Nathanael Bassett

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Disconnection

What is it to be disconnected, at a time when we praise connectivity? Is it a reactionary type of isolationism? Is it a regressive anti-social libertarianism? Negative reactions to technology, community and sociality are typically demonized in our technophilliac culture, but I want to explore a few…

Defining Technology: Clarifications

My previous attempt to define technology as the means of effecting strata and the command of environments was to give a rudimentary framework for the material agency, non-human intentionality, and the expansion of “technology” beyond merely artifacts. There are a…

Who’s Afraid of Technological Determinism?

In my last post, I attempted to provide a definition of technology that laid a framework for what I think are necessary future work in technology studies. Simply put, this definition identified technology as both a means to transform strata, and the act…