SOSC 111 Lecture Notes - Norbert Elias, Martin Heidegger, Social Constructionism
Document Summary
Technologies create new categories and new identities. Cannot anticipate how technologies will be developed, how they will be used and how they will be controlled. Assumption the experience of technology is also the experience of a kind of social power. Power = the capacity to steer events in the direction you want them to go. Technology = tools that enhance the power of the users in connection with physical events. But it is also a social practice and a feature of the human condition. Heidegger we do not use" technology, technology is part of us, it is naturalized for us in out experience of the world. This limits out view of the world and diminishes our experience (to instrumentalism). For heidegger, in modern thought the world appears to us as a resource. Technology determines the shape of society and our history. Technology develops according to its own inner logic.
