Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mao Ii, Mind Share, Counterforce
13 Aug 2016
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Our capacity to express what we don"t know how to say yet goes undeveloped for specific reasons. Modern technology has produced a global situation in which hundreds of millions of people communicate in a manner that is quantitatively superior than before. What matters most is not what we do with the technologies that we are given, but the ways those same technologies strain or delimit what we do, and affect our thinking about the world. Each one of us is deeply integrated with the seemingly unassailable social order that resists the adoption of a common language. The more readily we recognize our own needs in the images of need under the present system, the more readily we understand that the system degenerates. The forces determining our temporary life are insidious. Maintaining the illusion that we are free from all forces so that we continue to reproduce them. The world provides you with everything needed to reproduce it.
