Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Consumer Capitalism, American Revolution, Realplayer

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B
• Professor: Warren Steele

Document Summary

Contrast this passage with the singularity as a technified myth (means for political mobilization: find a basis for a useful counter narrative that undercuts stories of destiny. Although people are right to point out that modern technology are quickly developing, they are wrong to assume that the singularity is the only future possible nor the only future worth considering. Put another way, what might the world look like if we manage to develop everything that we"re striving for, and life only gets worse: this scenario is just as likely as the singularity, if not more. To think through these possibilities involves breaking teleology. Requires that we put back prevailing conceptions of who we are. Constructing better models to help us describe what both time is and isn"t. If we continue to believe the temporal models that we use right now, nothing will change. Ideological conception of time under capital that we know as teleology reinforces that things are always changing.