Notes

• The orientation of technology, is it going into the space race, or going down to the earth, like the ancient salt-mine ladder

• Illich: the moment in which technology is not anymore instrument and we become the instruments of the system

• technological instrumentality circulates our body and we are seeing world only through the mediated instruments
• convivial tools: give each person who uses them the greatest opportunity to enrich the environment
• decolonization as a way to find conviviality of tools, rethink technology, recover the complexity
• “The matter and the size of the ladder showing signs of the work of human hands that had a very important role in the making of their world”
• “This world of relationalities and use-values…one can only be humbled by it”

[!NOTE] Summary We are instrumentalized Decolonization as a way to find conviviality of tools The matter and the size of the ladder showing signs of the work of human hands We are humbled by the relationalities

• Media archeology (Michel Foucault)
  • material of this photo
  • how it’s circulated -

• Karen Barad

• “Modern technology has a specific way of working by producing rarefied realities…the purification and rarefication of reality creates both a focus and a blindness…it creates an artificial reality…reality under the sign of the artifice”
• “A life lived within the proliferation of rarefied realities is a non-relational life…the wellbeing of this life is always at risk,…and has to be assisted (and upon being hurt: medicalized).”
• A frontier of no beyond, negation of the beyond

• “You can see this ..negation of the beyond int he epistemic and aesthetic territories of the West that deny the possibility of the an out”

• “to regain the proportion of things …needs a different kind of methodology relating to modernity: not rejecting it wholesale, but looking at the scale of things and at relations rather than objects.”
• “rethinking in terms of scale, as opposed to infinite growth, emerges as a political and philosophical task that is still to be taken up today”

[!NOTE] Title Realize our limit, even the best of us cannot think through the negative consequences especially indirect ones. Such as dominance of cars that morphed the city planning, use of electricity that is not enough for all, etc

“A frontier with no beyond”

To regain the proportion of things is therefore an urgent task…looking at the scale of things and relations rather than objects

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Further reading

• [[04_Reading_Notes/xx]]