scholarly journals Law and Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology: Prolegomenon to Future Law Librarianship

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Douglas Callister
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Gasoline Station ◽  
Current Information ◽  
The World ◽  
German Philosopher

Following World War II, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger offered one of the most potent criticisms of technology and modern life. His nightmare is a world whose essence has been reduced to the functional equivalent of “a giant gasoline station, an energy source for modern technology and industry. This relation of man to the world [is] in principle a technical one . . . . [It is] altogether alien to former ages and histories.” For Heidegger, the problem is not technology itself, but the technical mode of thinking that has accompanied it. Such a viewpoint of the world is a useful paradigm to consider humanity’s relationship to law in the current information environment, which is increasingly technical in Heidegger’s sense of the term.Heidegger’s warning that a technical approach to thinking about the world obscures its true essence is directly applicable to the effects of current (as well as former) information technologies that provide access to law. While technology enhances accessibility and utility of law, technology also obscures law’s fundamental grounding in experience and language, thereby eviscerating its transformative power. The paper explains the nature of Heidegger’s criticisms of technology and modern life and examines the appropriateness of their application to the current information environment, especially in light of Heidegger’s early affiliation with Nazism and his subsequent denunciation of technologicism and “technological thinking.” The paper applies Heidegger’s criticisms to the modern legal information environment with particular reference to application of technology to subjugate the law to the status of an “information resource” devoted to various ends. Finally, the paper considers the implications for law librarianship in the current information environment.This article first appeared in 99 Law Library Journal 285-305 (2007) as part of "Symposium: Legal Information and the Development of American Law: Further Thinking about the Thoughts of Robert C. Berring."

scholarly journals Violent Memory: Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-48
Author(s):  
Netty Mattar
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
World War ◽  
Postwar Japan ◽  
Symbolic Resources ◽  
Mnemonic Devices ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World

Modern information technologies have radically transfigured human experience. The extensive use of mnemonic devices, for instance, has redefined the subject by externalizing aspects of inner consciousness. These transformations involve the incorporeal but deeply felt, violent dislocations of human experience, traumas that are grounded in reality but which challenge symbolic resources because they are difficult to articulate. I am interested in how the unseen wounding of mnemonic intervention is registered in the “impossible” language of speculative fiction (SF). SF is both rooted in the “real” and “estranged” from reality, and thus able to give form to impossible injuries. This paper argues that Haruki Murakami uses the mode of SF in his novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, to explore how mnemonic substitutes interfere with the complex process of remembering World War II in Japan. I will demonstrate how, through SF, Murakami is able to give form to an unseen crisis of memory in postwar Japan, a crisis marked by the unspeakable shock of war and by the trauma that results from the intrusion of artificial memories upon one’s consciousness of history.

scholarly journals Time for changes: Global information trends and prospects

2016 ◽  
pp. 3-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yakov Shrayberg
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Threatening Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Analytical Review

The journal version of the analytical review presented at the Second International Professional Forum “Crimea-2016”. Threatening ‘information explosion’ and ‘information collapse’, information addiction, information security, and other problems of information society are discussed. The author also explores the issue of the so called ‘information revolutions’, and analyzes the status of book publishing in Russia and the world. Five key trends that, in IFLA experts’ opinion, are to change the information environment are listed. Special attention is given to the information technologies used in libraries.

scholarly journals Electronic Publication of Scholarly Information in Law: A View from the United States

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Danner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Electronic Publication ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
The World ◽  
User Centered

This article examines the potential effects of the developing user-centered, networked information environment on scholarly communication in law. By “user-centered, networked information environment,” I mean the emerging environment for legal research and scholarship, in which most seekers and users of legal information will have ready desktop access to a networked computer and to applications that will allow them to communicate with colleagues around the world and enable them to retrieve increasing amounts of the information they need to be productive directly via the Internet, without needing to rely on locally held print sources.

scholarly journals Building-in-Place

PhaenEx ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
RANDALL TEAL
Keyword(s):  
Energy Source ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Preliminary Design ◽  
Gasoline Station ◽  
Fold Structure ◽  
The World ◽  
Design Students

