GEO 702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ursula Franklin, Status Quo, Neoliberalism

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Tool: use of redemptive technologists (ursula franklin readings) 3 rules to consider: technology is not neutral (ex. Guns are neutral, it is made for a purpose: technology is not preordained - means that we don"t have to accept technology, does not mean we are powerless, technology can be holistic or prescriptive: Holistic: workers who control their work processes from beginning to end. Perspective: divides labour into steps which increases workers specialization, limits workers control: technology must be understood as practice, as a cultural expression: Since the world is divided into divisions of labour. This allows technology to separate knowledge from experience. And technology most often defines what efficiency means. Redemptive technologies can be developed: rethinking existing technologies associated with the scale and the appropriateness of. Think about a practice and a redemptive technology. First term test m/c, with some explaining your answers. First lecture levins (society is not a by product of economy), lefty, take a look at his arguments.

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