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GROUP 1
PRESENTED BY
• INSTRUCTIONS;
• RATE THE EXTENT OF YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS USING OSGOOD SCALE YOU ARE
ALSO GIVEN SPACE TO WRITE ANY COMMENT TO FURTHER CLARIFY YOUR RESPONSE.
STATEMENTS AGREE/DISAGREE COMMENTS ( IF ANY)
1. TECHNOLOGY IS A MEANS TO AN END
3. POETRY IS TECHNOLOGY
• THE ESSENCE OF TECHNOLOGY CAN BE CAPTURED IN ITS DEFINITION. IN HIS TREATISE, THE QUESTION
CONCERNING TECHNOLOGY, MARTIN HEIDEGGER (1977) EXPLAINS THE TWO WIDELY EMBRACED
DEFINITIONS OF TECHNOLOGY
• 1.INSTRUMENTAL
• 2.ANTHROPOLOGIC
INSTRUMENTAL DEFINITION: TECHNOLOGY IS A MEANS
TO AN END
• TECHNOLOGY IS NOT AN END ITSELF, IT IS MEANS TO AN END. IN THIS CONTEXT, TECHNOLOGY IS VIEWED
AS A TOOL AVAILABLE TO INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND COMMUNITIES THAT DESIRE TO MAKE AN IMPACT
ON SOCIETY. HOW TECHNOLOGY IS USED VARIES FROM INDIVIDUAL TO INDIVIDUAL, GROUPS TO GROUPS,
AND COMMUNITIES ACCORDING TO THEIR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE FUNCTIONS, GOALS, AND
ASPIRATIONS . WHILE TECHNOLOGY IS OMNIPRESENT, KNOWING ITS FUNCTIONS REQUIRES PAYING
ATTENTION TO HOW HUMANS USE IT AS MEANS TO AN END. IN THIS SENSE, TECHNOLOGY IS AN
INSTRUMENT AIMED AT GETTING THINGS TO DONE
ANTHROPOLOGICAL DEFINITION: TECHNOLOGY IS A
HUMAN ACTIVITY
Johann
Christian
Friedrich
Hölderlin
• A GERMAN POET QUOTED BY HEIDEGGER SAID: “BUT WHERE DANGER IS GROWS THE
SAVING POWER ALSO (1977,P.14). FOLLOWING THIS THE SAVING POWER CAN BE
TRACED EXACTLY WHERE THE DANGER IS IN THE ESSENCE OF TECHNOLOGY. AS
MENTIONED , THIS ESSENCE IS NOT NEUTRAL AND BY NO MEANS ANYTHING
TECHNOLOGICAL. ALONG THIS LINE, HEIDEGGER PROPOSED ART AS THE SAVING AND
THE WAY OUT OF ENFRAMING “ AND ART WAS SIMPLY CALLED TECHNE. IT WAS THE
SINGLE, MANIFOLD REVEALING” (1977,P.18) HEIDEGGER SAW ART AS AN ACT OF THE
MIND
• TECHNE , THAT PROTECTED AND HAD A GREAT POWER OVER THE TRUTH, BY FOCUSING
ON ART, PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO SEE MORE CLEARLY HOW ART IS EMBEDDED IN NATURE.
ART ENCOURAGES HUMANS TO THINK LESS OF FROM CALCULATIVE STANDPOINT.
WHERE NATURE IS VIEWED AS AN ORDERED SYSTEM INSTEAD IT INSPIRES MEDITATIVE
THINKING WHERE NATURE IS SEEN AS AN ART AND THAT, IN ALL OF ART, NATURE IS
MOST POETIC HEIDEGGER ENCAPSULATED
• BECAUSE THE ESSENCE OF TECHNOLOGY IS NOTHING TECHNOLOGICAL, ESSENTIAL
REFLECTION UPON TECHNOLOGY AND DECISIVE CONFRONTATION WITH IT MUST
HAPPEN IN A REALM THAT IS, ON THE ONE HAND, THE ESSENCE OF TECHNOLOGY AND, ON
THE OTHER, FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT FROM IT . SYCH A REALM IS ART. BUT
CERTAINLY ONLY IF REFLECTION ON ART, FOR ITS PART, DOES NOT SHUT ITS EYES TO
THE CONSTELLATIONS OF TRUTH AFTER WHICH WE ARE QUESTIONING (1977,P. 19)
QUESTIONING AS THE PIETY OF THOUGHT
• INSTRUCTIONS :
• AFTER STUDYING THE FULL TEXT OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER THE QUESTIONS COMCERNING TECHNOLOGY
PDF. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
1. WHAT ARE THE THREE CONCEPTS REMAIN UNCLEAR OR DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND?
2. WHAT ARE THE THREE SIGNIFICANT INSIGHTS DID YOU GAIN IN STUDYING THIS TEXTS?
3. WHAT ARE THE THREE QUESTIONS DO YOU WANT TO ASK ABOUT THE TEXTS?
EXERCISE 3. ART SAVING POWER
INSTRUCTIONS:
HEIDEGGER EXPLAINED THAT ART HOLDS POWER THAT COULD SAVE HUMANS FROM THE DANGER OF BEING
CONSUMED BY TECHNOLOGY IN HIS WORDS. IN THIS ACTIVITY, FOCUS ON ART AS THE SAVING POWER OF
TECHNOLOGY. FORM OF GROUPS WITH 4 MEMBERS EACH AND LOOK FOR AN ARTWORK THAT REVEALS THE
HUMAN PERSONS IN THE MIDST OF TECHNOLOGY. DISCUSS THE ARTWORK IN RELATION TO THE GENERAL
CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN MARTIN HEIDEGGER THE QUESTION CONCERNING TECHNOLOGY, AND PRESENT
YOUR CHOSEN ARTWORK AND THE SUMMARY OF YOUR DISCUSSION IN FRONT OF THE CLASS
ASSIGNMENT 5. THE DANGERS OF TECHNOLOGY
• INSTRUCTIONS: READ THE ARTICLE BELOW. AFTER READING, WORK WITH A PARTNER AND ANSWER THE
QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW. WRITE YOUR ANSWER ON A SEPARATE PAPER
• PLEASE SEARCH : FACEBOOK SAYS 87MILLION MAY BE AFFECTED BY DATA PRIVACY SCANDAL
• BY. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
QUESTIONS
1. WHAT IS THIS DATA PRIVACY SCANDAL ALL ABOUT?
2. HOW DOES THIS FACEBOOK PRIVACY SCANDAL RELATE TO HEIDEGGER NOTION OF REVEALING OF
MODERN TECHNOLOGY AS CHALLENGING FORTH?
3. HOW FACEBOOK USERS ENFRAMED IN THIS PARTICULAR DATA PRIVACY SCANDAL?
4. HOW DO YOU THINK FACEBOOK CAN BE USED IN A WAY THAT IS MORE CONSISTENT WITH HEIDEGGERS
IDEA OF POIESIS OR A BRINGING FORTH OF TCHNOLOGY?
• 5. HOW CAN THE HEIDEGGERIAN NOTION OF QUESTIONING GUIDE FACEBOOK USERS TOWARD A
BENEFICIAL USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA?
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