Term 2 Week 11 Review some aspects on the last project

After reviewing our project in the session, we found some interesting things in some new aspects.

The development of technology has allowed boundaries to be broken in all fields, and the emergence of computer art is one of those boundary breakers, which combines art and technology. And even greater boundary breakthroughs are in dimensional space, even in man and man, man and nature, man and machinery. 

Once again we supposed whether, in an evolving future, technology will bring us to facilitate progress or to stand still or regress. Will there be a future in which people can communicate with each other without the need for verbal output to understand each other's meaning? Will people be combined with machines? Like cyborgs, will humans become a combination of machines and ordinary humans in some areas?

We also discuss whether, in the future, people will remain individuals or whether they will become a collective without individuals (i.e. there will be no more individual privacy, everything will be shared) and under that environment, whether this is still the ideal state of society?

Jane Bennett mentioned in Vibrant Matter:

if human culture is inextricably enmeshed with vibrant, nonhuman agencies, and if human intentionality can be agentic only if accompanied by a vast entourage of nonhumans, then it seems that the appropriate unit of analysis for democratic theory is neither the individual human nor an exclusively human collective but the (ontologically heterogeneous) ‘public’ coalescing around a problem” (108).

This will likely be the case in the future, and the relationship between the individual and the collective will need to be explored and examined further at that time.

Reference:

cultivating alternatives. 2013. Summary: Vibrant Matter by Jane Bennett. [online] Available at: <https://cultivatingalternatives.com/2013/11/28/summary-vibrant-matter-by-jane-bennett/> [Accessed 24 January 2022].