Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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M e d i a , i n f o rm a t i o n a n d te c h n o c u l t u re 2 5 0 0 a / b. Gestell - enframing , a way of thinking and acting towards the world, sees the world as a reserve or resources. Bestand - standing-reserve . an aspect of the world that"s been reformulated and readied as available for exploitation under enframing. Their relationship - gestell drives people to create an ever-expanding system of consumption and utility that collects and alters the materials of nature into a surplus of homogenous supplies, It happens when we collectively ignore everything we mistakenly classified as valueless as we go about developing the world. Nihilism reveals itself, insofar as it can be revealed, through the appearance of plenitude, where there is far too much of the same thing.
