Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

does navigating a technological culture
What
today? Chapter 10 explores how in
require
1970s, writer and critic John Berger looked
the
the contemporary role of art as a way of
at
the aesthetics and politics at play
comprehending
the world. He argued that we comprehend
in
not necessarily by looking at paintings, but
this,
looking at ourselves looking at artworks in a
by
today the technological lens is
Similarly,
into focus a world that nobody has
bringing
before. What can we learn by exploring
seen
ways of knowing? Can we examine not
new
technologies themselves, but how we
just
with them, in order to understand
interact
about ourselves and about the time
something
which we live?
in
terms: James Bridle New
Search
of seeing
ways
and writer James Bridle has been at the
Artist
of exploring what these new ways of
forefront
might look like. Bridle created a series
seeing
podcasts modelled on the ethos of Berger’s
of
series, that explore knowing and
television
in a technological world. All four episodes
being
available using the QR code, as are links to
are
case studies on topics of knowledge and
pertinent
of the ideas explored by Bridle is the
One
of digital technologies. The internet
materiality
feel invisible—WiFi is in the air, data
may
in the Cloud—but there is an elaborate
is
that makes it possible. For
infrastructure
the submarine cable system, in
example,
below, is decidedly material and
Figure3.3
An elaborate network of fibre optic
tangible.
deep underwater, it is painstakingly
cables
and maintained to enable our global
installed
The pattern of these cables
connectedness.
both historical and contemporary
reveals
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I. Scope
I.1 Technological culture and knowledge
technology that you may choose to explore further.
way nobody had seen before.
power relations.
Figure 3.3 Map of the global network of submarine communications cables as of 2019
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