Ten Paradoxes of Technology

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Feenberg ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Real World ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Interconnected Network ◽  
The Real ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Causal Laws ◽  
Technological World

Though we may be competent at using many technologies, most of what we think we know about technology in general is false. Our error stems from the everyday conception of things as separate from each other and from us. In reality technologies belong to an interconnected network the nodes of which cannot exist independently qua technologies. What is more we tend to see technologies as quasi-natural objects, but they are just as much social as natural, just as much determined by the meanings we give them as by the causal laws that rule over their powers. The errors of common sense have political consequences in domains such as, development, medicine and environmental policy. In this paper I summarize many of the conclusions philosophy of technology has reached reflecting on the reality of our technological world. These conclusions appear as paradoxes judged from our everyday perspective.This paper presents a philosophy of technology. It draws on what we have learnt in the last 30 years as we abandoned old Heideggerian and positivist notions and faced the real world of technology. It turns out that most of our common sense ideas about technology are wrong. This is why I have put my ten propositions in the form of paradoxes, although I use the word loosely here to refer to the counter-intuitive nature of much of what we know about technology.

scholarly journals Quartet: On the Theme of to Portray is to Betray

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-117
Author(s):  
Paul Magee
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Real World ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Crack Open ◽  
The Real ◽  
Dinner Table ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Common ◽  
Communicative Power

Art does not deceive its readers with an illusion of reality, as the common-sense notion has it, but rather pretends to deceive them. For the communicative power of the work of art lies precisely in the fact that we recognise its artificiality, its status as a work within a given genre, following certain conventions, set in a particular frame. What the work really points to, beyond the page, is the existence and actions of a creative consciousness, as that consciousness works through a given set of symbols to express itself. For reading is all about experiencing another’s mind. In the lack. Which makes it a matter of desire. My purpose in the following is to use literature to crack open the everyday, to write about neurosis and psychosis, how they write their way into the real world around us, the dinner table, this novel, a Greek tragedy, I mean Oedipus complex.

scholarly journals Timelessness Strictly Inside the Quantum Realm

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 772
Author(s):  
Knud Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
The Real ◽  
Classical World ◽  
Quantum Objects ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Double Slit

Time is one of the undisputed foundations of our life in the real world. Here it is argued that inside small isolated quantum systems, time does not pass as we are used to, and it is primarily in this sense that quantum objects enjoy only limited reality. Quantum systems, which we know, are embedded in the everyday classical world. Their preparation as well as their measurement-phases leave durable records and traces in the entropy of the environment. The Landauer Principle then gives a quantitative threshold for irreversibility. With double slit experiments and tunneling as paradigmatic examples, it is proposed that a label of timelessness offers clues for rendering a Copenhagen-type interpretation of quantum physics more “realistic” and acceptable by providing a coarse but viable link from the fundamental quantum realm to the classical world which humans directly experience.

From Evidence-Based Practice in Suicide Prevention to the Real World: How Long is the Leap?

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
M. Pompili
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Real World ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Primary Care Providers ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Shed Light

This presentation aims to shed light on effective suicide prevention activities that often are missing in the everyday clinical practice. Too often in fact suicidal individuals seek help from mental health professionals that nevertheless fail to recognize suicide risk. For instance, on average, 45% of suicide victims had contact with primary care providers within 1 month of suicide. Likewise, the real world often presents challenges that impair proper utilization of the evidence-based practice. Also, the alarming suicide rates around the world points to lack of effective preventive understanding of suicide. This presentation will present key point of the evidence-based practice, how to implement such approach and how to overcome difficulties in the real world. It will deal with the state of the art of preventive measures of suicide, what the missing elements are and how to make the most from personal experience without risking relying on clinician's intuition in management of suicidal individuals.

scholarly journals Conexões entre grafos e matrizes na modelagem de problemas matemáticos

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Larissa Melchiors Furlan ◽  
Mylena Roehrs ◽  
Glauber Rodrigues de Quadros
Keyword(s):  
Directed Graph ◽  
Real World ◽  
Adjacency Matrix ◽  
Directed Graphs ◽  
The Real ◽  
Mathematical World ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Mathematical Problems ◽  
Everyday Problems

