Thursday, December 06, 2007

12/6 summary




Aristotle
-body is the tool of 'soul'. without soul, we can't control body..
-body is the slave of soul

Marx
-human interrupt nature system, made something.
-they are organs of the human brain, created by the human hand.

: explicit their claims concerning the difference between hand-tools and large-scale machines or systems of machinery.


Kapp
-veiwed technology as a form of 'organ projection'.
-we don't know well about our body system more than from 19th biology.

Bergson
-if our organs are natural instruments, our instruments must then be artificial organs.

:all technology simply extends the body.


Mcluhan
-content can be changed by the medium
-content have to be changed to fit to the medium


technology expand their impact to take the nature's place so the medium can't change the content,nature, it have to be fited to content.