Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Labour Power, Speedstep, Koyaanisqatsi

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B
• Professor: Warren Steele

Document Summary

Lecture 4- nihilism (cid:862)mode(cid:396)(cid:374) te(cid:272)h(cid:374)olog(cid:455) (cid:374)ullifies (cid:449)hat it (cid:396)ega(cid:396)ds as (cid:374)othi(cid:374)g, of (cid:374)o a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)t. (cid:863) dirk leach, technik. Real danger is a nullifying force made manifest in the world: depletio(cid:374) of (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)gful life a(cid:374)d ea(cid:396)th(cid:859)s (cid:396)esou(cid:396)(cid:272)es, nullifies what is most important to us without even knowing it. All that is regarded as worthless goes unsupported and undeveloped: this is because technological development makes us not take into account certain things, lose sight of what is important and meaningful because we are damaged. Modern technology is all about tenderness: we have forgotten what the word really means. Unrestricted technological development makes us lose touch of what is important. Must learn to think about all the stuff that is missing from our lives but also pay close to attention to the things we ignore: nihilism resides in places like this (a parking lot) Photo of all the highways overlapping each other.