg. the rail road. During the early phase of industrialization, innovations in the mechanic arts had been represented as single free standing, more or less self contained mechanical machines/devices. The discrete machine was being replaced by the typical embodiment of power: the rail road, which was on of the earliest and most visible large scale complex systems of the modern era.