MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Industrial Revolution, Richard Serra, Nancy Holt
29 Sep 2016
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It structures our interactions, our personal relationships and our self-presentation: modifies our interactions in and around the world around us, can play with sensory reaction, it modifies our experience of the world. We are fascinated by extensions of ourselves, though we do not recognize these as ourselves: sees technology as an extension of ourselves, it means that technology is something physical, social and psychological, or intellectual extension of human. Cellphone perceive it as being foreign, it"s external from our bodies, but it"s extending our senses he talks about the extension of man the car. We often talk about technology about being very functional. Auto-amputation is an immediate relief or strain" wherein we attempt to numb ourselves from over-stimulation: people create extensions to offload technology with something we would have to do on our own, or do something we cannot do.
