Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Martin Heidegger, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Medieval Commune
20 Dec 2016
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Conditioned governance of us economy and also the ways in which people communicate by digital devices and systems. Eric packer exhibits these qualities in full before he becomes obstructed to himself and the company he built. He begins the book believing all elements of objectivism, but as the plot progresses, he begins to lose faith and question these premises. Raises the themes of enframing and nihilism. Non-stop world of capitalist in which human life is inscribed into endless cycles without breaks. The markets do not close; stock information never stops flowing. Technologies summoning us further into the future. The present is something we ignore entirely as we look and act toward the future. Counter-fiction that doesn"t just describe the ways we use technology, but what constitutes thinking. Thought, technology, and social power perpetually reproduce and enforce one another into deeply entrenched patterns.
