Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Gestell, Human Events, Foxconn
11 Apr 2016
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Some arifacts are inherently poliical because they correlate with types of poliical relaionships. E: long island bridges built with height specs disallowing busses/minoriies to jones. For the sake of love vs. corporate proit. Orientaion to see everything as standing reserves (bestand) for global consumpion and uility. Earth as something to be dominated for an abstract goal. Free relaionship with the essence of technology (heideggar) Look beyond what we"ve been taught about technology. Determine why and how we use technology. Technology endangers our relaionship to the earth and each other. Mode of problem solving to achieve gestell. Capitalism changes everything to keep everything the same. Mass producion of commodiies shape desire to maintain power structure built on the mass producion of commodiies. Reproduce way of life that compels us to work and consume unil death. Staic redundancy that suggests the extended temporality in which something unforeseen might happen. Mechanical clock helped integrate the world spaially necessary for global transportaion and communicaion.
