Post by account_disabled on Mar 9, 2024 3:41:04 GMT
Our era, an era of great technological development, can be read as that of Prometheus or Dionysus. Two divinities, two different ways of understanding this development. Prometheus the God bringer of knowledge , who steals the fire of knowledge to give it to men. In this of him stealing fire and donating it, he can also be seen as the God who offers men the possibility of dominating nature, through knowledge. Dionysus, on the other hand, the creative God , of inspiration, is the bearer of creativity, and is also the God of energies and natural flows, and therefore represents that creative side of man in line with these dynamics. Two ways of understanding technology , two ways of living our time.
In this article we will talk about: The modern era and the turning point in Germany Phone Number technology Prometheus: the era of cold modernity Prometheus and technology: reflections on our era Prometheism: radical techno-scientific identity movement of our era Will, superhumanity, and Europe in the era of techno-scientific knowledge Postmodernity: the age of Dionysus The era of Dionysus: the god of inspiration and vitality Techno-magicians: the Dionysian in our age Dionysus or Prometheus: the divine is also present in our era Bibliography The modern era and the turning point in technology What is achieved with modernity is a true transition of an era. From the Middle Ages , a period hastily and undeservedly declassified as the dark period of history, with its sacral, hierarchical, warrior dynamics, we moved on to the era of enlightenment, of the Goddess of reason, of the desacralization of knowledge .
This passage is reflected in all levels of human life and organization, and therefore also affects that of economic and technical development. Precisely with regard to technique, that change occurs between classical and modern technique , which Martin Heidegger had discussed in his reflections on the subject [1] . For Heidegger, while the classical technique unfolded within natural dynamics, exploiting the energies of the overall natural system and not going beyond, with the modern one instead man begins to store energies , creating a surplus that goes beyond the overall system, to purposes of exploitation of nature. With modernity, in particular with the advent of industrial society, through the spread of large industrial plants, looms, the steam engine, and then later with the advent of the electricity company, media such as TV and social network this movement that goes "beyond", beyond the basic organicity of nature and human life, takes over.
In this article we will talk about: The modern era and the turning point in Germany Phone Number technology Prometheus: the era of cold modernity Prometheus and technology: reflections on our era Prometheism: radical techno-scientific identity movement of our era Will, superhumanity, and Europe in the era of techno-scientific knowledge Postmodernity: the age of Dionysus The era of Dionysus: the god of inspiration and vitality Techno-magicians: the Dionysian in our age Dionysus or Prometheus: the divine is also present in our era Bibliography The modern era and the turning point in technology What is achieved with modernity is a true transition of an era. From the Middle Ages , a period hastily and undeservedly declassified as the dark period of history, with its sacral, hierarchical, warrior dynamics, we moved on to the era of enlightenment, of the Goddess of reason, of the desacralization of knowledge .
This passage is reflected in all levels of human life and organization, and therefore also affects that of economic and technical development. Precisely with regard to technique, that change occurs between classical and modern technique , which Martin Heidegger had discussed in his reflections on the subject [1] . For Heidegger, while the classical technique unfolded within natural dynamics, exploiting the energies of the overall natural system and not going beyond, with the modern one instead man begins to store energies , creating a surplus that goes beyond the overall system, to purposes of exploitation of nature. With modernity, in particular with the advent of industrial society, through the spread of large industrial plants, looms, the steam engine, and then later with the advent of the electricity company, media such as TV and social network this movement that goes "beyond", beyond the basic organicity of nature and human life, takes over.