Is the way Technology is advancing really \u201crational-and-desirable\u201d? (A Critique)
\nA project by Emily Saladin-Crosse. 3rd year, Philosophical studies. Newcastle university, 2021.
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\n[key words: introjection, consumption of mediated, de-sublimated product and information; deciphering true and false needs; nothing radically new, increasingly; mediated learning\u2026]
\n\u201cDear Guests,
\nAs of 2021, we ask for your help for a critical approach to modern-day technology. To bring you up to date\u2026 The new \u201cphenomenological playground\u201d is the internet. Via the phone\/ screens we consume products: are \u201cfed\u201d information, images, videos, short and long pieces of information all the time, on the news, social media, etc. Every single thing is at arm\u2019s length (literally), just a *click* away: information, product, print, photo, \u2026 everything beautiful and ugly, available and accessible. Art, replicated, multiplied, \u201cfree\u201d. Same with porn, and fighting. Surveillance is invasive and \u201cnormalised\u201d. For instance, online, we give in quite voluntarily to different forms of surveillance, because it looks rational and desirable and it looks like we have choice. In fact, we are recognised as workers and consumers by Tech. The image shown is the one I utilise to demonstrate\/ illustrate parts of the multi-layered problem of deciphering true and false needs which poses perhaps more and more of a problem than before because of technological tendencies towards infinity.
\n\u2018Everything is functioning\u2019- says Heidegger, but also: \u2018All our relationships have become merely technical ones.\u2019 (Der Spiegel Interview, published after his death, 1976). Today, the values of the Enlightenment bombarded with items according to technological interests instead of our own. This is no longer \u201crational\u201d to Marcuse in his critique of the Enlightenment \u2018One-Dimensional Man\u2019 (1964).
\nIt is valuable to look into ideas such Tech reproducing 1-Dimensional thought in individuals and society as a consequence of \u201cintrojection\u201d from the outside (a psychoanalytic notion to be examined). Technology and mediated learning would cause a problem for 18th century Rousseau, but the modern-day Rousseau-inspired educational theorists: we hold on to the idea of an analytic over synthetic approach to education. Whether there are true or false needs at all, is also a question to address.
\nThe writing is in the form of a dialogue, online. This is how the forum proceeds:
\nACT 0: Positions.
\nACT I: The Paradox of Technology.
\nACT II: Deciphering True and False Needs.
\nACT III: More critique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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