Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Svetlana Alexievich, Gestell, Michio Kaku

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

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Catastrophe (cid:498) the accident reveals the substance because w(at crops up is a sort of analysis, of our successes in this accidental revelation of the incriminated substances. (cid:499) - paul a techno-analysis of what is beneath any knowledge. It follows that fighting against the damage done by progress above all means uncovering the hidden truth. To invent the train equivalent of the first shipwreck of the first ship. (cid:499) - paul virilio, the original is to invent the rail accident of derailment. To invent the family automobile is to produce the pile-up on the highway. To get what is heavier than air to take off in the form of an aeroplane or dirigible is to invent the crash, the air disaster. As for the space shuttle, challenger, its blowing up in flight in the same year [1986] that the tragedy of chernobyl occurred is the original accident of a new motor, the.