Author: Johnny Date: To: hackmeeting Subject: Re: [Hackmeeting] Facebook: il "Mi piace" arriva nel Mondo Reale,
esperimento in Israele
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 22:47 +0200, engineer167 wrote: > ok . ma per esempio i pattern di progettazione sono artefatti
> tecnologici ? insomma, una costruzione sicuramente non e' neutra , ma
> la scienza delle costruzioni lo è ? Sembrerebbe che nemmeno il metodo scientifico sia "neutro". Quoting from
"One-dimensional man", Herbert Marcuse, 1964:
<< The principles of modern science were a priori structured in such a
way that they could serve as conceptual instruments for a universe of
self-propelling, productive control; theoretical operationalism came to
correspond to practical operationalism. The scientific method which led
to the ever-more-effective domination of nature thus came to provide the
pure concepts as well as the instrumentalities for the
ever-more-effective domination of man by man through the domination of
nature. Theoretical reason, remaining pure and neutral, entered into the
service of practical reason. The merger proved beneficial to both.
Today, domination perpetuates and extends itself not only through
technology but as technology, and the latter provides the great
legitimation of the expanding political power, which absorbs all spheres
of culture.
In this universe, technology also provides the great rationalization of
the unfreedom of man and demonstrates the "technical" impossibility of
being autonomous, of determining one's own life. For this unfreedom
appears neither as irrational nor as political, but rather as submission
to the technical apparatus which enlarges the comforts of life and
increases the productivity of labor. Technological rationality thus
protects rather than cancels the legitimacy of domination, and the
instrumentalist horizon of reason opens on a rationally totalitarian
society. >>
