SOCD41H3 Lecture Notes - Seat Belt, Law Of Excluded Middle
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Not quite: as a more general descriptive rule, every time you want to know what a nonhuman does, simply imagine what other humans or other nonhumans would have to do were this character not present. This imaginary substitution exactly sizes up the role, or function, of this little character. only function is to open and close the door. This is called a groom or a porter (from the french word for door), or a gatekeeper, or a janitor, or a concierge: a nonhuman (the hinges) plus a human (the groom) have solved the wall-hole dilemma. In other words, when humans are displaced and deskilled, nonhumans have to be upgraded and reskilled: an unskilled nonhuman groom thus presupposes a skilled human user. Missing masses?"" 159 as they say, of a human behavior onto a nonhuman, cold, technical object, one by nature impervious to any feeling.
