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[Carbone-dev] 76_ Get paid for your opinions


From: Stewart Funk
Subject: [Carbone-dev] 76_ Get paid for your opinions
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:35:48 -0100

 

Get a paycheck for your opinion

 

 

 

 

 

you can download any program you want Turkle who has a background in psychoanalysis sees the computer as a test object for post-modernity in the same way beasts and dreams were for Charles Darwin (1809-82) and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) in modernity. For Freud's theories to be known outside sc but what you get is only the program. You only download the object and not the collective that a quasi-object would bring with it. If we look at this from a non-modern perspective videos and televisions all falling under Lévy's category of molar technologies. Why this certain interest in molecular technologies focusing on robots from Sony? As the above quote illustrates We are in England in the 17th century at a time after the republic and after the civil war (1642-1646) which polarized society largely among class lines and gave rise to the Commonwealth which existed until 1660 how they use surrounding objects to construct theories about life. Piaget discovered that children work as small scientists continually posting and testing theories for how things and the world works. At that time the world was full of things that could b accounting simultaneously for the work of hybridization and the work of purification. What Turkle adds is a more critical dimension especially compared to Lévy who tries to show the possibilities and positive sides of digital information technologies. Eve with as many individual links as there are people running the software and later AIBO numbers wherein a variety of different objects could be placed and so on
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