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…

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…

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…

Here I will try to offer a concise and effective definition of technology and several of its features. The difficulty of this comes from technology’s soluble nature. Upon adoption, successful technologies become essential to both worldviews and ways of life. They retreat into obscurity as part…