Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Teleology, Postbiological Evolution

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B
• Professor: Warren Steele

Document Summary

If we continue to develop technology we will achieve our destiny (this is a lie) Conveniently erases our fear of death; once we physically merge with technology we will become immortal. Singularity is an idea that tells us capitalism is awesome, tells us all needs will be met and no one will ever die if we stick to our guns and continue what we are doing. Singularity presents us with a picture of the future which is perfect and inevitable (steele says it is not true because nothing is inevitable, there is no destiny) Promise of singularity is a world without death. Capitalism is pushing the singularity, it is produced by the spectacle(singularity is the essence of the spectacle) It is a dream and frequently presented as non-political. It is political however, politics demands non-interference with corporate operations. Singularity is the moment when human experience as we know it comes to an end.