SOCI10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Terra Nullius, Herbert Marcuse, Geoffrey Blainey
4 Aug 2018
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Myth that it was an empty land terra nullius , but aborigines were already here, but because they were considered uncivilized, they were no one. Definition of civilized (in other words, european) others people. White immigration policy 1901: only of the right race white. Geoffrey blainey warned against asianiation of australia". Bc it"s part of the function of things. Think about how this enforces a problem on the ultimate structure of things. Electronic tools, systems, devices or resources that produce store or create data. It"s a social process because humanity is a part of it we affect it and it affect us. Karl marx is the first to develop technological determinism" that social change is only motored by technology. The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist . Tech is independent of social, political, economic forces. We can"t control it, it occurs very rapidly and we have no say and cannot intervene.
