added by Isabelle Levent · updated 2y ago
Do Artifacts Have Politics?
- Indeed, philosophers of technology have argued that technology is the essential human activity. Ernst Kapp said that human existence is always and everywhere bound up in a relationship to tools.
from To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist by Saffron Huang
Tanuj added
- I submit that we have two big biases when we talk about technology. First, we think about it too much in terms of tools and recipes, when really we should think about it more in terms of process knowledge and technical experience. Second, most of us focus too much on the digital world and not enough on the industrial world. Our obsession with the d... See more
from How Technology Grows (a Restatement of Definite Optimism)
Britt Gage and added
- Art has a social purpose [and] art belongs to the people. It’s not something that is hanging out there that has no connection with the needs of man. And art is unashamedly, unembarrassingly, if there is such a word, social. It is political; it is economic. The total life of man is reflected in his art.