CS213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-5: Proletariat, The Principle, Cultural Determinism
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Readings january 16: slogans as weapons - guns don"t kill people, people do , questions of causality dominate what matters in this relationship. Tech as a cause: technological determinism: tech is understood to have effects and that tech change is the principal determinant of cultural change, belief depends on. That the technical base of a society is the fundamental condition affecting all patterns of social existence. That changes in tech are the single most important source of change in society: writing tech is the cause of major cultural change, revolutionary technologies: Social media: techs do not determine effects. Introduction: how techs are perceived as the means of controlling nature and culture, how techs are perceived as escaping human control, the master and the slave. Utilitarianism: use-value of objects and people and asks what profit can be made from something or how something can be useful: social control i. e. coordination of a populations in the accomplishment of a task = megamachine.
