POL 507 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deus Ex, Factory System, Historical Materialism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 507
• Professor: Robert Marshall

Document Summary

Pol 507 lecture 2: does technology drive history; and. Revolutions around ideas, the economy/market, and the religious. Sense of technology being god given to prevent/resolve a crisis. The late paleontologist stephen j gould one wrote that the history of life is a series of stable states punctuated at rare intervals by major events that occur with great rapidity and help to establish the next stable era. One could make a case that a similar framework could be applied to the history of technology. The questions (cid:862)does te(cid:272)h(cid:374)olog(cid:455) d(cid:396)i(cid:448)e histo(cid:396)(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:449)as fi(cid:396)st posed (cid:271)(cid:455) ka(cid:396)l ma(cid:396)(cid:454) i(cid:374) the poverty of. Philosophy in when he stated: (cid:862)the hand mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam mill with the industrial capitalist. (cid:863) New forms of knowledge became instruments to carry out a massive transformation of society, politics, culture. Republican view of progress: advancing knowledge, scientific, to empower human kind and establish a more just and peaceful society.