Reflection
Notes and Reflection from the Seminar:
On Technology and its Relationship with Nature, Culture, and Governance and the Importance of the Concepts of Cosmotécnica and Technodiversity.
Technology or Technologies?
There is a homogenization of our relationship with technology, which is expressed through utopian or dystopian discourses, outlining a series of idyllic or catastrophic futures that seem taken from science fiction.
From the domination of artificial intelligence to massive unemployment. Many people try to understand our future through science fiction.
This is problematic because it prevents us from concretely analyzing our situation; we are not able to analyze the situation we are in.
"Today we are guided by a single discourse of technology, the discourse of Silicon Valley, which unfolds fantasies, lies, and prophecies with which we must be careful." - Yuk Hui
Viveiros de Castro, for example, says: instead of multiculturalism, a multinaturalism. The former implies the idea that nature is one and what varies are people's cultural perspectives. It is possible, however, to invert the question: Can there be many natures?
Nature is related to other concepts such as technology, artificiality, culture, etc. So, if there are many natures, will there be many technologies?
"Not just as a collection of tools or machines, but a complex system involving techniques, processes, and organizational structures. Technology also encompasses the ways in which humans interact with and are shaped by these artifacts."
"Technology is a system. It entails far more than its individual material components. Technology involves organization, procedures, symbols, new words, equations, and, most of all, a mindset."
"The new conquerors are the cyberneticians: sectarians of order passionate about reason." (Tiqqun, 2015)
How to Become Ungovernable in Cybernetics
Cybernetics is the new science of governance, of sovereignty.
We live in a new science and a new definition of the human being, their relationship with the world and themselves.
Within the Western dualistic paradigm of subject-world, soul-body, individual-society.
There is no longer the human being and their environment, but a system-being.
Just as political economy produced a homo economicus within industrialized states, cybernetics is producing its new humanity.
At the same time, communication technologies are being implemented that will not only cover the Earth with their network but also shape the very texture of the world in which we live.
Self avaluation:
I would rate my participation in class as a 7/10. Although I couldn’t attend the second class of the semester and thus missed out on participating in the exercises. I really enjoyed the lectures. Even though the topic interests me since one of my focus areas in projects is technological systems and cybernetics, I think that I could have done more for this seminar.
Reflection
Notes and Reflection from the Seminar:
On Technology and its Relationship with Nature, Culture, and Governance and the Importance of the Concepts of Cosmotécnica and Technodiversity.
Technology or Technologies?
There is a homogenization of our relationship with technology, which is expressed through utopian or dystopian discourses, outlining a series of idyllic or catastrophic futures that seem taken from science fiction.
From the domination of artificial intelligence to massive unemployment. Many people try to understand our future through science fiction.
This is problematic because it prevents us from concretely analyzing our situation; we are not able to analyze the situation we are in.
"Today we are guided by a single discourse of technology, the discourse of Silicon Valley, which unfolds fantasies, lies, and prophecies with which we must be careful." - Yuk Hui
Viveiros de Castro, for example, says: instead of multiculturalism, a multinaturalism. The former implies the idea that nature is one and what varies are people's cultural perspectives. It is possible, however, to invert the question: Can there be many natures?
Nature is related to other concepts such as technology, artificiality, culture, etc. So, if there are many natures, will there be many technologies?
"Not just as a collection of tools or machines, but a complex system involving techniques, processes, and organizational structures. Technology also encompasses the ways in which humans interact with and are shaped by these artifacts."
"Technology is a system. It entails far more than its individual material components. Technology involves organization, procedures, symbols, new words, equations, and, most of all, a mindset."
"The new conquerors are the cyberneticians: sectarians of order passionate about reason." (Tiqqun, 2015)
How to Become Ungovernable in Cybernetics
Cybernetics is the new science of governance, of sovereignty.
We live in a new science and a new definition of the human being, their relationship with the world and themselves.
Within the Western dualistic paradigm of subject-world, soul-body, individual-society.
There is no longer the human being and their environment, but a system-being.
Just as political economy produced a homo economicus within industrialized states, cybernetics is producing its new humanity.
At the same time, communication technologies are being implemented that will not only cover the Earth with their network but also shape the very texture of the world in which we live.
Self avaluation:
I would rate my participation in class as a 7/10. Although I couldn’t attend the second class of the semester and thus missed out on participating in the exercises. I really enjoyed the lectures. Even though the topic interests me since one of my focus areas in projects is technological systems and cybernetics, I think that I could have done more for this seminar.