(course for ArtScience, 2009\/10)<\/p>\n
In daily life, if people demonstrate a general opinion about technology, it tends to be either very negative or very positive. Technology can be for example mentioned as something that is in opposition to human nature, as something that distorts, is unhealthy and which can be profoundly alienating. On the other hand, one of the defining characteristics of humans is the fact that humans make and use tools, and animals don’t. So technology can be that which makes humans human, while at the same time being considered as something unnatural and foreign to human nature.
\nIn this course we will read and discuss a selection of texts that try to cover a spectrum of opinions about humans and technology that is as wide as possible. We will go all the way from Ludd and the Unabomber to the ideas of Transhumanists and Extropians. We will talk about responsability and about the idea of technological development as a force that is outside of human control. We will talk about the consequences of such ideas for art. Texts will be discussed by amongst others Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jack Burnham, Jacques Ellul, Gilbert Simondon, F.M.Esfandiary, Peter Sloterdijk, David Edgerton, Martin Heidegger and Andr\u00e9 Leroi-Gourhan.
\nIn week two and three of this course, students will be asked to prepare a presentation about one of the texts selected.<\/p>\n
introduction: avant-garde art and technology<\/strong><\/p>\n Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, ‘Vision in Motion’ Gyorgy Kepes (ed.), ‘The New Landscape in Art and Science’, Jack Burnham, \u201cBeyond Modern Sculpture\u201d, Braziller, New York, 1968.<\/p>\n current technological development as detrimental to humanity<\/strong><\/p>\n Jacques Ellul, ‘The Technological Bluff’, Ted Kaczynski, ‘Industrial Society and its Future (Unabomber’s Manifesto)’, John Zerzan, ‘Against Technology’ transhumanism<\/strong><\/p>\n F.M.Esfandiary, ‘Upwingers, a Futurist Manifesto’, Hans Moravec, ‘Robot’ Jos de Mul, ‘Transhumanism, The Convergence of Evolution, Humanism and Information Technology’, from: Rewers, E., and S\u00f3jki, J. (ed.), ‘Man within Culture at the Treshold of the 21st Century’, Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora, Poznan, 2001, pp. 101-122.<\/p>\n Peter Sloterdijk, ‘Rules for the Human Zoo : a response to the Letter on Humanism’, calling progress into question<\/strong><\/p>\n David Edgerton, ‘The Shock of the Old, Technology and Global History Since 1900’, Peter Bentley, ‘Climbing Through Complexity Ceilings’, technology as the nature of man<\/strong><\/p>\n Martin Heidegger, ‘The Question Concerning Technology’, Andr\u00e9 Leroi-Gourhan, ‘Gesture and Speech’, Alberto Toscano, ‘Technical Culture and the limits of Interaction, A Note on Simondon’, Gilbert Simondon, ‘On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects’ Humberto Maturana, ‘Metadesign’, films:<\/strong><\/p>\n ‘The Betrayal by Technology: A Portrait of Jacques Ellul’ ‘Das Netz’ (‘The Net’), film by Lutz Dammbeck, 2003. ‘Technocalyps’, film by Frank Theys, 2006. (course for ArtScience, 2009\/10) In daily life, if people demonstrate a general opinion about technology, it tends to be either very negative or very positive. Technology can be for example mentioned as something that is in opposition to human nature, as something that distorts, is unhealthy and which can be profoundly alienating. On the other … Continue reading Writings about Technology<\/span>
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\nPaul Theobald, Chicago, 1956.<\/p>\n\n
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\ntrans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley.
\nEerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1990.
\n(originally Jacques Ellul, ‘Le bluff technologique’, Hachette, Paris, 1988.<\/p>\n\n
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\nPopular Library, New York, 1973<\/p>\n\n
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\ntranslation published in: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2009, volume 27, pp 12-28
\n(originally in “Nicht gerettet: Versuche nach Heidegger”, Suhrkamp, 2001, pp 302-333)<\/p>\n\n
\nOxford University Press, New York, 2007.<\/p>\n\n
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\nfrom: Anthony Burke, Therese Tierney (ed.),
\n‘Network Practices, New Strategies in Architecture and Design’,
\nPrinceton Architectural Press, New York, 2007.<\/p>\n\n
\nin: Martin Heidegger, ‘Basic Writings’\u00a0 ??? publicitatie ??\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 pp 287-317
\n(originally ‘Die Frage der Technik’, in: Martin Heidegger, ‘Vortr\u00e4ge und Aufs\u00e4tze’, G\u00fcnther Neske Verlag, Pfullingen, 1954)<\/p>\n\n
\ntrans. Anna Bostock Berger
\nMIT press, Boston, 1993.
\n(originally Andr\u00e9 Leroi-Gourhan, ‘Le Geste et la Parole’, Albin Michel, Paris, 1964)<\/p>\n\n
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\nfrom: Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder (ed.), ‘Interact or Die’, V2_Publishing \/ Nai Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007, pp 198-205<\/p>\n
\ntranslation by Ninian Mellamphy, University of Western Ontario, London (Ontario), 1980 (Unpublished)
\n(original “Du Mode d’Existence des Objets Techniques’, Aubier, Editions Montaigne, Paris, 1958)<\/p>\n\n
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\nfrom: Joke Brouwer, Carla Hoekendijk (ed), ‘Technomorphica’,
\nV2_publishing, Rotterdam, 1997, pp 171-203.<\/p>\n\n
\ndocumentary by Jan van Boeckel\/ReRun Produkties, 1992.
\nonline at www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n
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