Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Date of Degree
2-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Program
Digital Humanities
Advisor
Kevin L. Ferguson
Subject Categories
Continental Philosophy | Digital Humanities
Keywords
Philosophy of Technology, Digital Humanities, Critical Theory of Technology, Technocriticism
Abstract
Against technological ubiquity, the philosopher, the ecologist, the theologian, the psychologist, the radical, the reactionary, and the poet have each responded. This analysis seeks to explicate the nature of such responses, as well as to explore their contemporary form and elucidate what those presently publishing might offer as programs toward the future. In order to do this, what follows is broken up into a series of sections, each focused on what I have perceived to be the foremost themes present throughout technological critique: becoming, freedom, identity, faith, space, time, and progress. Prior to such thematic excavations, this analysis offers a two-fold introduction. The first component is focused on the role of philosophy amidst technological ubiquity, with the following segment centered on the meaning of “technology” and its underlying essence. Written from a digital humanist perspective, this analysis is intended as an accessible artifact for my field and concludes with a brief advancement of the need for critical approaches to technological tools such as those discussed herein, as well as an explanation of the importance of convivial and conjunctive spaces through which new relationships to and applications of technology might be devised.
Recommended Citation
Dodd, Hampton A., "The True and Only Technic: Technological Ubiquity and its Critics, Heretics, and Zealots" (2024). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5697