CT100 Lecture 3: CT 100 Jan 19
Document Summary
How technology changes social relations on all levels. How to teach rede nes power and accountability. Control related technologies (enable control over operator) Critics need to examine the agenda and the particular kind of reality being promoted in our society by (the process) of technology. Opting out isn"t enough but experiencing genuine things and moments is essential as that is where critique can come from, reciprocity (interactive give and take) is present, and interactive communication and argumentative (human) skills are developed. Technology as a form of control and management. We need to ask what technology unables us to do as much as what it enables us to do. Consumer as a social institution is created (consumer can be a machine or a human and both start to look and act a lot more alike) Government now responsive to technocrats and corporations more than the people who are themselves a subject to the actions of technocrats and corporations.
