210 2014 w9- What is Technology?
The question concerning Technology
Culture and language as the source of the self
Technology and Power: towards a betterment of humanity- The Century of the Self
Berney’s vision: social control through images (and language- linguistics)
Adorno and Kracauer use of images for social control vs structuralist through science (precise control over language; language and any other phenomena understood as systems that can be discerned and understood.
Claude Levi Straus and Jakobson read Baudelaire’s Les Chats
The function of language: as a means to creating images and reveal something essential vs. language as a tool for communication (structuralism); comprehensible and useful to the exercise of control.
Cybernetics: social control through digital technologies; Norbert Wiener
dissolution of the individual- death vs part of the whole
Trevor Plagen
Zeitgeist