STS200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Alarmism, Logocentrism, Technoscience
29 Mar 2017
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Postman of tv and/or digital technologies according to. Can learn through random access: postman: Tv demands attention to images; traditional learning demands attention to language. Education is a form of acculturation and is supposed to change the way students think, not adapt to the way students think. No prerequisites (random access), no perplexity (gratification), and no exposition. Skepticism: leverage: tools, technology, law-like explanation: predictable universal statements, method: hypotheses organized around experimentation, epistemological status: status of the kind of knowledge you have. Grant: knowing as a kind of making, co-penetration of arts and sciences, critical theory of technology, leverage, augmentation: add-on. Epistemological status of mythological explanation according to. Wittgenstein: myth gives explanatory power, does not tend toward material mastery over the world, myth is a provider of social cohesion: Explains your situation in a social hierarchy. Effects of agriculture on society"s relationship with nature according to. Kover: agriculture tends to conceptualize nature as chaotic and evil, domestication (house training, slaves):
