Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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hermeneutic

the interpretation of a technology is a matter of hermeneutics--we have to find out what the technology means to its users if we are to understand it

—p.21 The Meaning of Technology (14) by Graeme Kirkpatrick
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technology as enframing

[...] As members of a society in which extensive technology use has made access to goods, like illumination, simple and convenient, we have lost our appreciation of the centrality of revelatory experience and of our own activity in determining that experience. We have closed on possibilities of rev…

—p.20 Technology and Social Power (1) by Graeme Kirkpatrick
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anodyne

Defined merely as the capacity to affect others, power is an anodyne concept, lacking sufficient purchase to single out significant instances as important.

this is kind of a weird way of using anodyne (very divorced from its original meaning) but I can sort of see it

—p.9 Technology and Social Power (1) by Graeme Kirkpatrick
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