Graphs theory is very important in the mathematical world as an excellent way of connecting with the real world. By using the theory of directed graphs it is possible to transform many of the everyday problems into mathematical problems, so as to make an exact study in each case. In this work we explore the matrices related to the various types of graphs, such as the vertex matrix, which is associated with a directed graph, and the adjacency matrix. Moreover, matrices of multi-step connections are constructed so as to separate the various blades between the vertices of a directed graph. Then, we will construct some applications of those results in the form of examples.

scholarly journals PRECISA-SE DE PROFESSORES PARA A TERRA DE NINGUÉM

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 450
Author(s):  
Kyldes Batista Vicente ◽  
Fábio D’Abadia de Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Technology Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
The Real ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The World ◽  
No Man's Land ◽  
Technological World

O mundo da Internet não pode mais continuar sendo a Terra de Ninguém. É preciso que nós, professores, deixemos, de uma vez por todas, todo e qualquer temor em relação ao mundo tecnológico que nos rodeia e que ocupemos o lugar que nele está destinado a nós:  o de orientadores desta transição do mundo real para o virtual. Acreditamos que o papel do professor não é falar de tecnologia, mas de humanidade.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Tecnologia; educação; professor.     ABSTRACT The world of the Internet cannot continue being treated as The no man’s land. It’s urgent that we, teachers, put aside, once and for all, any fear of facing the technological world that surrounds us and that we occupy the place that is designed for us: the guider  of the transition from the real world to the virtual one. We believe that the role of the teacher is not to talk about technology but about humanity.    KEYWORDS: Technology; education; teacher.     RESUMEN Internet no puede seguir siendo la Tierra de Nadie. Es necesario que los profesores no tengamos miedo al mundo tecnoclógico que nos rodea y que cumplamos la tarea de orientadores de la transición de lo real para lo virtual. Creemos que al profesor no le cabe hablar de tecnología, sino de humanidad.   PALABRAS-CLAVE: Tecnología; educación; profesor. 

scholarly journals FILOSOFIJA IR LITERATŪRA: DVI SUSILIEJIMO KRYPTYS

Problemos ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 125-142
Author(s):  
Leo Luks
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Real World ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Previous Article ◽  
Maurice Blanchot ◽  
The Real ◽  
Philosophy And Literature ◽  
Sense Of Reality

Straipsnyje „Filosofijos ir literatūros susiliejimas nihilistiniame mąstyme“ (Problemos 2010, 77) rašiau, kad postmetafizinė filosofija turėtų suintensyvinti dialogą su literatūra ir galų gale su ja susilieti. Šiame straipsnyje siūlomos dvi galimos šio susiliejimo kryptys: 1) ribų tarp realybės ir išmonės išnykimas. Kartu su G. Vattimo atsisakę korespondentinės tiesos teorijos, prieisime prie išvados apie principinę galimybę bet kuriam naratyvui būti teisingam (angl. truthful). Nihilistiniam mąstymui būdingas silpnesnis realybės jausmas, skeptiškas požiūris į sveiko proto ar natūralistinę poziciją. Tokia situacija,aprašyta Nietzsche’s, skirtį tarp realaus pasaulio ir net neįtikėtinų pasakų daro iš principo neįmanomą. Iš to plaukia keletas toli siekiančių epistemologinių ir etinių konsekvencijų. 2) Susiliedama su literatūra, nihilistinė filosofija ieško kalbos, galinčios artikuliuoti niekį, reprezentuoti tai, kas nereprezentuojama. Straipsnyje šis siekis analizuojamas pasitelkiant postmodernaus diskurso sąvokas – literatūros erdvė, nerimas. Remiamasi Maurice Blanchot, Rolando Barthe’o ir Jeano-François Lyotard’o kūriniais. Susiliedama su literatūra nihilistinė filosofija gali gyvuoti ir neturėdama ką pasakyti.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: nihilizmas, hermeneutika, pramanytumas, niekis, postmodernus.Philosophy and Literature: Two Lines of FusionLeo Luks SummaryIn the article “The Fusion of Philosophy and Literature in Nihilist Thought” (Problemos 2010, 77) I argued that post-metaphysical philosophy should intensify its dialogue with literature to the point of their eventual fusion. In this paper I will start from the conclusions of my previous article and will highlight two possible lines of this fusion:1) The disappearance of the boundary between reality and fiction. Once we let go of the correspondencetheory of truth, as Vattimo recommends, we will arrive at the principled possibility of the truthfulness of any and all narratives. Nihilist thought is characterised by a weakened sense of reality, a renouncement of common sense and naturalism. This condition, described by Nietzsche,where making a distinction between the real world and tall tales is impossible in principle, has several far-reaching epistemological and ethical consequences.2) In its fusion with literature, nihilist thought seeks for a language to articulate the nothing, to represent the unrepresentable. In the paper I will analyse this pursuit by way of the concepts of postmodernity, the space of literature, and anxiety. I will draw on the views of Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes and Jean-François Lyotard.By fusing with literature, nihilist philosophy can continue in a situation where it has nothing to say.Keywords: nihilism, hermeneutics, fictionality, nothingness, postmodern.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gilmore
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Affective States ◽  
States Of Affairs ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The One

