Ontological implications

16. The Cartesian Split

This timeline/image is available in Canvas Files: "newsciencetimeline.pdf"

• According to the Cartesian Split (which is known, now, to NOT be the case)
  • Object(tivity) v. Subject(ivity)
    • There's science
      • On the "Technology" side: Science/ Logic/ Reason/ Progress/ developing "civilization"
      • AND Environmental concerns/Nuclear fears
    • There's faith;
      • On the "Humanities" side: Art/Religion/History/Literature AND Anti-technology/
      • Anti-establishment/Impractical/ Cultural hegemony/ Elitist/ aesthetics
    • New Media might well be about reuniting technology & humanities.
    • BUT, if left alone, New Media exacerbates the split.

• Techies have to shift interest from structure of information to the conceptual meanings in information.
• Humies have to learn to master and control the potentialities of New Media.

Concept 16 Analysis article:

"A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom."
<https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/technology/generative-ai-chatgpt-investments.html>

Want to learn more?

Meghan O’Gieblyn. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning. NY: Doubleday, 2021.

Yuval Noah Harari. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Harper-Collins, 2017.

Tom Nichols. Death of Expertise : The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters. Oxford UP, 2017.