Ontological implications

16. The Cartesian Split

This timeline/image is available on Sakai, resources, "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.

Article for Concept Application Note:

"Does ‘Creative’ Work Free You From Drudgery, or Just Security?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/magazine/creative-work-corporations.html

Want to learn more?

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.