This chapter identifies a general dilemma in descriptive and explanatory claims about the arts. On the one side is the pull of continuity, in which responses to the contents of fictions and other imagined creations are said to be modeled (morally, affectively, epistemically) on responses to ordinary real-world states of affairs. On the other is the pull of discontinuity, in which such engagements are posed as offering potentially sui generis sorts of experiences that resist assimilation or reduction to those encountered in the everyday. This chapter identifies the place of the book’s discontinuity thesis within that general tension, and discusses the thesis’s main rivals: (1) those who argue that our affective states are not the same kind across encounters with fictions and the real world; and (2) those who argue for continuity or invariance of affective states across those contexts.

Lessons out of Chaos

2011 ◽  
pp. 124-137
Author(s):  
Anthony P. Glascock ◽  
David M. Kutzik
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Real World ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Real ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Behavioral Monitoring ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Everyday Living

The lessons learned from nine years of the testing of a behavioral monitoring system—the Everyday Living Monitoring System (ELMS) — outside the laboratory in the real world are discussed. Initially, the real world was perceived as messy and filled with noise that just delayed and complicated the testing and development of the system. However, over time, it became clear that without embracing the chaos of the world and listening very carefully to its noise, the monitoring system could not be successfully moved from the laboratory to the real world. Specific lessons learned at each stage of development and testing are discussed, as well as the challenges that are associated with the actual commercialization of the system.

A Response to Kevin Schilbrack

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-106
Author(s):  
Timothy Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Real World ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
The Real ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
The Common ◽  
Kevin Schilbrack ◽  
Modern Myth ◽  
The Way

Abstract Kevin Schilbrack has pointed out that in my publications over a period from 1994 to 2007 there are some discrepancies in my arguments about some categories, especially “politics” and “culture.” In some earlier research on Dalits and Buddhists in Maharashtra I could not locate “religion,” so I attempted, unsuccessfully, to develop a tripartite conceptual substitution for “religion”—ritual, politics and soteriology—for purposes of description and analysis. However, though this was repeated in Ideology, I have come to realize that it contradicts a more fundamental argument which is tacit all the way through Ideology, for example in the critique of constructions of “religion-and-society.” It has become progressively clearer to me that the religion-politics binary is one of a series which rhetorically invents both domains (fundamentally religion-nonreligion) as mutually parasitic, while simultaneously transforming the nonreligious secular domains into the common sense order of things. Religion acts as the arena of “faith” and “belief ” in contrast to the supposed objective secular knowledge of the “real” world. I have pursued this latter argument most recently in Religion and Politics in International Relations: the Modern Myth, which shows how writers in that discipline have transformed “religion” into a global agent of malice threatening the benignly rational secular state.

scholarly journals Getting Real: Work, Coolness and Nobokov’s Despair

Hawliyat ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 41-68
Author(s):  
Peter Williams
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Work Memory ◽  
The Self ◽  
States Of Mind ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Real Work

Modernist aesthetics emphasised the representation of states of mind over the "blessed matter" of the everyday real. This shift from "substance to subtlety" licensed modernist protagonists like Hermann Karlovich from Vladimir Nabokov's Despair to engage in a narcissism that ignored real world contingencies in order to legitimate an aesthetic transcendence based upon inspiration rather than work, memory over creative reconstruction and lies instead of truths. The dissociative heat of Karlovich 's literary inspiration lacks the cool, remote thought Nabokov considered necessary for the associative work of artistic creation. His effort to communicate beyond the self fails because he never understands that while art may be an inspired lie, life is not. Nabokov therefore provides a critique of those strains of modernist aesthetics that understood the real as merely a set conventions rather than a constellation offorces that have the power to disrupt and overturn the best of human intentions.

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