Martin Heidegger’s Discourse on Thinking lays out a troubling view of the world which holds true today much as it did at the time of the speech: "The world now appears as an object open to the attacks of calculative thought, attacks that nothing is believed able any longer to resist. Nature becomes a gigantic gasoline station, an energy source for modern technology and industry. This relation of man to the world as such, in principle a technical one, developed in the seventeenth century first and only in Europe. It long remained unknown in other continents, and it was altogether alien to former ages and histories" (50). As an architecture professor in an age of modern technology, I believe it critical that design students cultivate an ability to see more comprehensively and learn how to think more meditatively (as Heidegger later suggests). Coming into a state of attunement with context, culture, and environment must be considered to be the most basic criteria for building in the world, as these are the elements that preserve the feeling and identity of ‘place’. Considering being-in-the-world as a stance that necessarily moves more toward complex understandings of the environment, this paper outlines an effort given to the pedagogical implementation of Martin Heidegger’s description of the phenomenon of ‘world’, the three-fold structure for Being-in as a means of teaching students a more attuned comportment toward place, building, and site. I will discuss how these ideas were used in an preliminary design exercise, then clarified and elaborated through a lecture on Terrance Malick’s film The New World.

scholarly journals Style Dominants of Didar Amantay Prose

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-481
Author(s):  
Almira K. Kalieva
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Web Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Internet Portals ◽  
The City ◽  
Intensive Development

The intensive development of information technologies, web resources and literature, Internet portals and Internet publications dictate the demand for small-scale prose genres. New literary trends are reflected in Kazakh national prose in the books of the writer, publicist, screenwriter Didar Amantay. The ecology of consciousness, the modern life of the city, the philosophical issues of life are the current topics of his prose and essay writing. As a representative of postmodernism and poststructuralism, Amantay combines elements of different styles and trends of the past in his work, often with an ironic effect, develops a philosophical direction and a critical analysis of culture and society. A characteristic feature of his style of narration is that the writer freely moves from the comparison of images and motives in the national literatures of the world to the analysis of the Kazakh one, addressing his works of art to an exquisite, intellectual reader.

scholarly journals Use of Modern Technology When Teaching Chemistry Disciplines to Pharmaceutical Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Melnyk
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Network Resources ◽  
Teaching Chemistry ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
Special Information ◽  
The University ◽  
Independent Work

Abstract. The introduction of computer technologies into the educational process creates a special information environment that motivates students to learn chemistry disciplines. This facilitates understanding and solving many intelligent tasks, contributes to better understanding and illustrating chemical laws and phenomena. The use of modern information technologies takes students’ independent work to a new level, where both network resources of the university and publicly available Internet resources play a significant role. Responsible use of gadgets transforms them from cheating tools into the powerful source of obtaining necessary information to solve the tasks.

scholarly journals Reading in the era of globalization and information technologies in contemporary society

2019 ◽  
pp. 10-15
Author(s):  
Irasema Cruz-Cruz ◽  
María Magdalena Gómez-Sántiz
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Wide Scope ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Support Students

We must analyze literacy in general and in particular the so-called digital literacy as a sociocultural problem linked to the formation of individuals. Every social or technological change has always demanded a profound transformation from humanity, due to the vertiginous advances that have occurred; Throughout history, man has seen the need to transform some practices. Reading has been one of the fundamental axes because the human being has required addressing and being able to face the challenges facing globalization and information technologies. The deep and rapid transformations in all fields of modern life are something that characterizes the world in which we live. The new forms of communication have accelerated, a revolution of wide scope that revolves around the transformation of the mechanisms of production, diffusion and access to information, as well as in the expressive and representative languages of culture and knowledge. In universities, they must identify the areas that need to be strengthened to support students in carrying out the readings responsibly.

Engineering knowledge: philosophy and ponstructive meanig

2018 ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
V. I. Onoprienko
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Engineering ◽  
Practical Rationality ◽  
Engineering Knowledge ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Area

An expansion of information technologies in the world today is caused by progress of instrumental knowledge. It has been arisen a special technological area of knowledge engineering, which is related to practical rationality and experts’ knowledge for solving urgent problems of science and practice.

REGULATORY AND LEGAL SUPPORT OF INFORMATION SECURITY IN UKRAINE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Malashko ◽  
◽  
Serhii Yesimov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Information Security ◽  
National Security ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Association Agreement ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Initial Stage

The article examines trends in the development of legal regulation of information security in Ukraine in the context of the implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union. The current information legislation and regulations on information security are analyzed. The tendencies in the legal regulation of information security that took place at the initial stage of the formation of information legislation are revealed. Based on the factors that took place before the adoption of the Doctrine of information security of Ukraine, the laws of Ukraine “On the basic principles of ensuring the cybersecurity of Ukraine”, “On the national security of Ukraine”, in the context of the current legislation, based on the methodology of legal forecasting, it is concluded that in the future the development of normative legal information security will be developed on the basis of by-laws, mainly at the departmental level.

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