COMS 274 Lecture 6: Intermedia challenging the received view of technology
26 Oct 2018
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February 12: week 6: intermedia: Chapter 12: articulatoin and assemblage. Challenging the received view of technology. Peter lang inc. , 2015: chapter 12 pp. Surveillance used for population control: security concerns and/or economic gain. The contingent connection of different elements that, when connected in a particular way, form a specific unity (152) The construction of one set of relations out of another (153- slack and wise quoting larry grossberg) Assemblages are not fixed, but always changing; always transforming (158) Technology as articulation draws attention to the practices, representations, experiences, and affects that constitute technology. Technology as assemblage adds to this understanding by drawing attention to the ways that these practices, with broader cultural consequences (156). Technologies give humans advantages in our struggle against nature. The domination of nature is a fundamental value of western culture (max scheler) Examples of reshaping the landscape: the building of large dams, agricultural technologies, forestry, mining, genetic manipulation, mapping the human genome.
