STS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Technophobia, Intensive Animal Farming, Deskilling
22 Mar 2016
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Sts 200 lecture 16- tuesday march 8 th 2016. Social forces dominant in western technoscience were registered by romanicists and luddites for being variously inhuman . Early modernity: criical distance, zheng he(c. 1371-1436 ad). Why didn"t the chinese conquer the world: technical superiority (chinese>european): compases(magnets) used to navigate, ships are way awesomer, gunpowder/prining was a thing, these innovaions were deemed crazy awesome by *bacon, ming dynasty: means enlightened b. Inwardness: the celesial empire-the king of heaven is the emperor. Everyone coninues to perpetuate this idea, and you can exert pacifying control over everyone. People ofer the leet presents, and the presents prove that the emperor is indeed the king of heaven. Chinese culture escaped nature, and doesn"t have to regain paradise because it is paradise. They didn"t need to believe in progress and innovaion: they already had everything they needed. They weren"t at war with the cosmic universe.
