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Philosophy of Technology
We do not know what technology is, yet we share an accumulated knowledge of technologies. With this premise as our starting point, we will set out to answer the following questions: What is technology? What is our (human) relationship to technology? How do material and form affect our relationship to technology? We will approach these questions through a series of weekly readings organized by theme. A situated reading of technology will help us better understand how the making and use of objects and things to achieve specific ends (our preliminary definition of technology) is a force of social, political, ethical, and biological change. This suggests that while a given technology embodies a constellation of values (though often latent and hidden), our relation to those values is not fixed. How we structure our relationship to technology and how technologies organize, order, structure our relationship to each other will be questions that animate our readings