Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismTechnoculture!Techno Romanticism? It might solve the problem of organicism. It might provide a place to begin politically. The trick would be to isolate the role of technology in the production of culture. [1] My hunch is that those materially engaged in such production would be most likely to think politically about its effects. Thomas Spence, the shoemaker. William Blake, the engraver. Equiano, the sailor. Mary Robinson, the actress. Not labor but the technologies that constrain and administrate it. [2] Organicism breeds daffodils. Technology builds cages--and worlds. Notes1. See Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man (Boston: MIT, 1994). 2. As for instance the sea-faring ship. See Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker,The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston: Beacon, 2000). Navigation |