Sigmoid Flexure Mundus Marx

[Terrance]

Richard Fiero wrote:
> 
> Terrance wrote:
> >.....The Right of Death & Power Over Life.....
> 
> I'd disagree with the final thought of the post by Terrance, ".
> . . technologies create the ways in which people perceive
> reality . . ." This is not central to what Marx is saying but
> may be a distant analog to what he is saying.

Thanks, Richard. 

This is the "final thought" on that post: (i tried to tie freud's
thoughts on world war and the state to current events, foucault--because
we have just finished reading M&D and because we have been discussing
hegemony and the state, C.P Snow because pynchon starts his luddite
essay with snow's famous "two cultures" and because the the two cultures
division is not only about science and art but about economics and
technology, so to carlyle (technology) because i have hammered away at
adams and the virgin and the dynamo already and carlyle also notes the
deity transmogrification to mechanism and machine and to get my hammer
in there i included sandburg's hammer, and marx for the economic where i
stressed the technolocical--hand mill feudalism and steam mill
capitalism, and mcluahan who is very much a mixed bag unlike most of the
rest because he is not a "marxist" or luddite and i think Pynchon makes
limited use of him (communication and mechanical bride) because of this,
and back to plato of course because here we have the final thought that
you argue is only a distant analog, but i see as central to marx, that
is, technology changes the ways in which we perceive reality, the
language with which we give it meaning, indeed it creates these and by
examining these as they unwind and evolve with the culture we can can
gain insights into our social relations and thinking. 

Marx understood that apart from their economic implications 
>technologies (hand-mill & steam-mill) technologies create the 
>ways in which people perceive reality, and that such ways are 
>the key to understanding diverse forms of social and mental life.