Final Project
December 9, 2022Do a deep dive into biohacking and present your findings regarding the overall aims and goals of the people who engage in it and present the most promising, frightening, disturbing elements of this sub-culture. To define biohacking, one must separate the words bio and hacking. Bio is related to the science of life and living organisms while hacking is related to identifying weaknesses to gain access to personal or organizational data. When you put them together to the formation of biohacking, it means exactly what it sounds like. Identifying weaknesses in the body and hacking it in order to make…
Mini Project 3
Mini Project 3 Examine the notion of the gift in Sandel. Does it just reduce to some idea that the unnatural is bad or that we’re “playing God,” in manipulating our children’s genetics? Or, even to the…
What Defines One’s Identity
What constitutes your identity over time? That is, what makes it that you are the person who, for example, graduated from high school or had that specific 5th birthday that you had? When I approach the question…
My Experience Quitting Social Media + What I’ve Learned
Did you already quit social media for blog post 4? Compose a project which incorporates your continuing experience with this lack. How much time was saved? What have you noticed about your attention? Does it feel like…
Quitting Social Media
Start a project (which you’d continue into your mini-project 2) in which you quit social media for some period of time. Quitting social media has always been a thing that I’ve thought about seriously doing because I…
The Problem with Overproduction
There are many reasons why the over production of cheap goods isn’t good for society. As Marcuse says, “We are again confronted with one of the most vexing aspects of advanced industrial civilization: the rational character of…
The Inaccuracies Evident in Heidegger’s Agreed Definition of Technology
The standard definition of technology, Heidegger says is correct. But, it’s not true. Why not? The standard definition of technology is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes in human life, especially in industry. Technology can…
Technology in Relation to Classical Greek Art
Towards the end of The Question Concerning Technology, Heidegger draws a parallel between technology and classical Greek art to emphasize the similarity they have in the bringing forth of essence, or in other words, pure truth. He…
Defining Technology
What’s technology? Who cares/Why should anyone care how “technology” is defined? Technology has been the cornerstone of many societies even before the existence of humankind. To fully understand the meaning of technology, one must understand the meaning…
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