indeed our relation to technology is complex...I think the quote below states some of the factors which make me wonder about if there is any room for difference/change in society...
global modernity > has seen the greatest extension of both mass participation in politics > and technological development, and we would thus expect greatly enhanced > control over our own lives to be the result. At this millenial > fin-de-siecle, however, we are confronted not only with weapons of > destruction which could wipe humanity from the face of the earth, but > with the technological integration of this destructive capacity in > systems that are only questionably under human control and that seem to > exhibit tendencies toward autonomy, even if this is thus far only > observable at a systemic level. there are a mass of factors which allow the current view of the world as common sense. that "naturally" spaces hire out for whoever puts up the money, that somehow the awareness of how our tools and webs of perception are partly militarily derived prevents us from making moral and political judgements on social relations. Chris Byrne wrote: > > As to "Defence Diversification": isn't this more about "swords into > ploughshares" rather than a defense procurement exercise? It's ironic > too that many of the tools new media artists use have roots in > military technologies: computer graphics, the Internet, CRT displays, > etc. > > I'm not condoning the use of CCA for this conference: however I do > think that our relationship with the "military industrial complex" is > more complicated than sometimes we would like to admit. > ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
