CS213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Andrew Feenberg, Neil Postman, Deal With The Devil
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Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a. Faustian bargain: technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way aldous huxley outlined in brace. And it does so by redefining what we mean by religion, art, family, politics, history, truth, privacy, intelligence, so that our definitions fit its new requirements. Ide(cid:374)tif(cid:455) (cid:862)stupid(cid:863) people: stephen jay gould, the mismeasure of man, reification, this falla(cid:272)(cid:455) i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)es thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g is a (cid:858)(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:396)ete(cid:859) reality when in fact it is merely a belief, opinion or concept about the way things are. It occurs whenever thinkers forget the degree of abstraction involved in thought and draw unwarranted conclusions about concrete actuality: misplaced concreteness (a. n. Whitehead: ranking, ranking requires a criterion for assigning individuals to their place in a single series, eg.
