CUL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Posthumanism, Jargon, Smartphone

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Critical and Cultural Studies
• Course: CUL120
• Professor: All

Document Summary

* technoculture: the interdependence of technology and culture (shaw 2008) * technoculture-discourses that frames our understanding of culture and technology. * blurs the distinctions and boundaries between the two. * used to understand the nature of the relationship, the way it is framed in art, pop culture, life. * contested term, 1990s (andrew ross) way of engaging with technology that did not just simply respond. * a space in-between the praise or damn of technology in our culture. * post structuralist: technoculture is a discourse about the relationship between the relation ship. * humanist technology and culture as two different realms. * technology is: an object, a means to an end/a tool, a way to extend human agency (separation of humans and agents to help humans) * technology is just a tool, in terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important (bill gates)