RHETOR 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Technological Determinism, Coevolution
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Ex. speech is a form of technics. Stiegler points out that technology is an evolutionary process but only came into being after human beings emerged (anthropogenesis) Before anthrogenesis there is only the genetic process of transformation. When interacting with your friend, not staring at your phone, but socializing directly. She would probably think it"s not a good thing: She relates human intimacy with human consciousness. Old people preferred human companionship with the experimenters in the study more than the toys or the robots. *but turkle would be uncomfortable with his assumption that the system. Could produce pleasure (even now right now it is explicitly problematic) She thinks that the system cannot product pleasure. Saying that pharmakon is moving away from cure towards disease. But canguilhem possibility would critique this division between normal/ pathological - right now technology seems to very abnormal, but might just be another form of milieu. So, we are just in an evolutionary phase.
