ANTH 2120 Lecture Notes - Homo Sapiens, Virtual Reality, Techne
20 Nov 2012
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He explores the relationship between humans and technology and creativity and humans. He refutes the idea of an information age ( Human, technology and creativity through creation of tools and the use of tools, (techne), that makes us human. Age of techne vs. information age crafting rater than knowing. Homo faber vs. homo sapien every human mind is a locus of virtual experience where what goes on in the minds of men, however remote they may be, can be investigated virtual human. Second life is part of real life gap between virtual and actual. Second life is a culture, one with many subcultures holistic understanding of the constitutive intersectionality of cultural domains. Both of these cases speak to juxtapositions of cultural discrete-ness and cultural interchange in an era of globalization. Second life is a distinct virtual world and at the same time as having a porous membrane : online content (forums, blogs webpages) surrounding sl.
