The story of the losing discs is one of those stories about the fault line fast changing technolgies bring to the world. it is impossible to keep up. it is useless (and impossible) to homogenouify different systems. The result is that every feature of modern life is criss cross with technologies of different ages, and different purposes. it cold be no other way. As long as this is the case (and it will be as long a technology changes rapidily) then one will be faced with a simple choice. Use thetechnology to the maxim of its potential and risk cock up. or else police the entire system, worry about every detail, and restricting access at each and every point. One thereby mimises the chance of one kind of risk by restricting what is allowed across the entire system while also opening oneself up to all the abuses of power this restriction can cause.
Not much of a choice really.
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- The aim is these blogs is to give a practical series of examples and off the cuff pieces of analysis which fit in to a far larger scale project of making Philosophy Political. Why does this matter? Because as Foucault says, one of them oddities of thinking is the extra silent thoughts one thinks without knowing it - call them assumptions or prejudicesor what you like. My aim in the pieces here, but also on the website, is then to reweave these assumptions, or at least aim to show how they might be unpicked. Hence the importance of the dictionary which is by far the most important entry here, and really deserves a blog of its own (it is called noted on media language)...
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