ACMA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Radiant Energy
7 Apr 2016
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Studies of technologies explore the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and environment. We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us a mutually constitutive relationship. Often determine how social groups provide themselves with the material and structural objects of civilization. ** technologies can shape ideologies, and even the most basic human exchanges. Writing restructures thought = it affects and is affected by social and psychological components of human life. Myth and history - local narratives, cosmology, etc. There is little room for analytic thought because we are focussing on just repeating the big ideas. Most of human history has been oral. Was seen as artiicial because it severs the connection between the reader and the words socrates. It divides thought and speech (gives more precision to our thoughts) Shift toward analytic thought, shift away from memory. Writing separates the known from the knower. Writing as unnatural, foreign, divisive, etc. (global) technological development.
