{"id":2981,"date":"2013-06-05T08:08:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T08:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2013-06-05T08:14:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T08:14:44","slug":"our-world-turned-inside-out-the-impact-of-technology-on-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/circlesandsquares\/2013\/06\/05\/our-world-turned-inside-out-the-impact-of-technology-on-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Our world turned inside-out: The impact of technology on humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My student and friend Nam Hyun-Woo sent me this remarkable photograph today. I think it is a clear tribute to our age and to the impact of technology, of mechanical reproduction, on self and identity. We see here so bluntly the danger of narcissism, and the ontological <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mise_en_abyme\">mise-en-abyme<\/a> that results from the increasing inexpensive and seductive technologies of images.<\/p>\n<p>We \u00a0also can derive some hints as to the ultimate dark consequences of spending our lives looking into screens as if our life depended on it. Perhaps, in the not too distant future, that will be true in a sense we never imagined possible. Let us use our imaginations now, while we still have them and have not outsourced them to more reliable technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Emanuel Pastreich<br \/>\nJune 5, 2013<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3354\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2013-06-05_-nam-hyun-woo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3354\" alt=\"Photograph by Nam Hyun-Woo (June, 2013) \" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2013-06-05_-nam-hyun-woo.jpg?w=630\" width=\"630\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2013-06-05_-nam-hyun-woo.jpg 960w, https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2013-06-05_-nam-hyun-woo-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2013-06-05_-nam-hyun-woo-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Nam Hyun-Woo (June, 2013)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My student and friend Nam Hyun-Woo sent me this remarkable photograph today. I think it is a clear tribute to our age and to the impact of technology, of mechanical reproduction, on self and identity. We see here so bluntly the danger of narcissism, and the ontological mise-en-abyme that results from the increasing inexpensive and &#8230; <a title=\"Our world turned inside-out: The impact of technology on humanity\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/circlesandsquares\/2013\/06\/05\/our-world-turned-inside-out-the-impact-of-technology-on-humanity\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Our world turned inside-out: The impact of technology on humanity\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}