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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