Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Avital Ronell, Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Heidegger
5 Oct 2016
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Publically funded projects take people to mars and back. Mars is interested in taking people on a mission to mars only, therefore they will not be coming back all of which will be filmed and edited into a reality tv shows. Mars lacks everything to support human existence including breathable air. The future of our species is as much in space as it is on earth. Although humanity was born on the earth, it was never meant to die here. The danger that is always inherent in believing that we have a destiny. What is most important about a philosopher is not their biography, but rather their philosopher. His thinking was so original it completely changed what thinking is or how it could be. About ethics and framework about what it means to be ethical. Students critically engage with his ideas, only to reject them. His students are fundamentally unable to forgive the future.
