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| 10.05.03 (3:47 pm) [edit] |
"It is not clear who makes and who is made in the relation between human and machine." (Harraway, pg. 313, CCR)
In todays society, with the increased popularity of technologies it is becoming less clear as to whom came first the human or the computer. Well obviously humans invented the computer (depending on what Sci-FI movies you believe), though increasingly whilst humans make machines...machines have more and more influence of what humans make.
These ideas come from the class discussion prompted by Katie's seminar, though in looking back through our blog I think the ideas relate well to the past discourse about humans and machines. Computers may not be able to control us yet (lars post 'control') but the more we use them, the more we want he upgrades, and the more our everyday lives become reliant on various technologies. In the same paragraph Harraway goes on to say that...
"there is no fundamental..ontological separation in our formal knowledge of machine and organism..."
For example much of my relationship with my flat-mate's relies on text messaging at the moment, due to our lack of proximity as I live at design. I know how they are and what they are up too only by phone and so my understanding of them is formed in this way. Ok so this may not be the best example, but at the moment the only way I know what's going on is by using technology - my flat-mates are reduced to texts.
(alice)
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