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## How Technology Changes Us

The contribution of Don Ihde: 

1.wedding between Phenomenology and American pragmatism 

2.offering a language to analyse the structure of the various ways in which technologies can organise human world relations (Multistability)

3.makes a distinction between microperception (sensory perception : amplification/reduction ) and macroperception (how we make sense of the world) 

Continental Philosophy - holds very negative, romantic reactionary approach 

Verbeek's critism: too remote from practices, too remote from actual technological developments 

"Materiality of Technology" - inspired by Meleau-Ponty (focus on human perception)
-more concret 
-study how technologies play a role in our perception/ how to change our perception / how we can also see new things with the that we could not see (example: infrared photographs) X alienate us from the wood! 


Post-phenomenology: human-world relations 

intentionality: "We cannot just hear, we always hear something; we cannot just see, we see something"

"Post-phenomenology is keeping up the ambition to think about human-world relations and the structure of the relation between humans and the world around us but not to somhow make sure that there is some kind of an emphasis on originality of natural perception and we should be careful that and then not to let science and technology interfere too much." 


### Being 

"Having been created by God?"

as a verb: to be

"coming into being"; "to be revealed"; "coming from what's hidden"

as a noun: Being 

God = source of being/ the highest being 

Modern science: being object opposed to a subject (interpretation)

Heiddeger: Technology as being -a source of raw materials that is there for your manipulation.  ("The world is what it is for us in terms of what we can make out of it")

exception : "Will not to will"; "Will to power"

Every encounter is yet another expression of will to power. "He could not even make distinction between the Holocaust and agricultural techniques because they were all just embodiments of that will to power that we exert over reality"

### Nostagic preference for older techniques

Wooden windmill - Don: "It's way too abstract and nostagic!"

Therefore- Post-phenomenology ! (to distinct himself from classic/nostagic view of technology)

-> to help us understand technology, the things, the material objects in the world around us. 

> about material objects 
(typically about ideas, words)

>embodied relation: see though your glasses not at them. (senory relation to the world)

> how can we understand how technology shapes what it means to be human and what it means to live in a technological culture. 

>opposed to instrumentalist idea of technology 

>move beyond subject-object distinction (the modernist view after modern science)


### Material Hermeneutics 

"hermeneutics interpretation is not something that only happens in our mind. It's something that we do, something practical, something that's linked to materiality, to object, to things" 

e.g. Telescope is not just a neutral instrument that help Galileo see the moon.  it changed the way which Galileo understood the moon and how scientists see themselves as observers. 


### Translation

Mediaion only makes sense in the context of humans that makes sense of the mediations. 

-> you can only understand relation between human well if you take into account technology 


