Vanderburg
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Noam Chomsky
Willem Vanderburg
vanderburg - summary
tools, machines and technology
- what is the relationship between a technology, tool and machine
- autonomy
- marx
economics
- national economy
- corporations export costs
- global scale
- techniques role
summary
- power
- 2 systems
- coercion
- culture
- culture sows the seeds of its own demise
- abstraction through mediation - exploitation
two worlds of power relations
- determinism
- freedom
determinism
- alienation
- the opposite of freedom
- being determined
- humans in the state of nature
- power relations are based on physical coercion
Freedom
- symbolization
- creativity
- power relations are based on social coercion
culture
- A complex system of social coercion
- cultural unity - dialectical tension
- central myth
- myth of progress, competition, and work
- hierachy of values
- sacred and profane
- meaning and value
Values
- context values
- performance values
Context values
- meta-conscious knowledge
- experience
- enfoldness
- dynamic equilibrium?
Performance values
- efficiency
- optimization
- rationalism
- input output ratios
- division of labour
hierarchy of values
- sacred - nation state - manifested through technique
- profane - sex manifested through - beating the system
enfoldness
- embodiement
- disembodiment
- forground vs. background
- full, partial and narrow embodiment
- jolts per minute
abstraction
- autonomy
- mediation
- self augmentation
- complexity
complexity
- multiplificative effects
- emergent properties
- recipricol causation
- nonlinear feedback loops
- design exemplars
- analytical exemplars
- externalization
- internalization
- objectification
division of labour
- horizontial
- vertical
- stratification
- managers/ controlers
ear eye hierarchy
mass society
- intergration propoganda
- advertising
- revised cycle
- statistical morality/ public vs. private opinion
- service, manufacturing, primary sector
- industrialization/ bureaucracy/ technostructure
- capital/ information
values
- material scarcity - mass consumption/ monitarism
- health - medical industrial complex
- physical security - military industrial complex
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