Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Silk Road Economic Belt, Jacques Ellul

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

Document Summary

We are not free; our environment is mediated by technology: technology has no meaning, truth: technical world affects social world, technological development is natural and inevitable. Truth: promotes unnatural things: technology connects us and makes the world a better place, truth: actually makes us farther apart. The te(cid:272)h(cid:374)olog(cid:455) does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)atte(cid:396), just the so(cid:272)ial o(cid:396) e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) e(cid:373)(cid:271)edded. Examples include the bridges that robert moses built: the overhead passes were kept low to keep poor people and blacks off the roads in the cities. Technologies enhance power, authority and privilege to some people over others. They therefore build order in our world. Technology is fundamentally enframing, therefore gestell is the essence of technology: view of technology in the way humans live, which is our relationship to the usefulness of the world through technological means. It is a way of thinking and doing (what exists is for our use) Collect and alter materials of nature into stores of homogeneous supplies.