Techno Redemption (WAS Re: M&D c50 The Golem)

[alice wellintown]

That is, the claim, mere hyperbole, is utterly false. Good reading
otherwise.


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:02 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com>wrote:

> I never respond to anything I don't read with care. I read the article.
> It's bullshit.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:24 PM, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> What isn't true? Read the article before you go off half-cocked. If you
>> can't get institutional access I'll email it to you. She's writing from
>> within the context of "American Studies" and making the case that that
>> particular discipline within the Academy is situated to add a uniquely
>> interdisciplinary perspective to all the numerous studies which
>> have considered the issue, not that many scholars haven't written about it.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Thu, Apr 4, 2013 9:34 am
>> Subject: Re: Techno Redemption (WAS Re: M&D c50 The Golem)
>>
>>  This simply isn't true. American scholars have studied this matter in
>> great depth. Moreover,  the issue of stewardship is an essential part of
>> the study of technics in America, and in nearly every department at
>> Universities in America. the ethics, the ideological forces embedded in
>> technics is the focus of intense scholarship. I can provide a long list of
>> the books I've read on this. Most of these are common on syllabi at
>> Amrfican colleges.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:34 AM, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Slow and Low Progress," or Why American Studies Should Do Technology
>>> *Author: *de la Peña, Carolyn
>>> *Publication info: *American Quarterly 58. 3 (Sep 2006): 915-941,981.
>>>
>>> This essay suggests that scholars in American studies have something to
>>> learn from Mary Shelley. We in the United States frequently tell stories of
>>> technological redemption and technological damnation. We do not, however,
>>> spend much time considering stories of technological stewardship. A legacy
>>> of positivism has embedded our political, social, and cultural systems with
>>> a disturbing patina of technological "neutrality." And, in many ways, we as
>>> scholars have contributed to this legacy of positivism by failing to
>>> critique technology as both substance and ideology in American cultural
>>> life. The field of American studies has largely left questions of
>>> technology to others, in spite of our early leadership in innovative
>>> methods of technological analysis and cultural critique. And while
>>> discipline-based inquiries into technology have been immensely useful at
>>> revealing particular histories and consequences of American technology,
>>> they have not been primarily focused on issues of diversity, equity, and
>>> justice that are fundamental to our field. Nor have they been written with
>>> a particular focus on interdisciplinary connections that embed everyday
>>> actions within their larger political and cultural systems
>>>
>>>
>>>  -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
>>> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> Sent: Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:47 pm
>>> Subject: Re: M&D c50 The Golem
>>>
>>>
>>>  “The function of science fiction is not only to predict the future, but
>>> to prevent it."   Ray Bradbury
>>> *
>>> *On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, wrote:
>>>
>>>> A' and it's worth pointing out that if Doc Frankenstein would've just
>>>> cut the monster a little slack and exercised a little responsibility for
>>>> his creation, things might have turned out better. Is it too late? I'd like
>>>> to know.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>>> To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
>>>> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>>> Sent: Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:09 pm
>>>> Subject: Re: M&D c50 The Golem
>>>>
>>>> Mary Shelly resurrected the Golem most nobly. And it still has legs.
>>>>
>>>>  Frankenstein is about hubris, as is the Golem.
>>>> Technology is Modern Hubris.
>>>>
>>>>
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