Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture : IMAGINATION Lecture #9
12 Dec 2013
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Week 9: imagination: the end of why. We are hooked on our apparti (smart phones) Weve seen groups camp out in parks. Gary want eye piece as apparat (google glass) Stern warning (exaggerates today"s world but possible) Our obsession with liveness (we were there) World that swallowed the toxic pill of modernity (speed and rationality. Tech. can solve everything (death, love, etc: the end of why. If we expect big data to solve out problems we stop asking why they happen dangerous. If build a more just, equal world we need space for empathy but big data prevents this. Sstls presents this idea nobody in the book asks why. World of sstls is a world of perpetual almostness . Len needs sense of nostalgia to know whats important. If you have relationship with the past youre left behind/marginalized. World living within the next 5 minutes forgets past. Looks to future in a psychotic way, humans conquering nature, re-engineering the world.
