Date: Mon, 25 Apr 94 12:24:19 EST
From: "P.K. Jamison, Primary Care, 317/278-0340" <JAMISONP-AT-ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: RE: Recapitulation
To: technology-AT-world.std.com


This discussion about "humanity" and "technology" continues to intrigue me,
and I wonder if besides the Rethinking Technologies book is anyone has
read a book by Werner Marx on Ethos and the Lifeworld, in which he explores
the possibility of situating discourse about  mortality, the "world", and
humanity in the project of compassion, rather than reason.  Also, I am
wondering about the different "views" of technology, and not only
different technologies, as expressed by Borges and Paz, in contrast to
say, the German School.  Is what it means to be human, that discourse,
based on our experiences and if so, ou experiences with "technologies"
(both as philosophies and things).  I have been attempting recently to
come to some acceptance of the contradictions involved in all of this, but
finding it hard when I see some of the abuses of technology.  On the one hand,
I want to embrace different views and come to recognize the complexity
of technology, but is this understanding only driven by reason, or can
it be driven by compassion...at which time I feel it is neccessary to
talk about humanity and lifeworlds.  This rambles...I know...but
I am curious to others ideas....and frustrations.  pkj.